Nonuniform distribution of molecularly thin lubricant caused by inhomogeneous buried layers of discrete track media

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 44, Issue 11 PART 2, 2008, Pages 3663-3666

  Fukuzawa, Kenji ^a,b   Muramatsu, Takuro ^a   Amakawa, Hiroaki ^a   Itoh, Shintaro ^a   Zhang, Hedong ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Discrete track media; Disjoining pressure; Head disk interface; Lubricant; Magnetic recording

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; MAGNETIC RECORDING; THICKNESS CONTROL;

DISCRETE TRACK MEDIA; DISJOINING PRESSURES; HEAD DISK INTERFACE; INTER-MOLECULAR FORCES; INTERMOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; NON-UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION; THEORETICAL ESTIMATION; THICKNESS DISTRIBUTIONS;

LUBRICANTS;

EID: 77955130645     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2008.2003042     Document Type: Article

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