Head-disk interface materials issues in heat-assisted magnetic recording

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 137-143

  Marchon, Bruno ^a   Guo, Xing Cai ^a   Pathem, Bala Krishna ^a   Rose, Franck ^a   Dai, Qing ^a   Feliss, Norbert ^a   Schreck, Erhard ^a   Reiner, James ^a   Mosendz, Oleksandr ^a   Takano, Kentaro ^a   Do, Hoa ^a   Burns, John ^a   Saito, Yoko ^b  

^a WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b HGST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Head disk interface (HDI); Heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR); Lubricant; Magnetic recording; Tribology

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); INTERFACIAL ENERGY; LUBRICANTS; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; TRIBOLOGY;

ARRHENIUS REACTION; CARBON OVERCOAT; HEAD DISK INTERFACE; HEAT-ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING; HEAT-ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIAS; ROUGHNESS MODELS; THERMAL BEHAVIORS; THERMAL TRANSIENTS;

NONVOLATILE STORAGE;

EID: 84897069902     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2013.2283068     Document Type: Article

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