Pole tip recession studies of thin-film rigid disk head sliders. II. Effects of air bearing surface and pole tip region designs and carbon coating

Wear

Volumn 219, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 30-41

  Xu, Junguo ^a   Bhushan, Bharat ^a  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic recording; Wear

Indexed keywords

FRICTION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MAGNETIC HEADS; PROTECTIVE COATINGS; WEAR RESISTANCE;

AIR BEARING SURFACE (ABS); DISK HEAD SLIDERS; POLE TIP RECESSION (PTR);

ABRASION;

MAGNETIC RECORDING; WEAR;

EID: 0032483162     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0043-1648(98)00223-3     Document Type: Article

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