Scanning carrier current method for in-situ measurement of flying height variation

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 37, Issue 4 I, 2001, Pages 1814-1817

  Yuan, Z M ^a   Liu, B ^a   Hu, S B ^a   Leng, Q F ^a   Chen, Q S ^a  

^a DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Carrier current; Head disk spacing; In situ flying height measurement; Magnetic disk recording

Indexed keywords

COERCIVE FORCE; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE; MAGNETIC HEADS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRANSIENTS;

CARRIER CURRENTS; FLYING HEIGHT VARIATIONS;

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 0035385984     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.950976     Document Type: Article

References (3)

1. Thermal dependence of MR signal on slider flying state: 3-D heat transfer model and comparison with experimental results
2. Magnetic readback microscopy applied to laser-texture characterization in standard desktop disk drives
3. Carrier erasure current method for in-situ monitoring of head-disk spacing variation