Abstract: An apparatus includes a magnetic recording layer and a thermally active material adjacent to and/or embedded in the magnetic recording layer, wherein the thermally active material has a thermal property that changes when the temperature of the thermally active material changes, or undergoes a phase transition in a predetermined temperature range, to reduce a peak temperature or increase a thermal gradient of a heated portion of the magnetic recording layer.
Type:
Application
Filed:
February 2, 2012
Publication date:
August 8, 2013
Applicant:
SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
Inventors:
Michael Allen Seigler, William Challener