Lubricant replenishment on carbon coated discs

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 35, Issue 5 PART 1, 1999, Pages 2454-2456

  Ma, X ^a   Gui, J ^a   Marchon, B ^a   Jhon, M S ^b   Bauer, C L ^c   Rauch, G C ^c  

^a SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Pfpe lubricant; Replenishment; Theoretical modeling

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; LUBRICANTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT;

CARBON COATED DISKS; LUBRICANT REPLENISHMENT;

MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE;

EID: 0033184373     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.800856     Document Type: Article

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