Flying height adjustment technologies for high-density magnetic recording

International Journal of Product Development

Volumn 5, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 306-320

  Zhang, Mingsheng ^a   Liu, Bo ^a  

^a DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

ABS; Air bearing surface; Flying height adjustment; HDI; Head disk interface; Magnetic hard disk drive; Magnetic recording; Microactuator

Indexed keywords

EID: 40949144873     PISSN: 14779056     EISSN: 17418178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJPD.2008.017466     Document Type: Article

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