Effects of Mobile and Chemically Bonded Molecules of Molecularly Thin Lubricant Film on the Vibrational Stability of a Sliding Ball

Author(s):  
Kentaro Tanaka ◽  
Masahiro Kawaguchi ◽  
Takahisa Kato ◽  
Katsumi Iwamoto

Lubrication by an extremely thin film has become very important in micro machines, magnetic recording disks and so on. Molecularly thin perfluoropolyether (PFPE) films are considered a good lubricant for these micro devices. When the thickness of the PFPE film is thinned to several nanometers, it is possible to assume that the film consists of mobile and chemically bonded molecules. In this paper, we investigated the role of these molecules from the viewpoint of the vibrational stability of the sliding ball with the disk surface. From experiments by the ball on disk type tribotester, it is found that chemically bonded molecules prevent direct contact between the slider and the disk surface. Furthermore, when mobile molecules exist on bonded molecules, the stability is improved in wide load range.

2005 ◽  
Vol 128 (1) ◽  
pp. 176-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kentaro Tanaka ◽  
Masahiro Kawaguchi ◽  
Takahisa Kato ◽  
Katsumi Iwamoto

Lubrication by an extremely thin film has become very important in micromachines, magnetic recording disks, and so on. Molecularly thin perfluoropolyether (PFPE) films are considered a good lubricant for these micro devices. When the thickness of the PFPE film is thinned to several nanometers, it is possible to assume that the film consists of mobile and bonded molecules. In this paper, we investigated the role of these molecules from the viewpoint of the vibrational stability of the sliding ball with the disk surface. From experiments by the ball on disk type tribotester, it is found that both mobile and bonded molecules exist on the disk surface, the bouncing vibration of the sliding ball can be reduced wide load range. In the case where only mobile or only bonded molecules exists, there is little effect on the bouncing vibration.


1996 ◽  
Vol 79 (8) ◽  
pp. 5342 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. A. Ross ◽  
M. E. Schabes ◽  
R. Ranjan ◽  
G. Bertero ◽  
T. Chen

1996 ◽  
Vol 79 (8) ◽  
pp. 5345 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. M. Kemner ◽  
V. G. Harris ◽  
V. Chakarian ◽  
Y. U. Idzerda ◽  
W. T. Elam ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Norio Tagawa ◽  
Hideki Andoh ◽  
Hiroshi Tani

In this study, fundamental research on lubricant depletion due to laser heating in thermally assisted magnetic recording was conducted. In particular, the effect of lubricant film thickness on lubricant depletion was investigated. The conventional lubricant Zdol2000 was used. As a result, it was found that the lubricant depletion characteristics due to laser heating depend largely on the lubricant film thickness. In addition, it was suggested that the lubricant depletion mechanism involves the evaporation of the mobile lubricant molecules, when the maximum attained temperature is not very high. Another suggested lubricant depletion mechanism involves the thermocapillary stress effect induced by the disk surface temperature gradient resulting from the non-uniformity of the laser spot intensity distribution.


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (25) ◽  
pp. 7627-7635 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Jaehnike ◽  
Duy Vu Pham ◽  
Claudia Bock ◽  
Ulrich Kunze

We study the effect of gallium and yttrium doping on both the electrical performance and the stability of indium based metal-oxide thin-film transistors (MOTFTs) at varied concentrations.


1993 ◽  
Vol 311 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.Peter Jardine

ABSTRACTThe role of stress on the phase evolution of thin-film TiNi has not been investigated and may play an important role in the phase evolution of thin film TiNi. In this paper, a preliminary set of phase diagrams for Ni-Ti at different pressures are presented relating the stability of the stoichiometric TiNi phase to the other well-documented intermetallics TiNi3 and NiTi2. It is found that for sufficient pressure of the order of a GPa, the region where NiTi (β) phase is single phase shifts towards the Ti-rich side of the diagram. The implications on the annealing of TiNi thin film is discussed.


2000 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 251-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tetsuo AMEMIYA ◽  
Nobuyuki YOSHINO ◽  
Yoshio UMEDA ◽  
Yoshimasa NIHEI

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