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 …

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 …

Various contact recording technologies for hard disk drives are reviewed. The advantages
and disadvantages of each approach to contact recording are analyzed. Experimental …

This paper employs higher order frequency response functions to describe the closed-form
solution of nonlinear dynamics of MEMS thermal actuated flying-height control (TFC) slider …

Growth in the demand for higher capacity hard disk drives has pushed the requirement for
head-media spacing to sub-nanometer levels. The drop in operational clearance makes a …

Recent growth in the cloud storage industry has created a massive demand for higher
capacity hard disk drives (HDD). A sub-nanometer head media spacing (HMS) remains the …

The interaction between the thermal fly height control (TFC) slider and disk is investigated by
reader signal with laser Doppler vibrometer and acoustic emission signals used as a …

Contact and interfacial temperature rise upon slider-disk contact in hard disk drives is
investigated using thermal flying height control (TFC) sliders. To achieve contact, the heater …

Since the introduction of the IBM 305 RAMAC system in 1956, performance and storage
capacities of hard disk drives have improved tremendously. To reliably read and write data …

Lube-surfing recording combined with thermal fly-height control (TFC) technology is
considered as a promising head-disk interface (HDI) scheme for further increasing magnetic …