Design and dynamics of flying height control slider with piezoelectric nanoactuator in hard disk drives

Journal of Tribology

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 161-170

  Juang, Jia Yang ^a   Bogy, David B ^a   Bhatia, C Singh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN JOSE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Active slider; Air bearing surface (ABS); Flying height control; Hard disk drives; Head disk interface; Piezoelectric nanoactuator

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ADHESION; AIR LUBRICATION; DAMPING; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; STIFFNESS;

ACTIVE SLIDER; AIR BEARING SURFACE (ABS); FLYING HEIGHT CONTROL; HEAD-DISK INTERFACE;

DISKS (MACHINE COMPONENTS);

ACTUATORS; ADHESION; AIR LUBRICATION; DAMPING; DISKS (MACHINE COMPONENTS); PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; STIFFNESS;

EID: 34248349168     PISSN: 07424787     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2401208     Document Type: Review

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