Time dependence of head-media interference at low fly heights

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 44, Issue 11 PART 2, 2008, Pages 3649-3652

  He, Jizhong ^a   Hopkins, John ^a   Duan, Shanlin ^a   Johnson, Kenneth ^a  

^a SAN JOSE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Disjoining pressure; Head disk interface; Moguls; Touchdown height (TDH)

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; TOPOGRAPHY;

DISJOINING PRESSURES; HEAD DISK INTERFACE; HEAD-DISK SPACING; HEAD-MEDIA SPACINGS; INTER-MOLECULAR FORCES; MOGULS; SUBSTRATE TOPOGRAPHY; TOUCHDOWN HEIGHT (TDH);

MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE;

EID: 77955134965     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2008.2001597     Document Type: Article

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