Mechanical strength and wear resistance of 5 nm IBD carbon overcoats for magnetic disks

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 37, Issue 4 I, 2001, Pages 1792-1794

  Scharf, Thomas W ^a   Wu, Tsai Wei ^b   Yen, Bing K ^b   Marchon, Bruno ^b   Barnard, John A ^c  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Failure; Film structure; Ion beam deposited carbon films; Wear strength

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; CARBON; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); FAILURE (MECHANICAL); HARDNESS; ION BEAM ASSISTED DEPOSITION; LOADS (FORCES); MAGNETIC RECORDING; PROTECTIVE COATINGS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPUTTERING; TRIBOLOGY; WEAR RESISTANCE;

CRITICAL LOADS;

MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE;

EID: 0035386587     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.950970     Document Type: Article

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