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... jitter lubrication laser beam applications The mechanical spacing between the head and the disk of magnetic disk drives continues to decrease as the areal density increases. A flying height of about 12 nm was predicted for areal density of ∼50 Gb/in. 2 by Menon 1 . Depending on the tolerances...