Nonlinearity of thermal spacing control in hard disk drives

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 816-821

  Aoki, Kenichiro ^a   Watanabe, Toru ^a  

^a FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Finite element method; Head x2013; disk interface; Thermal pole tip protrusion; Thermal spacing control

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HEAT TRANSFER;

DISK INTERFACE; INITIAL PRESSURE; KEY TECHNOLOGIES; MAGNETIC SPACINGS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; POLE-TIP PROTRUSIONS; SHAPE DIFFERENCE; THERMAL POLE-TIP PROTRUSION;

MAGNETIC HEADS;

EID: 60449088099     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2008.2010641     Document Type: Article

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