Contribution of water vapor to slider air-bearing pressure in hard disk drives

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 22, 2007, Pages

  Ma, Yansheng ^a   Liu, Bo ^a  

^a DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HARD DISK STORAGE;

AIR BEARING PRESSURE; HUMID AIR; SLIDER DISK INTERFACES;

WATER VAPOR;

EID: 34249902281     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2743745     Document Type: Article

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