Title :
Introduction of femto slider in mobile disk drives
Author :
Dorius, Lee ; Bolasna, Sandy ; Kotla, John ; Simmons, Randy ; Iihara, Yasuhiro ; Matsumoto, Tsuyoshi ; Tobari, Atsushi ; Tsuchida, Hiroyasu
Author_Institution :
Hitachi Global Storage Technol. Inc., San Jose, CA, USA
Abstract :
This paper introduces the first femto slider in a mobile disk drive. The use of femto sliders provide improvements in real estate utilization, power consumption, and shock resistance while maintaining comparable performance to pico in other attributes. The reduced size of the femto slider also improves manufacturing efficiency by increasing the number of devices per wafer.
Keywords :
disc drives; magnetic heads; data storage; femto slider; head-medium interface; magnetic recording heads; magnetic recording media; mobile disk drives; power consumption; real estate utilization; shock resistance; Costs; Disk drives; Disk recording; Electric shock; Energy consumption; Magnetic heads; Magnetic recording; Manufacturing industries; Productivity; Sea surface;
Journal_Title :
Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TMAG.2003.821153
