Chemically modified air-bearing surface for the near-contact regime

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 3049-3051

  Chiba, Hiroshi ^a   Musashi, Takayuki ^a   Kasamatsu, Yoshiharu ^a   Watanabe, Jun ^a   Watanabe, Touru ^a   Watanabe, Keiji ^a  

^a FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Air bearing surface (ABS); Flying height (FH); Head disk interface; Intermolecular force

Indexed keywords

INTERFACES (MATERIALS); INTERFACIAL ENERGY; MAGNETIC HEADS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SURFACES; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

AIR-BEARING SURFACES (ABS); FLYING HEIGHTS (FH); HEAD-DISK INTERFACES; INTERMOLECULAR FORCES;

MAGNETIC BEARINGS;

EID: 27744527019     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2005.855259     Document Type: Article

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