Flying height measurement while seeking in hard disk drives

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 34, Issue 4 PART 1, 1998, Pages 1765-1767

  Schardt, Bruce C ^a,b   Schreck, Erhard ^a   Sonnenfeld, Richard ^a   Haddock, Quinn ^a   Haggis, John R ^a  

^a MAXTOR CORPORATION   (United States)

^b Millennium Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic flying height measurement; Flying height loss during seek

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC HEADS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

AIR BEARING SURFACE (ABS); FLYING HEIGHT MEASUREMENT; WALLACE SPACING LOSS FORMULA;

HARD DISK STORAGE;

EID: 0032117980     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.706699     Document Type: Article

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