Effects of Track-Seeking Motion on the Flying Attitudes of Ultralow Flying Sliders

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2522-2524

  Juang, Jia Yang ^a,b   Kubotera, Hiroyuki ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN JOSE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flying height; hard disk drives; head media interface; intermolecular and electrostatic forces; track seeking motion

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008049848     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2006.880461     Document Type: Article

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