Considerations in head-disk interface design for near contact recording

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Tribology Division, TRIB

Volumn 6, Issue , 1996, Pages 57-63

  Raman, Vedantham ^a   Jen, David H ^a   Ramirez, Michael L ^a   Chen, Pei C ^a   Gillis, Donald R ^a  

^a IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; DURABILITY; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LUBRICANTS; MAGNETIC HEADS; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MAGNETIC THIN FILM DEVICES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERFORMANCE; STICTION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TRIBOLOGY;

BUMP HEIGHT; FLYABILITY; HEAD DISK INTERFACE DESIGN; LUBRICANT THICKNESS; NEAR CONTACT RECORDING;

HARD DISK STORAGE;

EID: 0030399664     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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