Title :
Behavior of molecularly thin lubricant films for contact sliders in hard disk drives
Author :
Tagawa, Norio ; Mori, Atsunobu
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mech. Eng., Kansai Univ., Japan
fDate :
31 Oct.-3 Nov. 2004
Abstract :
This paper describes the behavior of molecularly thin liquid lubricant films for contact sliders in hard disk drives. In the experiments, the ultra-thin liquid lubricants behavior is investigated using Zdol and cyclotriphosphazene-terminated PFPE lubricant which have different end-groups. It may be concluded that the functional end-groups play a very important role and affect the tribological performance of lubricants in head-disk interface.
Keywords :
hard discs; liquid films; lubricants; tribology; Zdol; contact sliders; cyclotriphosphazene-terminated PFPE lubricant; end-groups; hard disk drives; head-disk interface; molecularly thin liquid lubricant films; tribology; Atomic force microscopy; Chemicals; Hard disks; Lubricants; Magnetic films; Magnetic heads; Magnetic recording; Rough surfaces; Surface roughness; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Micro-Nanomechatronics and Human Science, 2004 and The Fourth Symposium Micro-Nanomechatronics for Information-Based Society, 2004. Proceedings of the 2004 International Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8607-8
DOI :
10.1109/MHS.2004.1421304
