Experimental and analytical study of head-disk impact and dynamics of negative-pressure sliders in the unloading process

Journal of Information Storage and Processing Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 281-291

  Sheng, Gang ^a   Hua, Wei ^b   Chen, Qisuo ^b   Liu, Bo ^b  

^a Sony Electronics Asia Pacific Pte Ltd   (Singapore)

^b DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Head disk interface; Load unload dynamics; Magnetic recording; Tribology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034553662     PISSN: 10998047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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