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- A Particle-Level Study of Smear Buildup in Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording Disk Drives, Roshan Mathew Tom, PhD Thesis, Summer 2024. [PDF]
- Thermal Transport, Thermal Protrusion, and Thermally-Induced Material Transfer in the Head-Disk Interface of Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording, Qilong Cheng, PhD Thesis, Fall 2021. [PDF]
- A Viscous Model for Lubricant Transfer from Media to Head during Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR), Siddhesh V. Sakhalkar, MS Thesis, Spring 2019. [PDF]
- Lubricant Behavior under Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) Conditions, Mohammad Soroush Ghahri Sarabi, PhD Thesis, Spring 2017. [PDF]
- Synthesis and Characterization of Amorphous Carbon Films for Magnetic Storage Technology, Jun Xie, PhD Thesis, Fall 2015 [PDF]
- Lubricant Flow and De-wetting at the Head-Disk Interface of a Hard Disk Drive, Alejandro R. Mendez, PhD Thesis, Fall 2015. [PDF]
- Some Tribological Aspects of the Hard Disk Drive Head-Disk Interface for Quasi Contact Conditions: Contact Detection, Lubricant Modulation and Wear, Yung-Kan Chen, PhD Thesis, Fall 2015. [PDF]
- Direct and Indirect Adaptive Feedforward Repetitive Control of Servo Systems, Behrooz Shahsavari, PhD Thesis, Fall 2015 [PDF]
- Numerical Investigation of the Effect of Operational Shock and Disk Surface Pattern on the Dynamics of Head Disk Interface in Hard Disk Drives, PhD Thesis, Liping Li, Summer 2013. [PDF]
- Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording Head-Disk Interface: Numerical Simulation of Air Bearing and Lubricant Mechanics, Joanna B. Dahl, PhD Thesis, Fall 2013. [PDF]
- Synthesis, Characterization, and Molecular Dynamics Analysis of Ultrathin Amorphous Carbon Films, Na Wang, PhD Thesis, Fall 2013. [PDF]
- Dynamics and Stability of Thermal Flying-height Control Sliders in Hard Disk Drives, Jinglin Zheng, PhD Thesis, Spring 2012. [PDF]
- Discrete-Time H2 Guaranteed Cost Control, Richard A. Conway, PhD Thesis, Spring 2011. [PDF]
- Thermal Fly-height Control Slider Dynamics and Slider-Lubricant Interactions in Hard Disk Drives, Sripathi V. Canchi, PhD Thesis, Spring 2011. [PDF]
- Numerical Investigation of Operational Shock and Vibrations in Mobile Hard Disk Drives, Rahul Rai, PhD Thesis, Spring 2011. [PDF]
- Control Design and Implementation of Hard Disk Drive Servos, Jianbin Nie, PhD Thesis, Spring 2011 [PDF]
- Hi Precision Tracking Control Applied to Spiral Servo Writing in Hard Disk Drives, Xu Chen, Master’s Thesis, May 2010. [PDF]
- Application of Rarefied Gas Dynamics to the Head-Disk Interface in Hard Disk Drives, Nan Liu, PhD Thesis, June 2010. [PDF]
- Integration of Piezoelectric Sensing and Control for Nano-Scale Vibration Suppression in Hard Disk Drives, Sarah H. Felix, PhD Thesis, Spring 2010. [PDF]
- Multi-objective Control Design for Discrete-Time Periodic Systems via Convex Optimization, Richard Conway, Master’s Thesis, January 2009. [PDF]
- Experimental Investigation of Slider-Lubricant Interaction in Hard Disk Drives, Sean Moseley, Ph.D. Thesis, Spring 2009. [PDF]
- Surface Modification by Filtered Cathodic Vacuum Arc and Nanomechanical Properties of Thin-Film Media, Cu-Al-Ni Shape-Memory Alloy, and Surface-Textured Silicon, Hanshen Zhang, Ph.D. Thesis, Fall 2009. [PDF]
- The Effect of Thermal Creep Flow in a Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording System, Joanna Bechtel, Master’s Thesis, Fall 2009. [PDF]
- Dynamic Stability And Slider-Lubricant Interactions In Hard- Disk Drives, Rohit Pradeep Ambekar, PhD Thesis, Spring 2007. [PDF]
- Air Bearing Slider Dynamics and Stability in Hard Disk Drives, Vineet Gupta, PhD Thesis, Spring 2007. [PDF]
- Micro-scale Fixtures and Positioning Stage For Dual-Stage Hard Disk Drive Assembly, Sarah Felix, Masters Thesis, Fall 2007. [PDF]
- Analytical and Numerical Contact Analyses of Semi-Infinite Media With Patterned and Rough Surfaces, Zhong-Qing Gong, PhD Thesis, Spring 2004. [PDF]
- The Effect of Contamination Particles on the Dynamics of Ultra-Low Flying Air Bearing Sliders, Xinjiang Shen, PhD Thesis, Spring 2004. [PDF]
- Dynamic Contact and Friction Study of Homogeneous and Layered Media, Jian Yang, PhD Thesis, Fall 2004. [PDF]
- Sputter Deposition Synthesis and Characterization of Thin Films: Amorphous Carbon and TiNi Shape Memory Alloys, Dujiang Wan, PhD Thesis, Fall 2004. [PDF]
- Investigation into nanoindentation-induced ‘pop-in’ phenomena under the monitoring of acoustic emission, Xiaoguang Ma, MS Project Report, Spring 2003. [PDF]
- Off-Track Vibrations of the Read-Write Heads in Hard Disk Drives, Hany Gross, PhD Thesis, Spring 2003. [PDF]
- Head-Disk Interface Dynamics of Ultra-Low Flying Air Bearing Sliders for Hard-Disk Drive Applications, Brian Thornton, PhD Thesis, Spring 2003. [PDF]
- Dual-Stage Servo Control and Active Vibration Compensation in Magnetic Hard Disk Drives, Yunfeng Li, PhD Thesis, Fall 2003. [PDF]
- Tribology of Carbon Films as Protective Overcoats for High Areal Density Disk Drive Applications, Walt Fong, PhD Thesis, Spring 2002. [PDF]
- Contact Mechanics of Elastic-Plastic Layered Media With Smooth and Rough Surfaces, Ning Ye, PhD Thesis, Spring 2002. [PDF]
- Global Optimization of Slider Air Bearing Design, Hong Zhu, PhD Thesis, Fall 2002 [PDF]
- Physical Modeling and Numerical Simulations of the Slider Air Bearing Problem of Hard Disk Drives, Lin Wu, PhD Thesis, Spring 2001, [PDF]
- Robust Tuning of Fixed Structure Controllers for Hard Disk Drives, Bo Zhu, PhD Thesis, Fall 2001, [PDF]
- Design and Fabrication of PZT-Actuated Silicon Suspensions for Hard Disk Drives, Tsung-Lin Chen, PhD Thesis, Fall 2001 [PDF]
- Robust Servo Design for Dual-Stage Disk Drives, Daniel J. Hernandez, Master’s Thesis, Spring 1999 [PDF]
- Fabrication and Evaluation of 5nm Cathodic-Arc Carbon Films for Disk Drive Applications, Walton Fong, MS Project Report, Fall 1999 [PDF]
- Tribochemistry of the Decomposition Mechanisms of Perfluoropolyether Lubricants at the Head-Disk Interface of Hard Disk Drives in UHV, Chao-Yuan Chen, Ph.D. Thesis, Fall 1999 [PDF]
- Nanotribology and Nanometrics of Ultra Thin Films for Hard Disk Drives, Yu Lo, Ph.D. Thesis, Fall 1999 [PDF]
- Sputtering Deposition and Characterization of Ultrathin Amorphous Carbon Films, Wei Lu, Ph.D. Thesis, Fall 1999 [Unavailable]
- Adaptive Servo Schemes using Micromachined Accelerometers for Increased Disturbance Rejection for Magnetic Hard Disk Drives, Satinderpall Singh Pannu, Doctoral Dissertation, June 1998 [PDF]
- A study of rarefied and contact air bearing modeling for hard disk drives using the direct simulation Monte Carlo method, Weidong Huang, PhD Thesis, 1998 [PDF]
- Control techniques for increased disturbance rejection and tracking accuracy in magnetic disk drives, Matthew White, PhD Thesis, May 1997 [PDF]
- Relative wear durability of advanced slider coatings on carbon-coated disks, Kamau Bobb, MS Thesis, June 1997 [PDF]
- Optimization of hard disk drive components, Matthew O’Hara, PhD Thesis, July 1997 [PDF]
- Numerical simulation of slider air bearings, Sha Lu, PhD Thesis, August 1997 [PDF]
- Numerical investigations of particle contamination and thermal effects in a slider disk interface, Shuyu Zhang, PhD Thesis, December 1997 [PDF]
- Head-disk-suspension dynamics, Yong Hu, PhD Thesis, April 1996 [PDF]
- TRIBOCHEMICAL STUDY OF HYDROGENATED AND NITROGENATED CARBON OVERCOATS AT THE HEAD DISK INTERFACE IN MAGNETIC HARD DRIVES, Xiaohan Yun, Doctoral Dissertation, June 1996
- EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF DISK WAVINESS EFFECTS ON PROXIMITY AIR BEARING SLIDERS, Charles Bair, M.S. Project Report, December 1996.
- EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF HEAD-DISK INTERFACE DYNAMICS UNDER THE CONDITION OF NEAR-CONTACT RECORDING FOR MAGNETIC DISK DRIVES, Mark Joseph Donovan, Doctoral Dissertation, May 1995
- DESIGN, FABRICATION, POSITION SENSING, AND CONTROL OF ELECTROSTATIC, SURFACE-MICROMACHINED POLYSILICON MICROACTUATORS, Patrick Ching-Pak Cheung, Doctoral Dissertation, May 1995
- WIENER FILTER BASED ADAPTIVE CONTROL WITH APPLICATIONS TO THE DESIGN OF DISK FILE SERVOS, Bo Li, Doctoral Dissertation, May 1995
- EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS OF NANOTRIBOLOGY AND ITS APPLICATIONS TO THE HEAD DISK INTERFACE OF MAGNETIC RECORDING, Zhaoguo Jiang, Doctoral Dissertation, December 1995
- DYNAMIC LOAD HEAD-DISK INTERACTIONS AND INTERFACE DURABILITY IN MAGNETIC DISK DRIVES, Ta-Chang Fu, Doctoral Dissertation, December 1995
- MULTIRATE AND VARIABLE-RATE ESTIMATION AND CONTROL OF SYSTEMS WITH LIMITED MEASUREMENTS WITH APPLICATIONS TO INFORMATION STORAGE DEVICES, Anthony Mark Phillips, Doctoral Dissertation, December 1995
- HEAD-DISK INTERFACE DYNAMICS OF A PROXIMITY AIR BEARING SLIDER WITH VARIOUS DISK SUBSTRATES AND FLEXURE-GIMBAL DESIGNS, Richard J. Blanco, M.S. Project Report, December 1995.
- STUDY OF TRIBOLOGICAL BEHAVIOR OF THIN-FILM MAGNETIC HARD DISKS USING SCRATCH TESTS AND ACOUSTIC EMISSION, Hong Li, Doctoral Dissertation, January 1994
- CHARACTERIZATION OF MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF THIN FILMS BY SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY, Chung-Jen Lu, Doctoral Dissertation, April 1994
- EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF UNSTEADY BLUFF BODY FLOWS, Raghuram Devarakonda, Doctoral Dissertation, April 1994
- NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE FLOW BETWEEN A PAIR OF DISKS COROTATING IN A CYLINDRICAL ENCLOSURE, Immaculada Iglesias, Doctoral Dissertation, April 1994
- DESIGN OF SERVO SYSTEMS FOR DISTURBANCE REJECTION AND APPLICATIONS TO DISK FILE STORAGE SYSTEMS, Carl John Kempf, Doctoral Dissertation, April 1994
- GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION OF SLIDER AIR BEARING DESIGNS, Matthew A. O’Hara, M.S. Degree Plan II Project, December 1994.
- INVESTIGATION OF THE FLOW BETWEEN OBSTRUCTED COROTATING DISKS IN ENCLOSURES, William Raleigh Usry, Doctoral Dissertation, January 1993.
- TRIBOCHEMISTRY OF THIN FILM MAGNETIC RECORDING DISKS, Brian Douglas Strom, May 1993, Doctoral Dissertation
- NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF HEAD-DISK ASSEMBLY DYNAMICS FOR SHAPED-RAIL SLIDERS WITH SUB-AMBIENT PRESSURE REGIONS, Ellis Taeho Cha, May 1993, Doctoral Dissertation
- MODAL ANALYSIS OF MINIATURE STRUCTURES WITH APPLICATION TO COMPONENTS IN MAGNETIC RECORDING DISK DRIVES, Carol Jean Wilson, May 1993, Doctoral Dissertation
- HARDNESS OF ULTRA-THIN LAYERS: EXPERIMENTS AND FINITE ELEMENT MODELING, Edward Robert Kral, August 1993, Doctoral Dissertation
- EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECTS OF VENTILATION IN COROTATING DISK FLOWS, Dorothy Gor, September 1993, Doctoral Dissertation.
- HEAD-DISK INTERFACE DYNAMICS OF THE CENSTOR MICRO FLEXHEAD CONTACT RECORDING SYSTEM, by Mark Donovan, M.S. Degree Plan II, March 1992.
- STABILITY ANALYSIS OF A SPINNING FLEXIBLE DISK-STATIONARY LOAD SYSTEM: APPLICATION TO FLOPPY DISK DRIVES, by Jen-San Chen, Doctoral Dissertation, May 1992.
- ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES OF THE TRIBOLOGY OF THIN FILM CERAMIC OVERCOATS, by John Ko-Jen Chen, Master of Science Theses, May 1992.
- CUTEFLOWS (Computing Unsteady Three-dimensional Elliptic Flows), A User’s Manual, by C.A. Schuler, E.B. Treidler, and J.A.C. Humphrey, July, 1991.
- SLIDER-DISK INTERACTIONS DURING DYNAMIC LOAD-UNLOAD IN MAGNETIC RECORDING DISK DRIVES, by Tae Gun Jeong, Ph.D. Dissertation, October, 1991.
- HEAD-DISK INTERFACE STUDIES IN MAGNETIC DISK DRIVES, by Mike Suk, Ph.D. Dissertation, October, 1991.