Heat-assisted magnetic recording by a near-field transducer with efficient optical energy transfer

Nature Photonics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 220-224

  Challener, W A ^a   Peng, Chubing ^a   Itagi, A V ^a   Karns, D ^a   Peng, Wei ^a   Peng, Yingguo ^a   Yang, Xiaomin ^a   Zhu, Xiaobin ^a   Gokemeijer, N J ^a   Hsia, Y T ^a   Ju, G ^a   Rottmayer, Robert E ^a   Seigler, Michael A ^a   Gage, E C ^a  

^a SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION LIMITS; HEAT ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING; MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM; NEAR FIELD MICROSCOPY; NEAR-FIELD TRANSDUCERS; OPTICAL ENERGY TRANSFER; OPTICAL THROUGHPUT; TRANSDUCER DESIGN;

DIFFRACTION; MAGNETIC RECORDING; ROTATING DISKS;

TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 63949086998     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2009.26     Document Type: Article

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