Wear and friction studies of contact recording interface with microfabricated heads

Wear

Volumn 202, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 60-67

  Li, Youlin ^a   Bhushan, Bharat ^a  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Diamond like carbon coatings; Failure mechanisms; Friction and wear of magnetic heads

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COATINGS; FRICTION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE; MAGNETIC RECORDING; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SURFACES; WEAR OF MATERIALS;

CONTACT RECORDING; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS; FRICTION COEFFICIENT; MICROFABRICATED HEADS; WEAR RATE;

MAGNETIC HEADS;

FRICTION; MAGNETIC RECORDING; WEAR;

EID: 0030436286     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0043-1648(96)07258-4     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. B. Bhushan, Tribology and Mechanics of Magnetic Storage Devices, Springer, New York, 2nd edn., 1996.
2. H. Hamilton, K. Goodson, C. Baldwin and R. Anderson, Contact perpendicular recording with integrated head/flexure, in G.G. Adams (ed.), Concepts in Contact Recording, TRIB-Vol. 3, ASME, New York, NY, 1991, pp. 13-23.
3. V.D. Khanna, Fly low only when necessary, in G.G. Adams (ed.), Concepts in Contact Recording, TRIB-Vol. 3, ASME, New York, NY, 1991, pp. 1-11.
4. J.U. Lemke and W.W. French, Information recording apparatus with a non-Newtonian liquid bearing, U.S. Patent 5 097 368, March 17, 1992.
5. J.U. Lemke and W.W. French, Information recording apparatus with a liquid bearing, U.S. Patent 5 193 046, March 9, 1993.
6. J.A. Wickert, D.N. Lambeth and W. Fang, Towards a micromachined dual slider and suspension assembly for contact recording, in G.G. Adams (ed.), Concepts in Contact Recording, TRIB-Vol. 3, ASME, New York, NY, 1991, pp. 27-39.
7. H. Hamilton, J. Magn. Soc. Jpn., 18, suppl. S1 (1994) 171.
8. B. Bhushan, B.K. Gupta and M.H. Azarian, Nanoindentation, microscratch, friction and wear studies of coatings for contact recording applications, Wear, 181-183 (1995) 743-758.
9. B. Bhushan and Y. Li, Wear studies of contact recording interface with a microfabricated head, J. Appl. Phys., 79 (1996) 5791-5793.
10. B.K. Gupta and B. Bhushan, Mechanical and tribological properties of hard carbon coatings for magnetic recording heads, Wear, 190 (1995) 110-122.
11. B. Bhushan and J. Ruan, Tribological performance of thin film amorphous carbon overcoats for magnetic recording rigid disks in various environments, Surf. Coat. Technol., 68-69 (1994) 644-650.
12. B. Bhushan et al., Friction and wear studies of magnetic thin-film rigid disks with glass-ceramic, glass and aluminium-magnesium substrates, Wear, 190 (1995) 44-59.
13. F.P. Bowden and D. Tabor, The Friction and Lubrication of Solids, Part I, Clarendon Press, Oxford, UK, 1950.
14. E. Rabinowicz, Friction and Wear of Materials, Wiley, New York, 1965.
15. P.J. Fallon, V.S. Veerasamy, C.A. Davis, J. Robertson, G.A.J. Amaratunga, W.I. Milne and J, Koskinen, Properties of filtered-ion-beam-deposited diamond-like carbon as a function of ion energy, Phys. Rev., B48 (1993) 4777-4782.
16. J.J. Cuomo, D.L. Pappas, R. Lossy, J.P. Doyle, J. Bruley, G.W. Di Bello and W. Krakow, Energetic carbon deposition at oblique angles, J. Vac. Sci. Technol., AI0 (1992) 3414-3418.
17. B. Bhushan, A.J. Kellock, N.H. Cho and W. Ager III, Characterization of chemical bonding and physical characteristics of diamond-like amorphous carbon and diamond films, J. Mater. Res., 7 (1992) 404-410.
18. A. Grill, V.V. Patel and B.S. Meyerson, Optical and tribological properties of heat-treated diamond-like carbon, J. Mater. Res., 5 (1990) 2531-2537.