A thorough understanding of the decomposition of perfluoropolyether (PFPE) lubricants is
crucial to achieve heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR). In contrast to previous studies …

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 head-disk interface (HDI) in heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) hard disk drives
is a system where a laser beam is launched from a recording head and focused on a …

Heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) is on the magnetic recording industry's roadmap
of next generation recording technology. The high temperature writing condition creates …

Heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) has the potential to deliver higher storage areal
density beyond 1 Tb/in 2. A laser is integrated in the flying read/write head to heat up the …

Cloud data services started to expand rapidly about 10 years ago and it became
increasingly important for storage devices to provide higher capacities with lower power …

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 …

A main challenge in Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording technology is the build-up of
contaminants called smear on the near field transducer. In this paper, we investigate the role …

The high-temperature laser heating during heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR)
causes the media lubricant to deform and transfer to the head via evaporation/condensation …

Heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR), one of the promising hard disk drive
technologies to achieve areal density> 10 Tb/in 2, integrates a laser across its head-disk …