Abstract: A model to establish the correlation between wear in constant speed drag testing and contact start/stop testing is developed. The model is based on the Archard wear equation and uses the ...

Abstract: The effects on tribological performance of air bearing surface overcoats on magnetic recording sliders are presented. Both component level and disk drive level testing indicate that significant ...

Abstract: Scanning Electron Microscopy and optical profilometer studies were conducted to study the wear of unlubricated thin-film magnetic recording disks overcoated with carbon as well as silver and ...