An overview of glide testing

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 39, Issue 2 I, 2003, Pages 729-734

  Nayak, U V ^a   Lee, C K ^b   O'Sullivan, T C ^a   Hernandez Fernandez, J ^c   Gonzalez, D ^d  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

^d Madrid   (Spain)

Author keywords

Air bearing vibration modes; Finite element modeling; Laser heterodyne interferometry; PZT glide heads; Shaped PZT electrodes; Slider bending modes

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER APPLICATIONS; MAGNETIC HEADS; MAGNETIC RECORDING; SENSORS; STIFFNESS;

AIR BEARING; GLIDE TESTING; LEAD ZIRCONATE TITANATE SENSOR; SLIDER BENDING MODES; SLIDER DYNAMIC PITCH; VERTICAL VIBRATIONS;

MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE;

EID: 0345382616     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2003.809002     Document Type: Article

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