Particle flow and contamination in slider air bearings for hard disk drives

Journal of Tribology

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 358-363

  Shen, Xinjiang ^a   Bogy, David B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; BEARINGS (MACHINE PARTS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTAMINATION; DRAG; GRAVITATION; LIFT; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

AIR BEARINGS;

HARD DISK STORAGE;

AIR BEARING; COMPUTER PERIPHERAL; PARTICLE FLOW; TRIBOLOGY;

EID: 0038578395     PISSN: 07424787     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1537746     Document Type: Article

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