Optimal design of suspensions for high-density magnetic recording systems

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 38, Issue 5 I, 2002, Pages 2165-2167

  Lau, Gih Keong ^a   Du, Hejun ^b   Pan, Ling ^a,c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hard disk drive (HDD); Load beam; Resonant frequencies; Suspension; Topology optimization

Indexed keywords

HARD DISK STORAGE; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTIMIZATION; SUSPENSIONS (COMPONENTS); TOPOLOGY; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

MAGNETIC RECORDING SYSTEMS;

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 0036762047     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2002.802795     Document Type: Article

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