Drive Integration of Active Flying-Height Control Slider with Micro Thermal Actuator

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2513-2515

  Shiramatsu, Toshiya ^a   Suk, Mike ^a   Saegusa, Shozo ^b   Ohki, Satoshi ^a   Tanaka, Hideaki ^a  

^a SAN JOSE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flying height; magnetic heads; micro actuator; simulation; thermal protrusion

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008055345     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2006.880564     Document Type: Article

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