... of air entrained between the ABS and the spinning disk. fluid bearing air bearing contamination hard disk drive particle flow disc drives flow hard discs surface contamination 04 05 2006 22 09 2007 06 12 2007 2008 American Society of Mechanical Engineers ...

...-phase flow laminar flow surface contamination adhesion impact (mechanical) With the evolution of magnetic recording disk technology, the flying height of the sliders has decreased dramatically. Currently, the minimum flying height in some products already is as low as 10 nm. With such narrow...

... February 1, 1999; revised manuscript received June 30, 1999. Paper No. 99-Trib-31. Associate Technical Editor: J. L. Streator. 10 October 1999 01 February 1999 30 June 1999 magnetic disc storage data integrity manufacturing processes surface contamination adhesion particle...

.... Streator. 08 February 1999 30 June 1999 magnetic disc storage magnetic heads interface phenomena organic compounds surface contamination surface chemistry failure (mechanical) lubrication Modern disk drives are extremely sensitive to small levels of contamination during...