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 …

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 …

Reducing the spacing between the magnetic head and the magnetic disk media is of crucial
importance in enabling further increased recording density of the magnetic disk drives. The …

Recent advances in hard-disk drive technology involve the use of a thermal fly-height control
(TFC) pole tip protrusion to bring the read/write recording elements of the slider closer to the …

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 …

In the effort to achieve Tbit/inch 2 recording densities, thermal fly-height control (TFC)
nanotechnology was developed to effectively reduce the clearance (which is of the order of …

As head-disk clearance has been reduced to nearly 1 nm, and a partial lube-contact head-
disk interface (HDI) may even be necessary to meet future magnetic spacing needs, precise …

The evaluation of submonolayer lubricant mobility is becoming important in the field of
nanotribology, in particular, in hard disk drives for realizing the near-contact or surfing …

In this study, the design theory of a previously proposed contact head slider was extended
by considering a thermally protruding head slider and the intermolecular adhesive force …