Recent research of tape/drive tribology

Tribology International

Volumn 36, Issue 4-6, 2003, Pages 349-360

  Osaki, H ^a  

^a SONY CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Failure of tracking; Static friction coefficient; Tape drive; Volumetric recording density

Indexed keywords

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; FRICTION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TAPE DRIVES; TAPE RECORDINGS;

VOLUMETRIC RECORDING DENSITY;

TRIBOLOGY;

EID: 0037374695     PISSN: 0301679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-679X(02)00209-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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