Tribo-chemistry at the head/disk interface

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 35, Issue 2 PART 1, 1999, Pages 910-915

  Singh Bhatia, C ^a   Fong, Wallon ^b   Chen, Chao Yuan ^b   Wei, Jianjun ^b   Bogy, David B ^b   Anders, Simone ^c   Stammler, Thomas ^c   Stöhr, Joachim ^d  

^a IBM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cathodic arc carbon; Head disk interface; NEXAFS; Tribo chemical studies; X PEEM; Zdol decomposition

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747380912     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.753807     Document Type: Article

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