This paper reviews the state of the head‐disk interface (HDI) technology, and more
particularly the head‐medium spacing (HMS), for today's and future hard‐disk drives …

Since the publication of the best-selling first edition, the growing price and environmental
cost of energy have increased the significance of tribology. Handbook of Lubrication and …

Thermal fly-height control sliders that are capable of subnanometer level actuation are used
to investigate the vertical, down-track, and off-track slider dynamics in slider-disk lubricant …

When the magnetic spacing in hard disk drives is reduced to sub-3 nm, contact between the
slider and disk becomes inevitable. Stability analysis is used in this study to investigate the …

To further increase the areal storage density of hard disk drive, one solution is to reduce the
spacing between the magnetic head and disk to sub-1-nm regime. Such ultra-low spacing …

We report experimental findings and simulation results that identify distinct dynamical
phases during the light touchdown between the flying head and ultra-thin perfluoropolyether …

To investigate the possibility of further lowering the clearance in head–disk interface
systems, slider dynamic behavior during a touchdown sequence with a thermal flying-height …

Thermal fly-height control sliders are widely used in current hard disk drives to control and
maintain subnanometer level clearance between the read-write head and the disk. The …

Reducing the head-media spacing is of crucial importance in enabling future high density
magnetic recording. Fly and lubricant contact interface, or surfing recording, is one of the …

The adhesion and friction properties of molecularly thin perfluoropolyether (PFPE) lubricant
films dip-coated on a diamond-like carbon (DLC) overcoat of magnetic disks were studied …