A Study of the Lubricant Displacement Under a Flying Head Slider Caused by Slider-Disk Interaction

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 39, Issue 5 II, 2003, Pages 2477-2479

  Watanabe, Takeshi ^a,b   Bogy, David B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FUJI ELECTRIC CO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Air bearing pressure; Disk waviness; Laser doppler vibrometer (LDV); Lube flow; Lube modulation; Lube recovery; Optical surface analyzer (OSA)

Indexed keywords

INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LASER APPLICATIONS; MAGNETIC HEADS; MODULATION; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

SLIDER-DISK INTERACTION;

LUBRICANTS;

EID: 0141953876     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2003.816443     Document Type: Article

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