A study of the air bearing effect on the lubricant displacement using an optical surface analyzer

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 38, Issue 5 I, 2002, Pages 2138-2140

  Watanabe, Takeshi ^a   Bogy, David B ^b  

^a Electric Corp Res Devmt Ltd   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Air bearing pressure; Laser Doppler vibrometer; Lubricant flow; Lubricant modulation; Lubricant recovery; Optical surface analyzer

Indexed keywords

LUBRICANTS; MAGNETIC HEADS; MAGNETIC RECORDING; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

OPTICAL SURFACE ANALYZERS;

HARD DISK STORAGE;

EID: 0036762695     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2002.802691     Document Type: Article

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