Thin film gas lubrication characteristics of flying head slider bearings over patterned media in hard disk drives

Microsystem Technologies

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 362-368

  Tagawa, N ^a   Mori, A ^a  

^a KANSAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; LINEAR EQUATIONS; LUBRICATION; MAGNETIC BEARINGS; MAGNETIC HEADS; MAGNETIC RECORDING; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; THIN FILMS;

FLYING HEAD SLIDER BEARINGS; LINEARIZED BOLTZMANN EQUATION; THIN FILM GAS LUBRICATION;

HARD DISK STORAGE;

EID: 0038685008     PISSN: 09467076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00542-002-0285-4     Document Type: Article

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