Analysis of iron loss in hard disk drive spindle motors

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 33, Issue 5 PART 2, 1997, Pages 4089-4091

  Liu, Z J ^a   Bi, C ^a   Low, T S ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC MOTORS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERMANENT MAGNETS;

IRON LOSS; LOCAL FLUX DENSITY; PERMANENT MAGNET SPINDLE MOTORS;

HARD DISK STORAGE;

EID: 0031224438     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.619672     Document Type: Article

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