... surface, or ABS, and includes etched features that properly distribute the forces generated by the viscous flow of air entrained between the ABS and the spinning disk. fluid bearing air bearing contamination hard disk drive particle flow disc drives flow hard discs surface...

.... machine bearings disc drives hard discs confined flow two-phase flow laminar flow surface contamination adhesion impact (mechanical) The governing equations for a particle moving in air can be written as (1) dx i dt = v i (2) m   dv i dt...

... February 1, 1999; revised manuscript received June 30, 1999. Paper No. 99-Trib-31. Associate Technical Editor: J. L. Streator. 10 October 1999 01 February 1999 30 June 1999 magnetic disc storage data integrity manufacturing processes surface contamination adhesion particle...

.... Streator. 08 February 1999 30 June 1999 magnetic disc storage magnetic heads interface phenomena organic compounds surface contamination surface chemistry failure (mechanical) lubrication Modern disk drives are extremely sensitive to small levels of contamination during...