Modeling and simulation of hard-particle interaction in head/disk interfaces

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 604-609

  Zeng, Qinghua ^a   Pit, Remmelt ^a   Payne, Robert ^a   Baumgart, Peter ^a   Huang, Fu Ying ^a  

^a HITACHI AMERICA LTD   (United States)

Author keywords

Friction; Head disk interface; Particle; Scratch; Slider air bearing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRICTION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MAGNETIC RECORDING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY;

HEAD/DISK INTERFACES; PARTICLE; SCRATCH; SLIDER AIR BEARING;

HARD DISK STORAGE;

EID: 14544279287     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2004.838063     Document Type: Article

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