Further study of the effect of water vapor on slider air bearing

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 5006-5009

  Ma, Yansheng ^a   Liu, Bo ^a  

^a DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Flying height; Hard disk drive; Slider air bearing; Water vapor

Indexed keywords

GAS BEARINGS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; VAPOR PRESSURE; WATER VAPOR;

EFFECT OF WATER; EMPIRICAL EQUATIONS; FIRST-ORDER APPROXIMATIONS; FLYING HEIGHTS; HARD DISK DRIVE; SATURATED WATER; SLIDER AIR BEARINGS; SLIDER-DISK INTERFACES;

PHASE INTERFACES;

EID: 70449398315     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2009.2029421     Document Type: Article

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