An active-head slider with a piezoelectric actuator for controlling flying height

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 38, Issue 5 I, 2002, Pages 2102-2104

  Kurita, Masayuki ^a   Yamazaki, Takanori ^a   Kohira, Hidekazu ^a   Matsumoto, Masaaki ^a   Tsuchiyama, Ryuuji ^a   Xu, Junguo ^a   Harada, Takeshi ^a   Inoue, Youichi ^a   Su, Lizhi ^b   Kato, Koji ^b  

^a HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Actuator; Flying height; Magnetic head slider; MEMS

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FABRICATION; MAGNETIC HEADS; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MICROACTUATORS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; SILICON;

HEAD SLIDERS;

MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE;

EID: 0036762492     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2002.802843     Document Type: Article

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