Study of Head-Disk Interference at Low-Flying Height

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 39, Issue 5 II, 2003, Pages 2462-2464

  Li, Z Fred ^a   Chen, Chao Yuan ^a   Liu, Jia J ^a  

^a MAXTOR CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Flyability; Low flying height; Lubricant pickup; Wear

Indexed keywords

INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LUBRICANTS; MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE; MAGNETIC HEADS; WEAR OF MATERIALS;

LOW-FLYING HEIGHT;

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 0141884992     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2003.816438     Document Type: Article

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