Wear and corrosion resistance of thin overcoat with different interlayer materials

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 35, Issue 5 PART 1, 1999, Pages 2361-2363

  Wang, Zhangmin ^a   Yang, Ming M ^a   Chao, James L ^a   Russak, Michael A ^a  

^a WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Corrosion; Interlayer; Overcoat; Wear

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CHROMIUM ALLOYS; CORROSION RESISTANCE; MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE; MAGNETIC HEADS; NICKEL ALLOYS; WEAR OF MATERIALS;

INTERLAYER MATERIALS;

MAGNETIC THIN FILMS;

EID: 0033183855     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.800825     Document Type: Article

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