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 …

In a hard disk drive (HDD), when the spacing between the flying head and the rotating disk
approximates the molecular mean-free path or less, the gas dynamics cannot be described …

This paper presents a theoretical and numerical study on the heat conduction of gas
confined in a cuboid nanopore, in which there exists a temperature difference between 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 present study concerns the depletion of thin lubricant film on a disk surface subject to
repeated heating by a scanning laser in a heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) system …

Ionic liquids (ILs) could be promising candidates for heat-assisted magnetic recording media
due to their extraordinary properties such as considerably thinner monolayer (ML) thickness …

The physics of the heat conduction and viscous dissipation in rarefied gases is analyzed
and discussed. A heat transfer model valid for arbitrary Knudsen numbers, defined as the …

To sustain an ultra-low and stable flying height (FH) is crucial for achieving high areal
densities in magnetic recording. Recently, a new method called thermal flying height control …

This paper presents a numerical investigation of heat transfer and lubricant depletion on the
hard disk in a heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) system. The heat is induced by a …

Reducing the spacing between the magnetic head and the magnetic media is of crucial
importance in enabling future high-density magnetic data storage. The magnetic spacing …