Femto slider: Fabrication and evaluation

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 909-914

  Liu, Bo ^a   Zhang, Mingsheng ^a   Yu, Shengkai ^a   Gonzaga, Leonard ^a   Hor, Yuet Sim ^a   Xu, Jianfeng ^a  

^a DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Air bearing surface; Etching and disk drive; Femto slider; Flying height

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURE; ETCHING; MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PERFORMANCE; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER); TRIBOLOGY;

AIR-BEARING SURFACE; FEMTO SLIDER; FLYING HEIGHT;

MAGNETIC HEADS;

EID: 0037358472     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2003.808919     Document Type: Article

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