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Investigations of thermal asperity sensors in thermal flying-height control sliders

  • Chuanwei Zhang*
  • , Andrey Ovcharenko
  • , Min Yang
  • , Neil Knutson
  • , Frank E. Talke
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • School of Mechatronics Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology
  • Western Digital
  • University of California at San Diego

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Abstract

The characteristics of a thermal asperity sensor for detecting slider/disk asperity contact were investigated. A thermomechanical finite element model was used to determine the temperature change of the thermal asperity sensor while sliding against a disk asperity. The effect of sensor size and operational temperature, disk asperity material properties, and contact conditions were investigated.

Original languageEnglish
Article number6971547
JournalIEEE Transactions on Magnetics
Volume50
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Nov 2014
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Slider/disk asperity contact
  • temperature change
  • thermal asperity sensors

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