Dynamically controlled thermal flying-height control slider

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 44, Issue 11 PART 2, 2008, Pages 3695-3697

  Shiramatsu, Toshiya ^a   Atsumi, Takenori ^a   Kurita, Masayuki ^a   Shimizu, Yuki ^a   Tanaka, Hideaki ^b  

^a HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

^b SAN JOSE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic head; Micro actuator; Power control

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; FITS AND TOLERANCES; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; INFORMATION USE; MAGNETIC ACTUATORS; MAGNETIC HEADS; MAGNETISM; MICROOPTICS; MODULATION; POWER CONTROL;

FLYING HEIGHT CONTROL; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; MANUFACTURING TOLERANCES; MICRO THERMAL ACTUATORS; TEMPERATURE-INDUCED; THERMAL FLYING HEIGHT CONTROLS (TFC); THERMAL PROTRUSION; ULTRA-LOW FLYING HEIGHT;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 70449444137     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2008.2002626     Document Type: Article

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