Roughness of thin perfluoropolyether lubricant films: Influence on disk drive technology

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 37, Issue 4 I, 2001, Pages 1821-1823

  Mate, C Mathew ^a   Toney, Michael F ^a   Leach, K Amanda ^b  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Disk drives; Lubrication; X ray reflectivity

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); ELECTRIC CURRENTS; HYDROGENATION; LUBRICANTS; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MAGNETIC THIN FILMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYETHERS; SILICON WAFERS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; X RAY SCATTERING;

DISK DRIVES; X-RAY REFLECTIVITY;

MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE;

EID: 0035386050     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.950978     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Thermal stability of recorded information at high densities
2. Interfacial density profile for fluids in the critical region
3. Observation of capillary waves on liquid thin films from mesoscopic to atomic length scales
4. Roughness of molecularly thin perfluoropolyether polymer films
5. Molecular conformation and disjoining pressure of polymeric liquid films
6. Flying stiction, lubricant pick-up and carbon-overcoat wear of magnetic heads
7. The dynamic coupling of slider to the disk surface and it's relevance to take-off height
8. Effect of micro waviness and design of landing zones with glide avalanche below 0.5 for conventional pico sliders