A Slider With an Integrated Microactuator (SLIM) for Second Stage Actuation in Hard Disc Drives
A slider with an integrated microactuator (SLIM) was devised, which is capable of actuating a read-write element of a hard disc drive (HDD) in both vertical direction (adjusting the flying height) and in lateral direction (allowing second stage actuation). The read-write element is located on a chip...
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Published in | IEEE transactions on magnetics Vol. 44; no. 11; pp. 3726 - 3729 |
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Main Authors | , , , |
Format | Journal Article Conference Proceeding |
Language | English |
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New York, NY
IEEE
01.11.2008
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) |
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Summary: | A slider with an integrated microactuator (SLIM) was devised, which is capable of actuating a read-write element of a hard disc drive (HDD) in both vertical direction (adjusting the flying height) and in lateral direction (allowing second stage actuation). The read-write element is located on a chiplet attached to a mounting platform. A pair of integrated electromagnetic microactuators appropriately activates this mounting platform and thus the read-write element. This design promises a cost competitive solution for HDD recording head microactuation. While the SLIM design as well as the thin-film fabrication of the SLIM component parts were completed, a 40 : 1 model allowed for initial system level experimental measurements which indicate a good agreement between the performance of the model and the actual SLIM device. |
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Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-1 content type line 23 |
ISSN: | 0018-9464 1941-0069 |
DOI: | 10.1109/TMAG.2008.2002592 |