Mechanical characteristics of an optical flying head assembly with visible light-wave guide flexure

Journal of Information Storage and Processing Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 323-330

  Ohkubo, Toshifumi ^a   Hashimoto, Mitsuo ^a   Hirota, Terunao ^a   Itao, Kiyoshi ^a   Niwa, Takashi ^b   Maeda, Hideo ^b   Mitsuoka, Yasuyuki ^b   Nakajima, Kunio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flexible optical guide; Flying head slider; Near field recording

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034554729     PISSN: 10998047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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