Effect of slider lubricant pickup on stability at the head-disk interface

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 3028-3030

  Ambekar, Rohit P ^b   Bogy, David B ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Disk drive; Head disk interface; Lubricant; Stability

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LUBRICANTS; MAGNETIC DEVICES; SYSTEM STABILITY;

DISK DRIVES; DYNAMIC INSTABILITY; HEAD-DISK INTERFACES; INTERMOLECULAR FORCES;

MAGNETIC HEADS;

EID: 27744503304     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2005.855242     Document Type: Article

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