Numerical studies of thermal flying height control slider in hard disk drive

• Main Author: Chan, Ze Wei.
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Nanotechnology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/20782
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

As thermal flying height control (TFC) slider has been widely used in today's hard disk drive (HDD) industry for its advantages of easier control of flying height (FH) and less risk of contacts with the disk over conventional slider. The concept of a TFC slider is to use a heater embedded near...