CHARACTERIZATION OF CHANGE OF CARBON BONDING DUE TO SLIDING WEAR DAMAGE BY SCANNING AUGER MICROSCOPY

Authors
YEH TA LIN CL SIVERTSEN JM JUDY JH CHEN GL
Citation
Ta. Yeh et al., CHARACTERIZATION OF CHANGE OF CARBON BONDING DUE TO SLIDING WEAR DAMAGE BY SCANNING AUGER MICROSCOPY, IEEE transactions on magnetics, 29(6), 1993, pp. 3939-3941
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic","Physics, Applied
Journal title
IEEE transactions on magnetics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00189464
Volume
29
Issue
6
Year of publication
1993
Part
2
Pages
3939 - 3941
Database
ISI
SICI code
0018-9464(1993)29:6<3939:COCOCB>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
The alteration of carbon bonding resulting from the continuous frictio nal heating between a magnetic head slider and a rotating thin film ri gid disk has been investigated. This change of carbon bonding from dia mondlike amorphous carbon phase to graphite phase was inspected by Sca nning Auger Microscopy (SAM). As near and direct contact recording are being considered for future high density disk drives, this phase tran sformation of the protective carbon overcoating could result in failur e of the head-disk interface.