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JRM Vol.17 No.5 pp. 509-516
doi: 10.20965/jrm.2005.p0509
(2005)

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Basic Design Guide Proposal on Nanometer Flying-Height Slider for Small Magnetic Disk Drives

Yoshinori Takeuchi*, and Katsuyuki Tanaka**

*Slider Engineering Department, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, 2880 Kozu, Odawara-shi, Kanagawa 256-8510, Japan

**Department of Mechanical System Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Shiga Prefecture, 2500 Hassaka-cho, Hikone-shi, Shiga 522-8533, Japan

Received:
April 27, 2005
Accepted:
August 29, 2005
Published:
October 20, 2005
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Keywords:
magnetic head slider, flying height, stability, nanometer, molecular mean free path
Abstract
We propose a basic design guide to design a very low spacing slider for small magnetic disk drives. The design features; (1) A multipad or side-step slider to avoid a sudden decrease in flying height due to the yaw angle of the swing actuator. (2) The slider must be as small as possible to be stable because the very low flying height makes the slider tend to vibrate unstably. (3) High spacing mode must be avoided to stabilize the negative-pressure slider used in constant density recording (CDR) suitable for high-density magnetic media.
Cite this article as:
Y. Takeuchi and K. Tanaka, “Basic Design Guide Proposal on Nanometer Flying-Height Slider for Small Magnetic Disk Drives,” J. Robot. Mechatron., Vol.17 No.5, pp. 509-516, 2005.
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