Pole-tip protrusion effect on head-disk interface at low flying clearance

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 3019-3021

  Gong, Zhong Qing ^a,b   Liu, Jia Jay ^a  

^a MAXTOR CORPORATION   (United States)

^b SAMSUNG INFORMATION SYSTEMS AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact hysteresis; Flying clearance; Head disk interface; Pole tip protrusion

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; ACOUSTICS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; HYSTERESIS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LUBRICANTS; TRIBOLOGY;

CONTACT HYSTERESIS; FLYING CLEARANCE; HEAD-DISK INTERFACES; POLE-TIP PROTRUSION (PTP);

MAGNETIC HEADS;

EID: 27744479411     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2005.855245     Document Type: Article

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