US20100142344A1 - Method for direct head-disk clearance measurement by slider vibration and fly height calibration - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates in general to measuring parameters of sliders and disks used in magnetic storage devices and, in particular, to a system, method and apparatus for measuring head-disk clearance by slider vibration and calibrating the fly height performance of sliders in disk drives.
- a slider containing magnetic transducers for reading and writing magnetic transitions is urged toward the rotating disk by a suspension. As the disk rotates an air bearing develops under the slider and causes it to fly above the disk. The distance between the slider and the disk surface is the clearance.
- the disk typically includes a thin film overcoat and a set of thin films which include one or more ferromagnetic layers in which information is recorded.
- a disk drive can contain multiple disks and multiple sliders.
- Embodiments of a system, method, and apparatus for measuring head-disk clearance and calibrating the fly height performance of disk drives are disclosed.
- the Wallace Spacing Loss formula or equation provides a conventional technique for calculating or predicting the fly height of a slider above a disk. However, it is calculated against a known scale and is in need of calibration.
- the head flies above the disk and is excited to vibrate (e.g., in a P2 resonance mode) so that the trailing edge or lowest point of the slider relative to the disk varies in distance with respect to the disk.
- the vibration may be accomplished by various methods, such as arm electronics or electrostatic actuation, without the slider making contact with the disk.
- a laser doppler velocimeter (LDV) provides a true displacement measurement of head vibration.
- the calibration of fly height performance can be achieved by comparing the LDV result with values predicted by the conventional Wallace spacing calculation.
- the head is controlled to fly at various fly heights and may be manipulated with thermal fly height control (TFC).
- TFC thermal fly height control
- the invention provides a direct method for measuring fly height clearance between the head and the disk.
- Optical fly height testers depend on the basic modeling of certain performance values. Bump calibration with speed sensitive airbearing or TFC protrusion depends on bump characterization and data extrapolation which can introduce considerable error. The Wallace spacing method also is model dependent.
- a head flying over a disk is a relatively linear system with certain resonance modes in the frequency range of about 50 kHz to 300 kHz.
- the modes can be excited and the slider will under go simple sinusoidal motion.
- the P2 mode where the trailing edge of the slider vibrates vertically, may be used to detect the vertical fly height clearance between the head and disk.
- the amplitude of the vibration may be measured with an LDV.
- the calibration of the LDV measurement is determined by an internal clock and the speed of light and is very accurate.
- the slider vibrates freely until it contacts the disk. The contact may be detected in several ways, such as with an arm electronics sensor mounted on the slider, such as applications for glide heads.
- the amplitude of the vibration, mean to peak, at the head and disk contact is the fly height clearance.
- FIG. 1 is a schematic drawing of one embodiment of a system constructed in accordance with the invention
- FIG. 2 is a plot of one embodiment of slider vibration measured by a laser doppler velocimeter in accordance with the invention
- FIG. 3 is a plot of one embodiment of fly height measurements over time in accordance with the invention.
- FIG. 4 is a schematic drawing of one embodiment of disk drive constructed in accordance with the invention.
- Fly height may be defined as the absolute distance from a reference point on the slider, usually the lowest point on the slider, to the mean of the disk topography.
- Head-disk clearance may be defined as the allowable fly height reduction before the slider makes contact with the disk.
- the fly height clearance may be measured with a pico glide head 11 relative to a disk 13 .
- the vibration 15 of the head 11 at, for example, the P2 resonance mode is excited by an electrostatic force.
- electrostatic force may be provided by a signal generator 17 and current limiting resistor 19 .
- Other means of excitation can also be used, for example, using PZT crystals mounted on the suspension 21 .
- the plot 31 of FIG. 2 shows a snapshot of a slider's P2 vibration measured by, e.g., a laser doppler velocimeter (LDV) 23 ( FIG. 1 ).
- LDV laser doppler velocimeter
- FIG. 3 Some fly height clearance measurements 41 are depicted in FIG. 3 .
- the fly height is conventionally calibrated with a “bump” technique and touch down height (TDH) standard disks.
- the bump height and TDH are 7 nm and 2 nm, respectively, which are based on a conventional calibration method.
- the invention comprises a method of calibrating a fly height of a slider.
- the method includes the steps of flying a slider above a disk, the slider having a head for reading data from the disk; vibrating the slider such that the slider oscillates relative to the disk without contacting the disk; measuring a true vibration of the fly height of the slider relative to the disk; measuring a magnetic variation of the slider due to the vibration and predicting a fly height vibration with a Wallace Spacing Loss (WSL) equation; comparing the predicted fly height vibration to the true vibration, and repeating these steps at a different fly height; and then calibrating the fly height of the slider based on the comparing steps (e) to achieve a calibration with a wide fly height range.
- WSL Wallace Spacing Loss
- the method also may comprise controlling the fly height with thermal fly height controls, and plotting the fly heights versus power supplied to the thermal fly height controls.
- the fly heights may be varied at increments on the order of 0.1 nm.
- the prediction of the fly height vibration may be based on a readback signal from the head, and the readback signal is calibrated in the final step.
- the readback signal may be derived from the biased magnetic sensor is known to be related to separation between the magnetic sensor and the magnetic recording layer by the WSL equation.
- the relative value (d ⁇ d′) in the WSL equation becomes an absolute value for the fly height.
- Ad/Ad ′ exp[ ⁇ 2 ⁇ ( d ⁇ d ′)/ ⁇ ]
- the method also may comprise measuring the true vibration with a laser doppler velocimeter (LDV), and vibrating the slider with arm electronics or electrostatic actuation.
- the method may further comprise vibrating the slider at a P2 resonance mode in a frequency range of about 50 kHz to 300 kHz.
- the fly height may be calibrated against the readback signal over the frequency range.
- the invention also comprises a method of measuring a clearance between a disk and a slider, including flying a slider above a magnetic media disk, the slider having a head for reading data from the disk; maintaining a fly height of the slider relative to the disk; vibrating the slider such that the slider oscillates relative to the disk so that the slider contacts the disk; detecting contact between the slider and the disk; and detecting a mean-to-peak amplitude of the vibration at contact to determine the disk-slider clearance.
- the detecting step may comprise making a direct measurement with an LDV, and/or the vibrating step may comprise detecting contact with an arm electronics sensor mounted on the slider.
- the method also may comprise converting a detected magnetic signal, using a Wallace Spacing Loss equation, to a nanometer distance with a fly height correction.
- the fly height correction may comprise the following steps: flying a slider above a disk, the slider having a head for reading data from the disk; vibrating the slider such that the slider oscillates relative to the disk without contacting the disk; measuring a true vibration of a fly height of the slider relative to the disk; measuring a magnetic variation of the slider due to the vibration and predicting a fly height vibration with a Wallace Spacing Equation; comparing the predicted fly height vibration of the previous step to the true vibration, and repeating these steps at a different fly height; and then calibrating the fly height of the slider based on the comparing steps to achieve a calibration with a wide fly height range.
- Still other embodiments may comprise controlling the fly height with thermal fly height controls, and plotting the fly heights versus power supplied to the thermal fly height controls.
- the fly heights are varied at increments on the order of 0.1 nm, and predicting the fly height vibration may be based on a readback signal from the head, with the readback signal being calibrated in the final step.
- the true vibration may be measured with an LDV, and the slider may be vibrated with arm electronics or electrostatic actuation.
- the slider may be vibrated at the P2 resonance mode in a frequency range of about 50 kHz to 300 kHz, and the fly height calibrated against a readback signal over the frequency range.
- FIG. 4 a schematic drawing of one embodiment of an information storage system comprising a magnetic hard disk file or drive 111 for a computer system is shown.
- Drive 111 has an outer housing or base 113 containing at least one magnetic disk 115 .
- Disk 115 is rotated by a spindle motor assembly having a central drive hub 117 .
- An actuator 121 comprises one or more parallel actuator arms 125 in the form of a comb that is pivotally mounted to base 113 about a pivot assembly 123 .
- a controller 119 is also mounted to base 113 for selectively moving the comb of arms 125 relative to disk 115 .
- each arm 125 has extending from it at least one cantilevered load beam and suspension 127 .
- a magnetic read/write transducer or head is mounted on a slider 129 and secured to a flexure that is flexibly mounted to each suspension 127 .
- the read/write heads magnetically read data from and/or magnetically write data to disk 115 .
- the level of integration called the head gimbal assembly is the head and the slider 129 , which are mounted on suspension 127 .
- the slider 129 is usually bonded to the end of suspension 127 .
- the head is typically formed from ceramic or intermetallic materials and is pre-loaded against the surface of disk 115 by suspension 127 .
- Suspensions 127 have a spring-like quality which biases or urges the air bearing surface of the slider 129 against the disk 115 to enable the creation of the air bearing film between the slider 129 and disk surface.
- a voice coil 133 housed within a voice coil motor magnet assembly 134 is also mounted to arms 125 opposite the head gimbal assemblies. Movement of the actuator 121 (indicated by arrow 135 ) by controller 119 moves the head gimbal assemblies radially across tracks on the disk 115 until the heads settle on their respective target tracks.
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A method models and calibrates the fly height of a slider above the disk for disk drives. The calibration scheme uses the Wallace spacing loss equation and laser doppler velocimetry to predict fly height and detect the actual fly height of the slider. The slider is vibrated at selected resonances, such as by capacitive coupling to the disk, and the fly height is gradually reduced. In one version, contact between the slider and disk may be detected using an arm electronics sensor. The amplitude of mean-to-peak, vibration detection is used as an indication of the actual fly height and to calibrate the modeled fly height.
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- This patent application is a continuation of and claims priority to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/184,300, filed on Aug. 1, 2008, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
- 1. Technical Field
- The present invention relates in general to measuring parameters of sliders and disks used in magnetic storage devices and, in particular, to a system, method and apparatus for measuring head-disk clearance by slider vibration and calibrating the fly height performance of sliders in disk drives.
- 2. Description of the Related Art
- In a magnetic disk recording system, a slider containing magnetic transducers for reading and writing magnetic transitions is urged toward the rotating disk by a suspension. As the disk rotates an air bearing develops under the slider and causes it to fly above the disk. The distance between the slider and the disk surface is the clearance. The disk typically includes a thin film overcoat and a set of thin films which include one or more ferromagnetic layers in which information is recorded. A disk drive can contain multiple disks and multiple sliders.
- Lower slider fly heights are required for disk drives with higher areal densities. As a result, it is becoming increasingly difficult to measure the actual fly height of sliders. One technique uses white light interferometry and works adequately for large fly heights, but it loses accuracy for smaller fly heights. In addition, it is very sensitive to the optical constants of the slider overcoat. Another technique uses small solid bumps of known height on the disk and measures the acoustic emissions as the slider passes over or hits the bumps. Since it has proved impractical to make very small bumps, this particular technique loses accuracy for very small fly heights. Although this and other methods are workable for some applications, an improvement in measuring head-disk clearance and calibrating the fly height performance of disk drives would be desirable for high performance drive applications.
- Embodiments of a system, method, and apparatus for measuring head-disk clearance and calibrating the fly height performance of disk drives are disclosed. The Wallace Spacing Loss formula or equation provides a conventional technique for calculating or predicting the fly height of a slider above a disk. However, it is calculated against a known scale and is in need of calibration.
- In one embodiment, the head flies above the disk and is excited to vibrate (e.g., in a P2 resonance mode) so that the trailing edge or lowest point of the slider relative to the disk varies in distance with respect to the disk. The vibration may be accomplished by various methods, such as arm electronics or electrostatic actuation, without the slider making contact with the disk. A laser doppler velocimeter (LDV) provides a true displacement measurement of head vibration. The calibration of fly height performance can be achieved by comparing the LDV result with values predicted by the conventional Wallace spacing calculation. To achieve a calibration with a wide fly height range, the head is controlled to fly at various fly heights and may be manipulated with thermal fly height control (TFC).
- In another embodiment, the invention provides a direct method for measuring fly height clearance between the head and the disk. Optical fly height testers depend on the basic modeling of certain performance values. Bump calibration with speed sensitive airbearing or TFC protrusion depends on bump characterization and data extrapolation which can introduce considerable error. The Wallace spacing method also is model dependent.
- A head flying over a disk is a relatively linear system with certain resonance modes in the frequency range of about 50 kHz to 300 kHz. The modes can be excited and the slider will under go simple sinusoidal motion. In particular, the P2 mode, where the trailing edge of the slider vibrates vertically, may be used to detect the vertical fly height clearance between the head and disk. Again, the amplitude of the vibration may be measured with an LDV. The calibration of the LDV measurement is determined by an internal clock and the speed of light and is very accurate. The slider vibrates freely until it contacts the disk. The contact may be detected in several ways, such as with an arm electronics sensor mounted on the slider, such as applications for glide heads. The amplitude of the vibration, mean to peak, at the head and disk contact is the fly height clearance.
- The foregoing and other objects and advantages of the present invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art, in view of the following detailed description of the present invention, taken in conjunction with the appended claims and the accompanying drawings.
- So that the manner in which the features and advantages of the present invention are attained and can be understood in more detail, a more particular description of the invention briefly summarized above may be had by reference to the embodiments thereof that are illustrated in the appended drawings. However, the drawings illustrate only some embodiments of the invention and therefore are not to be considered limiting of its scope as the invention may admit to other equally effective embodiments.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic drawing of one embodiment of a system constructed in accordance with the invention; -
FIG. 2 is a plot of one embodiment of slider vibration measured by a laser doppler velocimeter in accordance with the invention; -
FIG. 3 is a plot of one embodiment of fly height measurements over time in accordance with the invention; and -
FIG. 4 is a schematic drawing of one embodiment of disk drive constructed in accordance with the invention. - Referring to
FIGS. 1-4 , embodiments of a system, method and apparatus for measuring head-disk clearance by slider vibration and calibrating the fly height performance of sliders in disk drives. Fly height may be defined as the absolute distance from a reference point on the slider, usually the lowest point on the slider, to the mean of the disk topography. Head-disk clearance may be defined as the allowable fly height reduction before the slider makes contact with the disk. - In one embodiment (e.g.,
FIG. 1 ), the fly height clearance may be measured with apico glide head 11 relative to adisk 13. Thevibration 15 of thehead 11 at, for example, the P2 resonance mode is excited by an electrostatic force. Such electrostatic force may be provided by asignal generator 17 and current limitingresistor 19. Other means of excitation can also be used, for example, using PZT crystals mounted on thesuspension 21. - The
plot 31 ofFIG. 2 shows a snapshot of a slider's P2 vibration measured by, e.g., a laser doppler velocimeter (LDV) 23 (FIG. 1 ). In addition, some flyheight clearance measurements 41 are depicted inFIG. 3 . This data demonstrates the viability and repeatability of the invention. The fly height is conventionally calibrated with a “bump” technique and touch down height (TDH) standard disks. For example, the bump height and TDH are 7 nm and 2 nm, respectively, which are based on a conventional calibration method. - In one embodiment, the invention comprises a method of calibrating a fly height of a slider. The method includes the steps of flying a slider above a disk, the slider having a head for reading data from the disk; vibrating the slider such that the slider oscillates relative to the disk without contacting the disk; measuring a true vibration of the fly height of the slider relative to the disk; measuring a magnetic variation of the slider due to the vibration and predicting a fly height vibration with a Wallace Spacing Loss (WSL) equation; comparing the predicted fly height vibration to the true vibration, and repeating these steps at a different fly height; and then calibrating the fly height of the slider based on the comparing steps (e) to achieve a calibration with a wide fly height range.
- The method also may comprise controlling the fly height with thermal fly height controls, and plotting the fly heights versus power supplied to the thermal fly height controls. In some embodiments, the fly heights may be varied at increments on the order of 0.1 nm. The prediction of the fly height vibration may be based on a readback signal from the head, and the readback signal is calibrated in the final step.
- The readback signal may be derived from the biased magnetic sensor is known to be related to separation between the magnetic sensor and the magnetic recording layer by the WSL equation. The relative value (d−d′) in the WSL equation becomes an absolute value for the fly height.
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Ad/Ad′=exp[−2π(d−d′)/λ] -
- wherein:
Ad=magnetic signal amplitude at magnetic spacing distance d;
Ad′=magnetic signal amplitude at magnetic spacing distance d; and
λ=write frequency
- wherein:
- The method also may comprise measuring the true vibration with a laser doppler velocimeter (LDV), and vibrating the slider with arm electronics or electrostatic actuation. The method may further comprise vibrating the slider at a P2 resonance mode in a frequency range of about 50 kHz to 300 kHz. The fly height may be calibrated against the readback signal over the frequency range.
- In other embodiments, the invention also comprises a method of measuring a clearance between a disk and a slider, including flying a slider above a magnetic media disk, the slider having a head for reading data from the disk; maintaining a fly height of the slider relative to the disk; vibrating the slider such that the slider oscillates relative to the disk so that the slider contacts the disk; detecting contact between the slider and the disk; and detecting a mean-to-peak amplitude of the vibration at contact to determine the disk-slider clearance.
- In other embodiments, the detecting step may comprise making a direct measurement with an LDV, and/or the vibrating step may comprise detecting contact with an arm electronics sensor mounted on the slider. The method also may comprise converting a detected magnetic signal, using a Wallace Spacing Loss equation, to a nanometer distance with a fly height correction. The fly height correction may comprise the following steps: flying a slider above a disk, the slider having a head for reading data from the disk; vibrating the slider such that the slider oscillates relative to the disk without contacting the disk; measuring a true vibration of a fly height of the slider relative to the disk; measuring a magnetic variation of the slider due to the vibration and predicting a fly height vibration with a Wallace Spacing Equation; comparing the predicted fly height vibration of the previous step to the true vibration, and repeating these steps at a different fly height; and then calibrating the fly height of the slider based on the comparing steps to achieve a calibration with a wide fly height range.
- Still other embodiments may comprise controlling the fly height with thermal fly height controls, and plotting the fly heights versus power supplied to the thermal fly height controls. The fly heights are varied at increments on the order of 0.1 nm, and predicting the fly height vibration may be based on a readback signal from the head, with the readback signal being calibrated in the final step. The true vibration may be measured with an LDV, and the slider may be vibrated with arm electronics or electrostatic actuation. In addition, the slider may be vibrated at the P2 resonance mode in a frequency range of about 50 kHz to 300 kHz, and the fly height calibrated against a readback signal over the frequency range.
- Referring now to
FIG. 4 , a schematic drawing of one embodiment of an information storage system comprising a magnetic hard disk file or drive 111 for a computer system is shown. Drive 111 has an outer housing orbase 113 containing at least onemagnetic disk 115.Disk 115 is rotated by a spindle motor assembly having acentral drive hub 117. Anactuator 121 comprises one or moreparallel actuator arms 125 in the form of a comb that is pivotally mounted tobase 113 about apivot assembly 123. Acontroller 119 is also mounted tobase 113 for selectively moving the comb ofarms 125 relative todisk 115. - In the embodiment shown, each
arm 125 has extending from it at least one cantilevered load beam andsuspension 127. A magnetic read/write transducer or head is mounted on aslider 129 and secured to a flexure that is flexibly mounted to eachsuspension 127. The read/write heads magnetically read data from and/or magnetically write data todisk 115. The level of integration called the head gimbal assembly is the head and theslider 129, which are mounted onsuspension 127. Theslider 129 is usually bonded to the end ofsuspension 127. The head is typically formed from ceramic or intermetallic materials and is pre-loaded against the surface ofdisk 115 bysuspension 127. -
Suspensions 127 have a spring-like quality which biases or urges the air bearing surface of theslider 129 against thedisk 115 to enable the creation of the air bearing film between theslider 129 and disk surface. Avoice coil 133 housed within a voice coilmotor magnet assembly 134 is also mounted toarms 125 opposite the head gimbal assemblies. Movement of the actuator 121 (indicated by arrow 135) bycontroller 119 moves the head gimbal assemblies radially across tracks on thedisk 115 until the heads settle on their respective target tracks. - While the invention has been shown or described in only some of its forms, it should be apparent to those skilled in the art that it is not so limited, but is susceptible to various changes without departing from the scope of the invention.
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1. A method of measuring a clearance between a disk and a slider, comprising:
(a) flying a slider above a magnetic media disk, the slider having a head for reading data from the disk;
(b) maintaining a fly height of the slider relative to the disk;
(c) vibrating the slider such that the slider oscillates relative to the disk and vibrates freely until the slider contacts the disk;
(d) detecting contact between the slider and the disk; and
(e) detecting a mean-to-peak amplitude of the vibration at contact to determine the disk-slider clearance.
2. A method according to claim 1 , wherein step (e) comprises a direct measurement with a laser doppler velocimeter (LDV).
3. A method according to claim 1 , wherein step (d) comprises detecting contact with an arm electronics sensor mounted on the slider.
4. A method according to claim 1 , wherein step (e) comprises converting a detected magnetic signal, using a Wallace Spacing Loss equation, to a nanometer distance with a fly height correction.
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