Flying and tracking stability of porous air bearing systems

Journal of Information Storage and Processing Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 3-10

  Stahl, K J ^a   Gavit, Steve E ^a  

^a Segway Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

Air bearings; Tape motion

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035601479     PISSN: 10998047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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