Thermal pole-tip protrusion analysis of magnetic heads for hard disk drives

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 3043-3045

  Aoki, Kenichiro ^a   Hoshino, Toshinori ^a   Iwase, Takeshi ^a   Imamura, Takahiro ^a   Aruga, Keiji ^a  

^a FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Air bearing surface (ABS); Finite element method (FEM); Head disk interface; Thermal pole tip protrusion

Indexed keywords

AIR; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DEFORMATION; ELECTRIC COILS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HARD DISK STORAGE; HEAT CONVECTION; MAGNETIC BEARINGS; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMOANALYSIS;

AIR-BEARING SURFACES (ABS); FLYING HEIGHTS; HARD-DISK INTERFACES; THERMAL POLE-TIP PROTRUSION;

MAGNETIC HEADS;

EID: 27744519816     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2005.855253     Document Type: Article

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