Spatial and Temporal Profiling of Protrusion in Magnetic Recording Heads

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 40, Issue 1 II, 2004, Pages 326-331

  Nikitin, Vladimir ^a   Gider, Savas ^a   Tabib, Jila ^a   Hsiao, David ^a   Salo, Michael ^a   Sui, Gary ^a   Yuan, Samuel ^a   Satoh, Noriaki A ^a   Xu, Junguo ^b   Maruyama, Youji ^a  

^a SAN JOSE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Mech Eng Research Laboratory   (Japan)

Author keywords

Magnetic heads; Magnetic recording mechanical factors; Strain; Thermal protrusion

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; EDDY CURRENTS; MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE; MAGNETIC HYSTERESIS; MAGNETIC RECORDING; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; STRAIN; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL EXPANSION; THIN FILMS;

MAGNETIC RECORDING MECHANICAL FACTORS; THERMAL PROTRUSION;

MAGNETIC HEADS;

EID: 10744223475     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2003.821159     Document Type: Article

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