An active head slider using a piezoelectric cantilever for in situ flying-height control

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 39, Issue 2 I, 2003, Pages 826-831

  Suzuki, Kenji ^a   Maeda, Ryutaro ^b   Chu, Jiaru ^c   Kato, Takahisa ^b   Kurita, Masayuki ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^d HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hard disks; Microactuators; Microelecto mechanical devices; Piezoelectric films

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; HARD DISK STORAGE; MICROACTUATORS; MICROMACHINING;

ACTIVE HEAD SLIDER; FLYING-HEIGHT CONTROL; PIEZOELECTRIC CANTILEVER;

PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES;

EID: 0037361414     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2003.808934     Document Type: Article

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