Examining the physical and technical foundation for recent progress with this technique,
Applied Scanning Probe Methods offers a timely and comprehensive overview of SPM …

A new concept for energy efficient annealing of steel strip comprises of multiple rotating heat
pipes. Each heat pipe extracts heat from the cooling strip which is reused to increase the …

A flat head and a tape transport arrangement impart a wrap angle to the tape at the
upstream corner of the head. The wrap angle, corner sharpness and tape stiffness are …

A novel tape head contour is proposed that allows very small head tape spacing at high
velocities using three transverse bleed slots and a single radius cylindrical head. A finite …

The traction developed between a thin flexible web, wrapped around a non-vented, rotating
cylindrical roller is studied experimentally and theoretically. A series of eight webs …

A model for asperity contacts at the head/disk interface has been developed that allows for
elastic asperity deformations based on an experimentally derived function for the contact …

The effect of tape surface roughness on the head-tape interface is investigated for typical
head contours using tapes with different surface roughness characteristics. Intensity-based …

In conventional recording, tape wraps a cylindrically contoured head. The authors describe
an implementation in which tape contacts a flat-profile bidirectional recording head …

Web traction over rollers is known to deteriorate due to air entrainment at high web speeds.
In this paper, a general model is presented to predict the traction capability of an …

The fluid–structure interactions between a flexible web and an externally pressurized air
cushion are modeled allowing for the possibility of contact. The web is wrapped around a …