Optimized design of heaters for flying height adjustment to preserve performance and reliability

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2235-2237

  Miyake, Koji ^a   Shiramatsu, Toshiya ^a   Kurita, Masayuki ^a   Tanaka, Hideaki ^a   Suk, Mike ^a   Saegusa, Shozo ^b  

^a SAN JOSE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flying height; Magnetic head slider; Microactuator; Thermal protrusion

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC HEADS; MAGNETIC RECORDING; OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY;

FLYING HEIGHT; MAGNETIC HEAD SLIDERS; THERMAL PROTRUSION;

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 34249048184     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2007.893636     Document Type: Article

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