Flying height-attitude observation and investigation of sliders in load/unload process

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 38, Issue 5 I, 2002, Pages 2123-2125

  Zhou, Jiang ^a   Ma, Yansheng ^a   Liu, Bo ^a   Leng, Qingfang ^b   Matsumoto, Masaaki ^c   Xu, Junguo ^c  

^a DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^b HDI Instrumentation   (United States)

^c HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flying height history; Load unload process; White light interferometry

Indexed keywords

FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTERFEROMETRY; LUBRICANTS; MAGNETIC HEADS; PHOTODETECTORS; TRIBOLOGY;

FLYING HEIGHT-ATTITUDE TESTING;

MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE;

EID: 0036761665     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2002.802830     Document Type: Article

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