Alternate air bearing slider designs for areal density of 1 Tb/in 2

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 241-246

  Juang, Jia Yang ^a,b   Chen, Du ^a,b   Bogy, David B ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Air bearing surface (ABS); Electrostatic forces; Flying height (FH); Flying height modulation (FHM); Head disk interface; Inter molecular forces; Piezoelectric flying height control; Thermal flying height control (TFC)

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODYNAMICS; ELECTROSTATICS; MAGNETIC HEADS; RECORDING INSTRUMENTS; STABILITY; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; TRANSDUCERS;

AIR-BEARING SURFACE (ABS); AREAL DENSITY; ELECTROSTATIC FORCES; FLYING HEIGHT (FH); FLYING HEIGHT MODULATION (FHM); HEAD-DISK INTERFACE; INTER-MOLECULAR FORCES; PIEZOELECTRIC FLYING HEIGHT CONTROL; THERMAL FLYING HEIGHT CONTROL (TFC);

TERBIUM;

EID: 31344459840     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2005.861739     Document Type: Article

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