Abstract: There are disk-drive data storage applications best served by single-sided recording configurations. These include situations where (i) storage requirements can be achieved on a single side of a ...

Abstract: Design of a near contact air bearing interface such as that created by a recording head slider and data storage disk requires consideration of a lubrication equation that is appropriate for ...

Abstract: The current effort was motivated by the increasing appearance of data storage devices in small portable and mobile product formats and the need for these devices to deliver high storage capacity, ...

Abstract: This paper describes the derivation and numerical solution of a lubrication equation appropriate for high Knudsen number flows and certain types of striated rough surfaces. The derivation begins ...

Abstract: A metal foil disk offers some of the best characteristics of both the hard disk and floppy disk for digital data storage. The current work defines an opposed slider air-bearing arrangement ...

Abstract: Current industrial applications require a consideration of two-dimensional surface roughness effects in design and optimization of fluid bearings. Although the influence of striated surface roughness ...

Abstract: Discrete track recording (DTR) is a method for increasing the recording density of a data storage disk by use of a pattern arrangement of discrete tracks. The DTR track structure consists of ...

Abstract: Low clearance gas bearing applications require an understanding of surface roughness effects at increased levels of Knudsen number. Because very little information has been reported on the relative ...

Abstract: The current effort was motivated largely by the fact that computing and communication platforms are becoming more portable and mobile with increased demands for both speed and disk storage. ...