A Model for Lubricant Flow From Disk to Slider

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 39, Issue 5 II, 2003, Pages 2447-2449

  Marchon, Bruno ^a   Karis, Tom ^a   Dai, Qing ^a   Pit, Remmelt ^b  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

Head disk interface; Lubrication; Tribology

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVAPORATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LUBRICANTS; MAGNETIC HEADS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; TRIBOLOGY; VAPOR PRESSURE; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS;

MAGNETIC SPACING;

HARD DISK STORAGE;

EID: 0141884994     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2003.816433     Document Type: Article

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