Effect of van der Waals Force on Air-Bearing Flying Characteristics at Ultra-Low Fly Height

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2483-2485

  Peng, Wei ^a   Crone, Robert M ^a   Hsia, Yiao Tee ^a  

^a SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air bearing slider; head disk interface (HDI); van der Waals (vdW)

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008045189     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2006.878615     Document Type: Article

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