Effects of humid air on air-bearing flying height

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 3301-3304

  Strom, Brian D ^a   Zhang, Shuyu ^a   Lee, Sung Chang ^a   Khurshudov, Andrei ^a,b   Tyndall, George W ^a  

^a SAMSUNG INFORMATION SYSTEMS AMERICA   (United States)

^b SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air bearing; Flying height; Hard disk drive; Humidy

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC RECORDING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; WATER VAPOR;

AIR BEARING; FLYING HEIGHT; HARD DISK DRIVE; MAGNETIC SPACING;

MAGNETIC BEARINGS;

EID: 34347264790     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2007.897085     Document Type: Article

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