Tribology of laser textured disks with thin overcoat

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 33, Issue 5 PART 1, 1997, Pages 3184-3186

  Wang, Run Han ^a,b   Raman, Vedantham ^a   Baumgart, Peter ^a   Spool, Alan M ^a   Deline, Vaughn ^a  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAM EFFECTS; MAGNETIC HEADS; STICTION; TEXTURES; TRIBOLOGY; WEAR OF MATERIALS;

LASER TEXTURED DISKS;

MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE;

EID: 0031223461     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.617885     Document Type: Article

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