Magnetic recording disk carbon overcoats are lubricated with nanometer thick films of perfluoropolyether lubricant. It is well-known that lubricant thickness redistribution takes place due to air shear stress oscillation at air bearing resonant frequencies and also due to shear stress oscillation induced by disk topography waves on test tracks. We extended this work to demonstrate correlation between surface topography and lubricant redistribution on whole disk surfaces. Lubricant moguls are shown to form over regions of the disk surface which have topography waves that are half the slider length, and the lubricant thickness peak is out of phase down track from the topography peak height. There is a critical relative humidity above 20% beyond which moguls are readily formed by the slider flying at 10 nm without thermal fly height control. The significance of the lubricant redistribution for drive magnetic performance has long been the subject of debate. These results demonstrate that lubricant thickness redistribution on the order of atomic diameters can degrade magnetic performance, and that the surface topography waves alone can degrade areal density by as much as 2%.
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ASME 2017 Conference on Information Storage and Processing Systems collocated with the ASME 2017 International Technical Conference and Exhibition on Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems
August 29–30, 2017
San Francisco, California, USA
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- Information Storage and Processing Systems Division
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978-0-7918-5810-3
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Correlation of Disk Topography Waves With Nanometer Scale Lubricant Moguls
Andrey Ovcharenko,
Andrey Ovcharenko
Western Digital Corporation, San Jose, CA
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Jih-Ping Peng
Jih-Ping Peng
Western Digital Corporation, San Jose, CA
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Andrey Ovcharenko
Western Digital Corporation, San Jose, CA
Tom Karis
TEK Data Systems, Aromas, CA
Jih-Ping Peng
Western Digital Corporation, San Jose, CA
Paper No:
ISPS2017-5401, V001T01A001; 3 pages
Published Online:
October 30, 2017
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Ovcharenko, A, Karis, T, & Peng, J. "Correlation of Disk Topography Waves With Nanometer Scale Lubricant Moguls." Proceedings of the ASME 2017 Conference on Information Storage and Processing Systems collocated with the ASME 2017 International Technical Conference and Exhibition on Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems. ASME 2017 Conference on Information Storage and Processing Systems. San Francisco, California, USA. August 29–30, 2017. V001T01A001. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/ISPS2017-5401
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