Analysis of stain formation and wear mechanisms of magnetoresistive heads and magnetic particle tape in a linear tape drive

Journal of Information Storage and Processing Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 193-205

  Kattner, Micah ^a   Bhushan, Bharat ^a  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic tape; Magnetic tape tribology; Magnetoresistive heads; Stain

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034370732     PISSN: 10998047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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