Introduction An experimental study on the performance of a novel reactor system, termed the hybrid adsorbent-membrane reactor (HAMR) is described here. In the HAMR the reaction and membrane separation steps are coupled with adsorption. It was shown previously by our group that for esterification reactions this results in significantly improved performance. The focus in this presentation is on t...

Cross-plane thermal conductivity kth measurements of vertical stacks of FePt/C were used to estimate the in-plane thermal conductivity of Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) media that consist of columnar FePt grains segregated by thin C grain boundaries. FePt/C multilayers with varied repeat units and FePt layer thicknesses (chosen to represent HAMR media grain sizes) were measured using F...

Heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) is one of the most promising techniques to extend the recording density in hard disk drives beyond 1 Tb/in. Although the diameter of the spot on the disk that is heated by the laser beam is very small, on the order of nanometers, high local temperatures on the disk and the heat dissipated in the slider during the light delivery process can cause thermal d...

Heat assisted magnetic recording HAMR is a potential solution to extend the limits of conventional magnetic recording. In HAMR, the heating of the recording medium is achieved with a near-field optical transducer. Although the literature suggests novel transducers, there is little consideration of the optical and thermal aspects of the magnetic medium. In this letter we suggest a recording medi...

With the advent of the information age, the demand for larger storage capacity is ever increasing. However, the need to continue scaling conventional magnetic recording technologies to higher areal densities has led to physical and engineering limits which are difficult to overcome. New magnetic recording technologies are required. Bit-patterned media recording (BPMR) and heat-assisted magnetic...

Heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR), widely considered to be the next generation technology for high-density data storage devices, uses a tiny plasmonic antenna called a near-field transducer (NFT) to focus light down to a subdiffraction volume. This results in a temporary and local rise in temperature of the recording medium thereby reducing its coercivity, allowing the external magnetic f...

We perform first-principles calculations to predict the morphology of L10 ordered FePt nanoparticles grown on Mg(Ti)O substrates with relevance to application in heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) media. We show how incorporation of Ti into MgO substrates reduces the FePt adhesion energy from −1.29 (pure MgO) to −2.35 J/m2 (pure TiO). This effect is due to the formation of strong Fe-Ti bon...

Heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) is often considered the next major step in the storage industry: it is predicted to increase the storage capacity, the read/write speed and the data lifetime of future hard disk drives. However, despite more than a decade of development work, the reliability is still a prime concern. Featuring an inherently fragile surface-plasmon resonator as a highly lo...

We examine here the adjacent track interference (ATI) problem that arises when writing in an for heat-assisted magnetic recording combined with shingled (shingled HAMR). For ATI, bit error rate is a function of readout width. calculate and minimum normalized field various widths. The factors affecting ATI are grain temperature volume. compare sensitivity all combinations 2 4 Tbpsi, 6 9 grains/b...

The storage capacity of hard disk drives has increased tremendously over the last decade. However, the rate of increase has reached a bottle-neck as the technology approaches a theoretical limit known as the super-paramagnetic limit. Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) has emerged as one of the important technologies to overcome this limit. The process of heating while writing brings about ...