Flying-height reduction of magnetic-head slider due to thermal protrusion

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 3007-3009

  Kurita, Masayuki ^a   Xu, Junguo ^a   Tokuyama, Mikio ^a   Nakamoto, Kazuhiro ^a   Saegusa, Shozo ^b   Maruyama, Youji ^b  

^a HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

^b SAN JOSE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Flying height; Magnetic head slider; Simulation; Thermal protrusion

Indexed keywords

AIR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; HEAT TRANSFER; SIMULATION; THERMAL EFFECTS;

FLYING HEIGHT; MAGNETIC HEAD SLIDERS; THERMAL DEFORMATION; THERMAL PROTRUSION (TPR);

MAGNETIC HEADS;

EID: 27744565302     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2005.855240     Document Type: Article

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