Electrostatic microactuator for future hard disk drive

Digest of the Asia-Pacific Magnetic Recording Conference 2002, APMRC 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages

  Sassolini, S ^a   Del Sarto, M ^a   Baldo, L ^a  

^a STMICROELECTRONICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Dual stage; Electrostatic; MEMS

Indexed keywords

ACTUATOR DISKS; BANDWIDTH; BEARINGS (MACHINE PARTS); DIGITAL STORAGE; ELECTROSTATIC ACTUATORS; ELECTROSTATICS; MAGNETIC ACTUATORS; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MAGNETISM; MEMS; MICROACTUATORS;

DUAL STAGE; ELECTROSTATIC MICROACTUATORS; HARD DISK DRIVE; HIGH BANDWIDTH; MAGNETIC DATA; MAGNETIC TRACKS; MECHANICAL RESONANCE; MEMS TECHNOLOGY;

HARD DISK STORAGE;

EID: 84964411836     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APMRC.2002.1037695     Document Type: Conference Paper

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