Integrated head design using a nanobeak antenna for thermally assisted magnetic recording

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 18946-18954

  Matsumoto, Takuya ^a   Akagi, Fumiko ^a   Mochizuki, Masafumi ^b   Miyamoto, Harukazu ^a   Stipe, Barry ^c  

^a HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

^b A Western Digital Company   (Japan)

^c WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; MAGNETIC RECORDING;

ABSORBED POWER; AREAL RECORDING DENSITY; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; INPUT POWER; LIGHT UTILIZATION; MAGNETIZATION PATTERNS; NEAR-FIELD; OPTICAL NEAR FIELD; OPTICAL TRANSDUCERS; RECORDING HEAD; RECORDING MEDIUM; SURFACE PLASMONS; THIN-FILM STRUCTURE;

ANTENNAS;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CHEMISTRY; DATA STORAGE DEVICE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HEAT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; MAGNETISM; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER STORAGE DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HOT TEMPERATURE; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MAGNETICS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84865598295     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.018946     Document Type: Article

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