Tribological challenges of flying recording heads over unplanarized patterned media

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 4448-4451

  Mate, C Mathew ^a   Ruiz, Oscar J ^a   Wang, Run Han ^a   Feliss, Bert ^a   Bian, Xiaoping ^a   Wang, Shi Ling ^a  

^a WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Head disk interface; Patterned media; Tribology

Indexed keywords

AIR BEARING; BIT-PATTERNED MEDIA; DISCRETE TRACK MEDIA; DISK DRIVE; FLYING HEADS; HEAD DISK INTERFACE; MAGNETIC RECORDING HEADS; PATTERNED MEDIAS; PATTERNED SURFACE; RECORDING HEAD; TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMS;

BEARINGS (MACHINE PARTS); HARD DISK STORAGE; NONVOLATILE STORAGE;

TRIBOLOGY;

EID: 84867765567     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2012.2205226     Document Type: Article

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