Abstract: The effect of lubricant on flyability and read-write performance in ultra-low flying regime has been studied over the disks with lubricant on one half of disk surface thicker than the other ...

Abstract: This paper studies natural frequencies and mode shapes of a glide head with a piezoelectric transducer (PZT) through calibrated experiments and a finite element analysis. In the experiments, the ...

Abstract: This paper studies forced response of PZT glide heads through calibrated experiments and finite element analyses. The PZT glide heads consist of an Al2O3TiC slider and a PZT transducer. In the ...