Plasmonic near-field transducer for heat-assisted magnetic recording

Nanophotonics

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 141-155

  Zhou, Nan ^a   Xu, Xianfan ^a   Hammack, Aaron T ^b   Stipe, Barry C ^b   Gao, Kaizhong ^c   Scholz, Werner ^c   Gage, Edward C ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HITACHI AMERICA LTD   (United States)

^c SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Field confinement; Field enhancement; Heat assisted magnetic recording; Low loss materials; Near field transducer; Optical antenna; Plasmonics

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; DIGITAL STORAGE; HARD DISK STORAGE; INFRARED DEVICES; PLASMONS; TRANSDUCERS;

FIELD ENHANCEMENT; HEAT ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING; LOW LOSS MATERIAL; NEAR-FIELD TRANSDUCERS; OPTICAL ANTENNAE; PLASMONICS;

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 84921377423     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21928614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2014-0001     Document Type: Review

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