Role of particulate contamination on friction and wear and durability of load/unload and padded picosliders

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 39, Issue 2 I, 2003, Pages 857-863

  Bhushan, Bharat ^a   Tambe, Nikhil S ^a  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact start stop; Load unload; Pad wear; Padded picosliders; Particulate contamination

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; DURABILITY; FRICTION; MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); WEAR OF MATERIALS;

HEAD DISK INTERFACE; PAD WEAR; PADDED PICOSLIDERS; PARTICULATE CONTAMINATION;

MAGNETIC HEADS;

EID: 0037361325     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2003.808940     Document Type: Article

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