Investigation of tribological and read-write performance of textured sliders
Slider surface texturing is a promising new way to improve the tribological performance of future hard disk drives with very low flying heights. In this study, proximity recording sliders with a design flying height of 6 nm at 20 m/s were textured using oxygenated plasma etching. In order to protect the read-write element, texturing of sliders was performed after positioning a mica mask over the read-write element. The tribological and read-write performance of the slider before texturing was compared with the tribological and magnetic performance of the same slider after texturing. It was found that no degradation of the read-write performance occurred and that the tribological performance of the slider was improved after texturing.
Optofluidic in-situ fabrication of magnetic actuators in microfluidic channels
We demonstrate in-situ fabrication of magnetic actuators using optofluidic maskless lithography (OFML). Photopatterning of magnetic structures in same place with actuation area reduces extra steps for transportation from the fabrication site to actuation site.
Annual review article: Is it time to rethink the gender agenda in entrepreneurship research?
This article develops a critique of contemporary approaches to analysing the impact of gender upon entrepreneurial propensity and activity. Since the 1990s, increasing attention has been afforded to the influence of gender on women’s entrepreneurial behaviour; such analyses have highlighted an embedded masculinity within the entrepreneurial discourse which privileges men as normative entrepreneurial actors. While invaluable in revealing a prevailing masculine bias within entrepreneurship, this critique is bounded by positioning women as a proxy for the gendered subject. This is a potentially limiting analysis that does not fully recognise gender as a human property with myriad articulations enacted throughout entrepreneurial activity. To progress debate, we engage more deeply with the notion of gender as a multiplicity, exploring the implications of such for future studies of entrepreneurial activity.