Head-disk interface considerations at 10-nm flying height

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 38, Issue 5 I, 2002, Pages 2132-2134

  Wang, Run Han ^a   Nayak, U Vasant ^a  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Air bearing surface; Flyability; Flying height; Hard disk drive; Takeoff height; Tangential curvature

Indexed keywords

CORROSION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MAGNETIC HEADS; MAGNETIC RECORDING; WEAR OF MATERIALS;

MAGNETIC SPACING;

MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE;

EID: 0036761984     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2002.802693     Document Type: Article

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