Interfacial thermal resistance (ITR) is the main obstacle for heat flows from one material to
another. Understanding ITR becomes essential for the removal of redundant heat from fast …

One detrimental by-product of heat-assisted magnetic recording writing is the creation of
head contamination. Here, we present the current understanding of the driving forces …

Curvature of recorded bit and skew are two factors limiting further improvement of the areal
density capacity of heat-assisted magnetic recording. Performance degradation due to …

The heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) head–disk interface is a unique operating
environment that combines nanoscale spacings, high shear rates, high-temperature …

This review presents a series of studies which have demonstrated that the diffusion
characteristics of rarefied mobile lubricant films used in modern magnetic disks can be …

Heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) promises to deliver higher storage areal density
than the current perpendicular magnetic recording products. Laser heating is implemented …

Lubricant accumulation was found on the media surface the instant when the laser is turned
OFF during heat-assisted magnetic recording write operations. By changing the write cycles …

One of the challenges in heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) is the creation of write-
induced head contamination at the near-field transducer. A possible mechanism for the …

In heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology for hard disk drives, the media will
be heated to about 500 C during the writing process in order to reduce its magnetic …

Heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) is proposed for the next generation of hard disk
drives. In HAMR systems, a laser beam heats the disk magnetic layer to the Curie …