Tribology of a solid fluorocarbon film on magnetic recording media

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 34, Issue 4 PART 1, 1998, Pages 1747-1749

  Karis, I E ^a,c   Tyndall, G W ^a   Crowder, M S ^b  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

^c MAXTOR CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluorocarbon film; Magnetic recording; Tribology; Vacuum deposition

Indexed keywords

FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; ION BEAMS; LUBRICANTS; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MONOMERS; STICTION; TRIBOLOGY; VACUUM DEPOSITED COATINGS;

ION BEAM LUBRICANTS (IBL); START STOP CYCLES;

MAGNETIC THIN FILMS;

EID: 0032115539     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.706692     Document Type: Article

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