Angstrom Scale Wear of the Air-Bearing Sliders in Hard Disk Drives

Light contact and surfing state dynamics of air bearing sliders in hard disk drives

(2012) Yung-Kan Chen et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Magnetic Head Protrusion Profiles and Wear Pattern of Thermal Flying-Height Control Sliders With Different Heater Designs

(2011) Jia-Yang Juang et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MAGNETICS

Tribological and Dynamic Study of Head Disk Interface at Sub-1-nm Clearance

(2011) Lizhi Su et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MAGNETICS

Effects of PFPE Lubricant Properties on the Critical Clearance and Rate of the Lubricant Transfer from Disk Surface to Slider

(2011) Ning Li et al.   TRIBOLOGY LETTERS

Durability Against Contact Wear of Nonlubricated Disks in the Head–Disk Interface of Disk Drives

(2010) Sang Hoon Kim et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MAGNETICS

Investigation of Flying-Height Stability of Thermal Fly-Height Control Sliders in Lubricant or Solid Contact with Roughness

(2010) Jinglin Zheng et al.   TRIBOLOGY LETTERS

Flyability and Durability Test of Dynamic Fly-Height Sliders at 1-nm Clearance

(2010) Ning Li et al.   TRIBOLOGY TRANSACTIONS

Lubricant Design Attributes for Subnanometer Head-Disk Clearance

(2009) B. Marchon   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MAGNETICS

Critical clearance and lubricant instability at the head-disk interface of a disk drive

(2008) Rohit P. Ambekar et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Dynamics in the Bridged State of a Magnetic Recording Slider

(2008) Thomas E. Karis et al.   TRIBOLOGY LETTERS