Spherical and non-spherical colloidal silica size and shape were characterized and its
effects on aluminum alloy nickel plated (Al-NiP) hard disk substrate during chemical …

The manufacturing of hard disk drives involves the intricate assembly of numerous
components, making the testing process time-consuming and resource intensive. To …

Head wear of thermal flying height control sliders is studied experimentally by (a) comparing
the touch-down power before and after a wear test consisting of 300 consecutive touch …

In this study, a thermo-mechanical finite element model was developed for the response of a
thermal asperity sensor sliding against a disk asperity. The temperature change of the …

The formation of defects on a magnetic recording disk is one of the critical issues in the
reliability of a hard disk drive. When a magnetic recording head comes into contact with a …

In order to achieve higher recording density in hard disk drive (HDD), thermal flying-height
control (TFC) slider design has been used to reduce the physical spacing between the …

Deployment of machine learning techniques are prevailing in world-wide problem solving.
Hard disk drive manufacturing is another prominent field seeking for the application of these …

A time dependent Reynolds equation simulator combined with a finite element-based
transient contact model between a slider and a disk asperity is used to study slider dynamics …

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 …

The mechanical and thermal response of a rigid sphere sliding over an elastic–plastic
sphere with radius larger than that of the rigid sphere, namely, plowing contact model, are …