Taking a fresh look at disjoining pressure of lubricants at slider-disk interfaces

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 47, Issue 1 PART 1, 2011, Pages 124-130

  Mate, C Mathew ^a  

^a SAN JOSE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Disjoining pressure; disk drives; lubrication; tribology

Indexed keywords

LUBRICANT FILMS; LUBRICATION; TRIBOLOGY;

DISJOINING PRESSURES; DISK DRIVE; LUBRICANT BEHAVIOR; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; SLIDER-DISK INTERFACES; SUB NANOMETERS; THEORETICAL EXPRESSION;

DRIVES;

EID: 78651069074     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2010.2073691     Document Type: Article

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