Issues on high-speed laser zone texturing of magnetic disk substrates with improved quality

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 34, Issue 4 PART 1, 1998, Pages 1807-1809

  Park, Hee K ^a,b   Kerstens, Pieter J M ^a   Baumgart, Peter ^a   Tarn, Andrew C ^a  

^a IBM   (United States)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Head media interface; Laser zone texturing; Magnetic disks; Nip disk manufacturing

Indexed keywords

INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LASER PULSES; LASERS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; PROCESS CONTROL; QUALITY CONTROL; SUBSTRATES; TEXTURES;

HIGH SPEED LASER ZONE TEXTURING; LASER BUMPS;

MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE;

EID: 0032117524     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.706713     Document Type: Article

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