Low flying-height slider with high thermal actuation efficiency and small flying-height modulation caused by disk waviness

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 145-150

  Liu, B ^a   Yu, S K ^a   Zhou, W D ^a   Wong, C H ^a   Hua, W ^a  

^a DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Flying height; Flying height modulation; Head disk interface; Thermal flying height control; Waviness

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HARD DISK STORAGE; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MODULATION;

AREAL DENSITIES; FLYING HEIGHT; FLYING HEIGHT MODULATION; HEAD-DISK INTERFACE; THERMAL FLYING HEIGHT CONTROL; WAVINESS;

SLIDING MODE CONTROL;

EID: 37249000882     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2007.911036     Document Type: Article

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