Effect of particulate concentration, materials and size on the friction and wear of a negative-pressure picoslider flying on a laser-textured disk

Wear

Volumn 247, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 180-190

  Yoon, Eui Sung ^a,b   Bhushan, Bharat ^a  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

^b Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DURABILITY; FRICTION; HARD DISK STORAGE; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LASER APPLICATIONS; MAGNETIC HEADS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

HARD DISK DRIVES; HEAD DISK INTERFACE; LASER TEXTURED DISK; PARTICLE CONTAMINATION;

WEAR OF MATERIALS;

CONCENTRATION; DRIVE; FRICTION; PARTICLE; WEAR;

EID: 0035241958     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0043-1648(00)00530-5     Document Type: Article

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