Stiction of padded, stepped, and crowned pico sliders

Journal of Information Storage and Processing Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 117-123

  Fu, Li Jun ^a   Knigge, Bernhard ^a   Talke, Frank E ^a   Yamamoto, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Head disk interface; Stiction; Tribology

Indexed keywords

EID: 8844276813     PISSN: 10998047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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