| Study on lubricant depletion induced by laser heating in thermally assisted magnetic recording systems: effect of lubricant thickness and bonding ratio N Tagawa, H Andoh, H Tani Tribology letters 37, 411-418, 2010 | 75 | 2010 |
| Combined harpoonlike jagged microneedles imitating mosquito's proboscis and its insertion experiment with vibration H Izumi, T Yajima, S Aoyagi, N Tagawa, Y Arai, M Hirata, S Yorifuji IEEJ Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering 3 (4), 425-431, 2008 | 72 | 2008 |
| Lubricant depletion characteristics induced by rapid laser heating in thermally assisted magnetic recording N Tagawa, H Tani IEEE transactions on magnetics 47 (1), 105-110, 2010 | 71 | 2010 |
| Study of lubricant depletion induced by laser heating in thermally assisted magnetic recording systems—Effect of lubricant film materials N Tagawa, R Kakitani, H Tani, N Iketani, I Nakano IEEE transactions on magnetics 45 (2), 877-882, 2009 | 66 | 2009 |
| Design and fabrication of MEMS-based active slider using double-layered composite PZT thin film in hard disk drives N Tagawa, KI Kitamura, A Mori IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 39 (2), 926-931, 2003 | 59 | 2003 |
| Air film dynamics for micro-textured flying head slider bearings in magnetic hard disk drives N Tagawa, DB Bogy J. Trib. 124 (3), 568-574, 2002 | 38 | 2002 |
| Effects of molecularly thin liquid lubricant films on slider hysteresis behavior in hard disk drives N Tagawa, A Mori, K Senoue | 32 | 2007 |
| Lubricant pickup of ultra-thin PFPE lubricants with different backbone structures H Tani, K Iwasaki, Y Maruyama, I Ota, N Tagawa IEEE transactions on magnetics 47 (7), 1837-1841, 2011 | 29 | 2011 |
| Adhesion and friction properties of molecularly thin perfluoropolyether liquid films on solid surface H Tani, N Tagawa Langmuir 28 (8), 3814-3820, 2012 | 28 | 2012 |
| Conformation of ultrathin PFPE lubricants with different structure on magnetic disks—Direct observation and MD simulation H Tani, K Sakamoto, N Tagawa IEEE transactions on magnetics 45 (11), 5050-5054, 2009 | 27 | 2009 |
| State of the art for nanospacing flying head slider mechanisms in magnetic recording disk storage N Tagawa Wear 168 (1-2), 43-47, 1993 | 27 | 1993 |
| Adhesion and friction behavior of magnetic disks with ultrathin perfluoropolyether lubricant films having different end-groups measured using pin-on-disk test H Tani, T Mitsutome, N Tagawa IEEE transactions on magnetics 49 (6), 2638-2644, 2013 | 25 | 2013 |
| Experimental investigation of local temperature increase in disk surfaces of hard disk drives due to laser heating during thermally assisted magnetic recording N Tagawa, H Tani, K Ueda Tribology Letters 44, 81-87, 2011 | 25 | 2011 |
| Magnetic head slider loading mechanism for magnetic disk apparatus N Tagawa US Patent 4,843,502, 1989 | 25 | 1989 |
| Development of contact sliders with nanotextures by femtosecond laser processing N Tagawa, M Takada, A Mori, H Sawada, K Kawahara Tribology Letters 24, 143-149, 2006 | 24 | 2006 |
| Thin film gas lubrication characteristics of flying head slider bearings over patterned media in hard disk drives N Tagawa, A Mori Microsystem technologies 9 (5), 362-368, 2003 | 24 | 2003 |
| Bonding mechanism of perfluoropolyether lubricant film with functional endgroup on magnetic disks by ultraviolet irradiation H Tani, H Kitagawa, N Tagawa Tribology Letters 45, 117-122, 2012 | 23 | 2012 |
| Spreading of novel cyclotriphosphazine-terminated PFPE films on carbon surfaces N Tagawa, T Tateyama, A Mori, N Kobayashi, Y Fujii, M Ikegami J. Trib. 126 (4), 751-754, 2004 | 22 | 2004 |
| Development of novel PZT thin films for active sliders based on head load/unload on demand systems N Tagawa, H Seki, K Kitamura, A Mori Microsystem technologies 8, 133-138, 2002 | 22 | 2002 |
| Visualization of lubricant pickup phenomena by lubricant thickness mapping on slider surface H Tani, M Kubota, Y Tsujiguchi, N Tagawa Microsystem technologies 17, 1175-1178, 2011 | 21 | 2011 |
