Ming L. Yu, Lisa A. DeLouise
Surface Science Reports
To achieve an areal density approaching 50 Gb/in.2 for the magnetic storage of data in hard disk drives requires reduced mechanical and magnetic spacing. Off-track jitter caused by airflow or contact can cause track misregistration on the order of 20-70 nm which may be excessive for adequate servo performance. The magnetic signal can be used to identify both the vertical spacing modulation due to the air bearing modes and off-track jitter due to suspension modes with nanometer resolution. We find that the off-track jitter in the flying regime is driven by airflow and is a strong function of the disk velocity and the suspension type. In the contact regime, the vertical spacing modulation and off-track jitter increase due to contact. Using a laser Doppler vibrometer we identified the leading contribution to the off-track jitter to be primarily the first torsional mode (T1) and to a lesser extent the first bending mode (B1) of the suspension. © 2001 by ASME.
Ming L. Yu, Lisa A. DeLouise
Surface Science Reports
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