The tribology of tri-pad sliders with hydrogenated and nitrogenated disks

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 32, Issue 5 PART 1, 1996, Pages 3654-3656

  Machcha, Ashok R ^a,b,c   McMillan, Thomas C ^a,b,c   Talke, F E ^a,b,c   Tang, Wing T ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Phase Metrics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; COATED MATERIALS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FRICTION; MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE; MAGNETIC FILM STORAGE; PERFORMANCE; RAMAN SCATTERING; STICTION; TRIBOLOGY; WEAR OF MATERIALS;

CONTACT START STOP TESTING; HYDROGENATED CARBON OVERCOATED DISKS; LORENTZIAN CURVE; NITROGENATED CARBON OVERCOATED DISKS; PROXIMITY RECORDING SLIDERS; TRI PAD SLIDERS; ZONE TEXTURING;

MAGNETIC HEADS;

EID: 0030247580     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.538718     Document Type: Article

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