Abstract
Recently, the space between the flying head slider and the disk has been reduced to I Onm or less. Consequently, recording media with grooves such as discrete track media (DTM) and bit-patterned media (BPM), are considered to be some of the most promising media for achieving ultrahigh track densities. Thus, it is becoming increasingly important to analyze the static and dynamic characteristics of flying head sliders over DTM/BPM media using the molecular gas-film lubrication (MGL) equation. In this paper, we first use the perturbation method in the frequency domain to obtain not only the stiffness and damping produced by the air film but also the negative stiffness caused by the attractive van der Waals (vdW) force. The perturbation method was applied to a slider with 3 degrees-of-freedom (3-DOF) over an asymmetric groove-slider configuration, which caused a rolling motion in addition to translational and pitching motions. The dependence of the dynamic characteristics such as spacing fluctuations on the groove wave number (frequency) were numerically obtamed.
