Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording Performance and Integration Challenges

REA C., SCHOLZ W., Cao L., PENG C., BLABER M., HOHLFELD J., ...More

Conference on Optical Data Storage held as part of the SPIE Optics + Photonics, California, United States Of America, 18 - 19 August 2014, vol.9201 identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Conference Paper / Full Text
  • Volume: 9201
  • Doi Number: 10.1117/12.2064537
  • City: California
  • Country: United States Of America
  • Karadeniz Technical University Affiliated: No

Abstract

Recent recording areal density and integrated drive performance demonstrations using Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) suggest that it is a viable technology to succeed conventional magnetic recording. However challenges still remain for the near field transducer, in particular reliability and sufficient thermal confinement. We explore a new NFT design, Near field Transducer Gap (NTG), which offers the potential to mitigate some of the issues in track confinement and thermal profile compared to earlier published studies [4]. The design offers efficiency improvements, and the potential to reduce unwanted background light and heating that can lead to erasure in the writing track, and neighbors.