Flying-Height Adjustment of a Magnetic Head Slider With a Piezoelectric Micro-Actuator

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 39, Issue 5 II, 2003, Pages 2480-2482

  Kurita, Masayuki ^a   Tsuchiyama, Ryuuji ^a   Tokuyama, Mikio ^a   Xu, Junguo ^a   Yoshimura, Yasuhiro ^a   Kohira, Hidekazu ^a   Su, Lizhi ^b   Kato, Koji ^b  

^a HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Actuator; Adjustment; Flying height; Magnetic head slider; Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE; MICROACTUATORS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; PRODUCT DESIGN; SILICON;

MAGNETIC HEAD SLIDERS;

MAGNETIC HEADS;

EID: 0141884984     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2003.816444     Document Type: Article

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