• DocumentCode
    792720
  • Title

    Silicon micromachined electromagnetic microactuators for rigid disk drives

  • Author

    Tang, Weilong ; Temesvary, Viktoria ; Miller, Raanan ; Desai, Amish ; Tai, Yu-Chong ; Miu, Denny E.

  • Author_Institution
    Mech. Eng., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Volume
    31
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    1995
  • fDate
    11/1/1995 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    2964
  • Lastpage
    2966
  • Abstract
    It is projected that by the year 2001, the disk drive industry will be shipping products with track density on the order of 25,000 tracks-per-inch, which would require a servo bandwidth of at least 3 kHz. This paper presents initial fabrication results of an industry and government supported research project at Caltech and UCLA to develop piggyback electromagnetically driven microactuators for such applications, which are fabricated using the state-of-the-art silicon micromachining techniques
  • Keywords
    hard discs; microactuators; micromachining; silicon; 3 kHz; fabrication; piggyback electromagnetic microactuators; rigid disk drives; servo bandwidth; silicon micromachining; track density; Bandwidth; Disk drives; Fabrication; Government; Microactuators; Micromachining; Servomechanisms; Shipbuilding industry; Silicon; Textile industry;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9464
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/20.490204
  • Filename
    490204