Evaluation of amorphous diamond-like carbon-nitrogen films as wear protective coatings on thin film media and thin film head sliders

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 33, Issue 1 PART 2, 1997, Pages 926-931

  Sivertsen, John M ^a   Wang, Geng ^a   Chen, Ga Lane ^a   Judy, Jack H ^a  

^a SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS FILMS; CARBON; CHEMICAL BONDS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE; MAGNETIC HEADS; MAGNETIC RECORDING; PROTECTIVE COATINGS; SPUTTER DEPOSITION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TRIBOLOGY; WEAR RESISTANCE;

DIAMOND LIKE CARBON FILMS; HEAD DISK INTERFACE;

MAGNETIC THIN FILMS;

EID: 0030708213     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.560133     Document Type: Article

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