Abstract: A Michelson interferometer based on the Linnik microscope configuration has been constituted and applied to the measurement of lubricant spreading on diamond-like-carbon (DLC) surface. Performing ...

Abstract: Spreading characteristics of molecularly thin lubricant on a grooved surface have been studied numerically by Monte Carlo simulations and compared with measurements obtained by perfluoropolyether ...

Abstract: Effects of molecular weight and end-group functionality on spreading of molecularly thin perfluoropolyether (PFPE) film over solid surfaces with groove-shaped textures have been studied by experiments ...

Abstract: Using a coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulation based on the bead-spring polymer model, we reproduced the film distribution of molecularly thin lubricant films with polar end groups coated ...

Abstract: A spacing measurement using Michelson laser interferometry was developed for measuring the head-disk spacing in a hard disk drive. This method utilizes the phase comparison of two kinds of ...

Abstract: We demonstrated the direct visualization of molecularly thin lubricant films on magnetic disks with a thickness resolution of 0.1 nm by using an ellipsometric microscope with a white light ...

Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the effect of lube textures from the viewpoint of lubricant spreading. Lube textures, designating a patterned distribution of bonding strength between lubricant ...

Abstract: Spring constants and damping coefficients of a thin lubricant bridge of a perfluoropolyether (PFPE) lubricant intervening between a diamond probe tip and a diamond-like carbon (DLC) surface of ...