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Advances in a digital network society require both higher density and higher transfer rates in all sorts of storage systems. Even in optical recording, the trend toward higher density and larger capacity requires novel surface-recording technologies that can drastically diminish head-to-medium spacing, resulting in an improvement in spatial resolution and, finally, a higher recording density. In this paper, we propose a novel contact optical head slider that is able to almost cancel the suspension load by generating hydrodynamic pressure, thus realizing a lower net contact force. A trial-manufactured contact slider being processed four sliding pads on air-bearing surfaces has indicated a gentle variation of both the acoustic emission signal intensity and the friction force as the circumferential velocity changes. Furthermore, a time-domain simulation was performed to investigate the effects of the damping of a medium surface (lubricant) both on slider bouncing and on contact force.
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Received: 5 July 2001/Accepted: 1 November 2001
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Ohkubo, T., Shou, N., Tanaka, K. et al. Mechanical characteristics of a contact optical head slider operating on a metal-layered medium. Microsystem Technologies 8, 235–243 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00542-001-0150-x
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00542-001-0150-x