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Dynamics in the Bridged State of a Magnetic Recording Slider

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A novel region of tribological interaction is explored by inducing near contact between the magnetic recording slider and disk. In this study, we performed frictional measurements over a wide range of subambient air pressure and disk rotation rate. Since the slider is supported over the disk by an air bearing, it has been found that cycling from ambient to subambient and then back up to ambient pressure over several minutes of time forms a frictional hysteresis loop. The high-friction branch of the loop, referred to as the bridged state, is characterized by an average frictional displacement and resonant vibration of the suspension mount assembly. The bridged state is currently employed for accelerated wear testing of magnetic slider/disk/lubricant systems. Future magnetic recording systems designed to operate at increasingly lower physical spacing will need to take into account these frictional forces which accompany the incipient contact between the lubricated disk and slider with finite surface roughness. A single degree of freedom model is solved to determine the equivalent dynamic friction force on the slider as an impulse series with random impulse frequency and amplitude from the measured frictional displacement in the bridged state. The mean slider-disk spacing in the bridged state is derived from the experimental friction force, the spacing probability density function, and the adhesion stress from the Lifshitz model for dispersion interaction energy.

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We thank B. Marchon, P. Baumgart, M. Mate, V. Nayak, R. Payne, B. Knigge, F. Hendriks, and Q. Dai for technical discussions. The authors are also grateful to J. He, R. White, J. Hopkins, and R-H. Wang for their assistance with the investigations of surface indentations.

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    Thomas E. Karis, Xing-Cai Guo & Jia-Yang Juang

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Karis, T.E., Guo, XC. & Juang, JY. Dynamics in the Bridged State of a Magnetic Recording Slider. Tribol Lett 30, 123–140 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11249-008-9319-0

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