Effect of surface texture on the flying characteristics of pico sliders

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 3022-3024

  Zhang, Jiadong ^b   Su, Lizhi ^b   Talke, Frank E ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Flying height; Intermolecular forces; Texture

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC BEARINGS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TEXTURES;

FLYING HEIGHT; INTERMOLECULAR FORCES; SLIDER AIR BEARINGS; SURFACE TEXTURE;

MAGNETIC DEVICES;

EID: 27744600292     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2005.855237     Document Type: Article

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