Magnetic recording at 1.5Pbm-2 using an integrated plasmonic antenna

Nature Photonics

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 484-488

  Stipe, Barry C ^a   Strand, Timothy C ^a   Poon, Chie C ^a   Balamane, Hamid ^a   Boone, Thomas D ^a   Katine, Jordan A ^a   Li, Jui Lung ^a   Rawat, Vijay ^a   Nemoto, Hiroaki ^b   Hirotsune, Akemi ^b   Hellwig, Olav ^a   Ruiz, Ricardo ^a   Dobisz, Elizabeth ^a   Kercher, Dan S ^a   Robertson, Neil ^a   Albrecht, Thomas R ^a   Terris, Bruce D ^a  

^a SAN JOSE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION LIMITED; MAGNETIC RECORDING HEADS; NANOSECOND PULSE; OPTICAL EFFICIENCY; PATTERNED MEDIAS; PLASMONIC DEVICES; RECORDING MEDIUM; THERMALLY ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDINGS;

ANTENNAS; PLASMONS;

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 77954427296     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2010.90     Document Type: Article

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