Nonlinear aspects of air-bearing modeling and dynamic spacing modulation in sub-5-nm air bearings for hard disk drives

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 39, Issue 2 I, 2003, Pages 722-728

  Thornton, Brian H ^a   Bogy, David B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Air bearing; Flying height modulation; Head disk interface; Nonlinear dynamics; Tribology

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DYNAMICS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; HARD DISK STORAGE; MAGNETIC COUPLINGS; MAGNETIC SEPARATION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRIBOLOGY;

AIR BEARINGS; DYNAMIC SPACING MODULATION; HARD DISK DRIVES;

MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE;

EID: 0037360133     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2003.809000     Document Type: Article

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