slider posture effects on air bearing in a heat-assisted magnetic recording system滑块的姿势影响空气轴承在heat-assisted磁记录系统.pdf

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Tribology Volume 2012, Article ID 169207, 6 pages doi:10.1155/2012/169207 Research Article Slider Posture Effects on Air Bearing in a Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording System Kyaw Sett Myo,1 Weidong Zhou,1 Xiaoyang Huang,2 Shengkai Yu,1 and Wei Hua1 1 Data Storage Institute, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A∗STAR), DSI Building, 5 Engineering Drive 1, Singapore 117608 2 School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798 Correspondence should be addressed to Kyaw Sett Myo, myo kyaw sett@.sg Received 3 August 2012; Accepted 28 September 2012 Academic Editor: Jia-Yang Juang Copyright © 2012 Kyaw Sett Myo et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This paper reports the effects of slider posture on the slider bearing in a heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) system with the direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method. In this HAMR system, the heat issues on the slider bearings are assumed to be caused by a heated spot on the disk and/or slider body itself at various pitch angles. The simulation results show that with a heated spot on the disk, the air bearing pressure and air bearing force that acted on the slider surface will increase when the pitch angle becomes larger. It is also found that the bearing force increases with the heated spot size and the effects of a heated spot become more obvious at a larger pitch angle. On the other hand, the slider body temperature is observed to have a noticeable effect on air bearing pressure and force. The smaller pitch ang