Wear and hardness of carbon overcoats on magnetic recording sliders

Wear

Volumn 243, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 18-24

  Prabhakaran, V ^a   Talke, F E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hardness; Scratch; Slider; Wear

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; AMORPHOUS FILMS; CARBON; DURABILITY; HARDNESS TESTING; MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE; MAGNETIC HEADS; MAGNETIC RECORDING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SILICON; TITANIUM CARBIDE; WEAR RESISTANCE;

CONTACT START STOP (CSS) TESTING; MAGNETIC RECORDING SLIDERS; NANOINDENTATION TESTS; SCRATCH RESISTANCE; SCRATCH TESTS;

PROTECTIVE COATINGS;

CARBON; DIAMOND-LIKE CARBON; HARDNESS; SCRATCHING; WEAR DETECTION;

EID: 0034253523     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0043-1648(00)00392-6     Document Type: Article

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