Nanoscale ridge aperture as near-field transducer for heat-assisted magnetic recording

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 31, 2011, Pages

  Zhou, Nan ^a   Kinzel, Edward C ^a   Xu, Xianfan ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; ASPECT RATIO; DIFFRACTION; EFFICIENCY; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MAGNETISM; NANOANTENNAS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; TRANSDUCERS;

DIFFRACTION LIMITS; HEAT ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING; HIGH TRANSMISSION; NEAR-FIELD TRANSDUCERS; OPTICAL ANTENNAE; OPTICAL SPOTS; RIDGE APERTURE; TRANSMISSION EFFICIENCY;

NANOMAGNETICS;

EID: 80155148460     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.000G42     Document Type: Article

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