Disk roughness and its influence on the performance of proximity recording sliders

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 35, Issue 5 PART 1, 1999, Pages 2460-2462

  Hua, Wei ^a   Liu, Bo ^a   Sheng, Gang ^a  

^a DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Flying performance; Probability model; Proximity recording slider; Surface roughness

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

PROXIMITY RECORDING SLIDERS;

MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE;

EID: 0033184205     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.800858     Document Type: Article

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