Effect of Chemically Adsorbed Molecules on the Viscous Friction of Nanometer-Thick Liquid Lubricant Films Coated on a Diamond-Like Carbon Surface

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Shintaro Itoh
Yusuke Norizuki
Kenji Fukuzawa
Hedong Zhang
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[1] Nagoya University,Department of Micro
[2] Nagoya University,Nano Systems Engineering
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Tribology Letters | 2015年 / 60卷
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Nanotribology; Magnetic data storage; Lubricant thin film; Shear thinning; Confinement;
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Nanometer-thick liquid lubricant films are used for lubrication of miniaturized mechanical systems such as hard disk drives and microelectromechanical systems. In particular at the head–disk interface of hard disk drives, the lubricant thin film is coated on a diamond-like carbon surface, and the films are usually composed of both chemically and physically adsorbed lubricant molecules. The combination of these two types of molecules leads to high lubrication performance. However, the detailed mechanism is not fully understood. The aim of this study was to clarify the effect of chemically adsorbed lubricant molecules on the viscous friction of lubricant films. Two different samples were tested: One was the lubricant film composed of both chemically and physically adsorbed molecules, and the other was the lubricant film with only physically adsorbed molecules. We used a fiber wobbling method (FWM), which we developed in our previous study, to measure the viscous friction. The FWM uses a spherical-ended glass fiber as a shearing probe and enables friction forces in the order of 0.1 nN to be measured at precisely controlled nanometer-scale gap widths. For the fair comparison of friction forces between the samples with different compositions, the contact area between the probe tip and the lubricant film must be the same. To determine the contact area in the friction measurement, we improved the FWM system to enable simultaneous measurement of friction force and contact area. Experimental results showed the 1-nm-thick layer of chemically adsorbed molecules in the lubricant film effectively reduced the viscous friction.
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