Investigation of nano-particle's size distributions and charging characteristics in operating HDD

Jaeho Lee, Dongho Park, Dae Young Lee, Jungho Hwang

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Abstract

As the flying height of a slider in a hard disk drive decreases, the head and disk are more likely to come in contact and to generate contamination particles. Since particle contamination can cause serious problems including thermal asperity, its removal is very important to increase storage capacity. When particles are generated in a HDD, particles could be charged by several charging mechanism and have few number of elementary charge. In this paper, size distributions of particles from HDD and amount of particle charge with some rotational speed variations are shown. Also, the average numbers of elementary charge are calculated from experimental data. Following analysis from SEM images of charged particles, we can confirm some trends of experimental results.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAsia-Pacific Magnetic Recording Conference 2004, Digest of APMRC 2004
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages91-92
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)0780387171, 9780780387171
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2004
Event2004 Asia-Pacific Magnetic Recording Conference, APMRC 2004 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 2004 Aug 162004 Aug 19

Publication series

NameAsia-Pacific Magnetic Recording Conference 2004, Digest of APMRC 2004

Other

Other2004 Asia-Pacific Magnetic Recording Conference, APMRC 2004
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CitySeoul
Period04/8/1604/8/19

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2004 IEEE.

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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