...Sripathi Vangipuram Canchi; David B. Bogy Thermal fly-height control sliders are widely used in current hard disk drives to control and maintain subnanometer level clearance between the read-write head and the disk. The peculiar dynamics observed during touchdown/contact tests for certain slider...

...Chin-Hsiang Cheng; Mei-Hsia Chang The aim of this study is to design the shapes of the surfaces of sliders to meet the load demands specified by the designers. A direct problem solver is built to provide solutions for pressure distribution between the slider and the rotor for various geometric...