Numerical and experimental study of the particle contamination in a head/media interface

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 35, Issue 5 PART 1, 1999, Pages 2442-2444

  Zhang, Shuyu ^a   Wang, Larry ^a   Jones, Paul ^b   Lopatin, Gerald ^b  

^a Iomega Corporation   (United States)

^b WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

And experiment; Particle contamination; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MAGNETIC HEADS;

HARD DISK DRIVES;

HARD DISK STORAGE;

EID: 0033184166     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.800852     Document Type: Article

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