Observation of slider droplet formation during fly stiction tests with a real time visualization instrument

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 35, Issue 5 PART 1, 1999, Pages 2409-2411

  Fowler, David E ^a   Geiss, Roy H ^a   Eldridge, Daniel ^a   Schreck, Erhard ^a  

^a MAXTOR CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Disk drive; Fly stiction; Head disk interface; Outgassing; Stiction; Tribology

Indexed keywords

DEGASSING; MAGNETIC HEADS; PARAFFINS; STICTION; TRIBOLOGY;

DISK DRIVES; FLY STICTION TESTS; SLIDERS;

MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE;

EID: 0033183920     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.800841     Document Type: Article

References (4)

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2. J. Gui and B. Marchon, "Fly/Stiction: Mechanical instability of a head-disc interface", IEEE Trans. Magn., vol. 34, p. 1804 (1998).
3. R. F. Wolter, V. Raman, D. Jen, and D. Gillis, "Time dependence of liquid accumulation on flying sliders: fly stiction", J. Info. Storage Proc. Syst., Vol. 1, p. 33 (1999).
4. D. E. Fowler, W. Wong, and E. Ghelichkhani, unpublished.