Title
Hard disk drive (HDD) magnetoresistive head assembly
Technique
High Resolution Scanning Electron Microscopy (HRSEM)
Description
Hard disk drive (HDD) read/write device, also called magnetoresistive (MR) head assembly. This is the component that floats over the rotating magnetic disk inside a HDD and read/write the information recorded on it. The white rectangular piece is called the slider. The slider is what actually floats over the magnetic disk. The real semiconductor device that reads/writes the bits over the magnetic disk of the HDD are the small straight pink lines over the black surface of the slider.

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Technical specifications
Image acquired on the Thermo Fisher Quanta 650FEG ESEM, 20kV, 10nm Pt sputtering.
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