Genesis and evolution of lubricant moguls

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 38, Issue 5 I, 2002, Pages 2111-2113

  Dai, Quing ^a   Saint Olive, Celine ^b   Pit, Remmelt ^c   Marchon, Bruno ^a  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

Head disk interface; Lubricant; Lubricant moguls; Optical surface analyzer

Indexed keywords

INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LUBRICANTS; MAGNETIC HEADS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

OPTICAL SURFACE ANALYZER;

MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE;

EID: 0036761961     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2002.802839     Document Type: Article

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