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Engineering, 2010, 2, 841-854 doi:10.4236/eng.2010.211107 Published Online November 2010 (/journal/eng). Design and Modeling of Femto Air Bearing Slider 1 1* 2 3 Ching F. Yong , Eddie Y. K. Ng , Wei D. Zhou , Wan K. Ng 1School of Mechanical Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore City, Singapore 2Data Storage Institute, (A*STAR) Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore City, Singapore 3The Australian School of Advanced Medicine, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia E-mail : mykng@.sg Received August 6, 2010; revised October 11, 2010; accepted October 12, 2010 Abstract This paper presents the studies of the performance of an improved femto air bearing slider which is opti- mized based on the past studies and effort. The flying characteristics performance of this novel femto slider is relatively stable over different radii. This optimized slider achieved a flying height of 3 nm, with variation of about 0.2 nm. The variations for pitch and roll values are 6 µrad and 0.9 µrad respectively. In the studies for the effect of side rail on flying characteristics, it was found that there exists transition of pitch value when the side rail is located very close to the leading edge. The modulation of flying height reduces greatly when the areas of double shallow steps increase. The roll variation reduces when the flat double shallow steps pro- file is modified into a “V-Shape” profile. Keywords: Femto Air Bearing, Performance, Slider Design, Modeling, Simulation, Optimization 1. Introduction modulation performance using femto slider as compared