Investigation of particle generation in a hard disk drive during the start/stop period

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 35, Issue 5 PART 1, 1999, Pages 2439-2441

  Park, Hee Sung ^a   Yoo, Yong Cheol ^a   Bae, Gwi Nam ^b   Hwang, Jung Ho ^b  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

HARD DISK DRIVES;

HARD DISK STORAGE;

EID: 0033183958     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.800851     Document Type: Article

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