Abstract
Head contamination is a serious problem that must be avoided for high reliability. It has been previously reported that the wear debris contamination behavior of head/slider varies as the flying height of the slider is lowered. The emphasis of this paper is on identifying the trend . of wear debris contamination on the air bearing surface of a slider due to contact with the disk. The surface damage effect of the slider was accelerated by conducting sliding tests in drag conditions. It was found that for a wide range of effective slider load, the wear debris tend to accumulate near the edges of the air bearing features on the slider surface. As a means to prevent the head from being contaminated by wear debris, the use of micro-grooved surface is proposed. The effectiveness of micro-grooves on a silicon surface in trapping wear particles is demonstrated. Hence, grooves may be used strategically on the slider air bearing surface to develop contamination-free sliders.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2355-2357 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Magnetics |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue number | 5 PART 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1999 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Manuscnpt received March 5, 1999. D E Kim, +82-2-361-2822, fax +82-2-3 12-2159, kimde@bubble.yon sei ac kr, http //me yonsei ac kr This work was supported by the Korea Science and Engineenng Foundation (KOSEF) through CISD (no 97K3-0907-02-02-1) at Yonsei University
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering