Influence of contact potential on slider-disk spacing: Simulation and experiment

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 40, Issue 4 II, 2004, Pages 3165-3167

  Knigge, Bernhard E ^a   Mate, C Mathew ^a   Ruiz, Oscar ^a   Baumgart, Peter M ^a  

^a SAN JOSE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact potential; Electrostatic; Flying height; Head disk interface

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODYNAMICS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

CONTACT POTENTIALS; FLYING HEIGHT; HEAD DISK INTERFACE; LASER DOPPLER VIBROMETERS (LDV);

ELECTROSTATICS;

EID: 4444265696     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2004.828955     Document Type: Article

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