The dynamic coupling of the slider to the disk surface and its relevance to take-off height

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 37, Issue 4 I, 2001, Pages 1839-1841

  Gonzalez, Daniel ^a   Nayak, Vasant ^b   Marchon, Bruno ^b   Payne, Robert ^b   Crump, Daniel ^c   Dennig, Paul ^c  

^a Telecomunicación   (Spain)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

Disk drives; Disk profilometry; Disk waviness; Glide avalanche; Slider dynamics

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC RESPONSE; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; MAGNETIC COUPLINGS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

GLIDE AVALANCHE;

MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE;

EID: 0035385997     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.950984     Document Type: Article

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