Lube-surfing recording and its feasibility exploration

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 899-904

  Liu, B ^a   Zhang, M S ^a   Yu, S K ^a   Hua, W ^a   Ma, Y S ^a   Zhou, W D ^a   Gonzaga, L ^a   Man, Y J ^a  

^a DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Head disk interface; Magnetic disk drives; Magnetic recording; Magnetic spacing

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE; MAGNETIC HEADS; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MAGNETISM;

AREAL DENSITIES; CONTACT DETECTION; CONTACT RECORDING; HEAD DISK INTERFACE; MAGNETIC DISK DRIVE; MAGNETIC SPACINGS; RECORDING DENSITY; SLIDER AIR BEARINGS;

ACTUATOR DISKS;

EID: 60449107296     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2008.2010671     Document Type: Article

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