Abstract: A storage device includes a recording medium, a probe, a substrate, and a processing unit. The recording medium stores a signal. The probe reads or writes the signal to/from the recording medium. The substrate is provided with the probe via a conductive anchor interposed therebetween and a first connection terminal connected to the probe. The processing unit is provided on the substrate and has a second connection terminal. The second connection terminal is connected to the first connection terminal.

Abstract: A seek-scan probe (SSP) memory involves multiple-wafer bonding needing precision small gaps in between. Solder reflow bonding is typically used to join the wafers due to its reliability and ability to hermetically seal. However, solder reflow bonding may not provide a consistently controllable gap due to flowing solder during the bonding process. Thus, a bond stop technique and process is used to provide accurate cantilever to media gap control.

Abstract: A method and system of replicating data stored on a storage device where an update is stored in a snapshot. The update includes a copy of at least one portion of the data stored on the storage device. Metadata relating to the update is also stored. The replica is periodically updated by copying the contents of the snapshot into the replica in accordance with the stored metadata. After the replica is updated, the snapshot can be deleted.

Abstract: A ferroelectric recording medium includes a ferroelectric recording layer on an electrode layer, which includes an insulative layer on the ferroelectric recording layer, and includes non-continuous electrically conductive coating portions on the insulative layer.

Abstract: A seek-scan-probe memory device, utilizing a media electrode to allow active cantilevers to contact the storage media, and a pull electrode to pull up cantilevers away from the storage media when in an inactive mode. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: A device, method, and computer program product are provided for migrating pieces of data from a first recording location to a second recording location based on access frequency. The device comprises an obtaining unit for obtaining, for each of the pieces of data, first information indicating the number of times any data has been read from the first recording location after the piece of data is written to the first recording location and second information indicating the number of times the piece of data has been read from the first recording location. Moreover, the device comprises a tracking unit for tracking access frequency with respect to each of the pieces of data using the first information and the second information. Furthermore, the device comprises a determining unit for determining recording positions of each of the pieces of data in the second recording location based on the tracked access frequency.

Abstract: The semiconductor integrated circuit incorporates a PLL circuit including a phase-frequency comparator 1, first and second charge pumps 2 and 3, a loop filter 4, a voltage-control oscillator 5 and a divider 6. The operation mode of the PLL circuit includes a standby state where locking is stopped, a lock response operation where locking is started and a steady lock operation where the locking started by the lock response operation is continued. In the steady lock operation, setting is made so that the second charge pump 3 is smaller in charge/discharge current than the first charge pump 2. The first and second charge pumps 2 and 3 charge and discharge the loop filter 4 in response to outputs of the phase-frequency comparator 1 in reverse to each other in phase. In the lock response operation where locking is started, the second charge pump 3 is stopped from charging and discharging in reverse in phase.

Abstract: A drive (1) for driving an object to be driven (14) in a predetermined direction comprises a plurality of guide means (18) which are fixed to a substrate (11) and extend in a predetermined direction, respectively, output means (2) for outputting the driving force in the direction along the direction in which the plurality of guide means extend from an output terminal section (20) to at least one of the plurality of guide means and advancing with the object to be driven in parallel by being coupled to the object to be driven, and a control means (100) for controlling each of a plurality of output means so that the plurality of output means output the drive force at a desired time.

Abstract: A microelectromechanical device that includes a fixed supporting body, at least one semiconductor body, which is movable with respect to the fixed supporting body, and at least one micromotor for moving the semiconductor body with respect to the fixed supporting body, the micromotor having at least one permanent magnet and a coil, which are coupled together and are movable with respect to one another. A ferromagnetic guide is coupled to the magnet and is shaped so as to concentrate lines of magnetic field generated by the magnet towards the coil.

Abstract: The presently disclosed technology teaches an improved voltage pattern for conductive tips utilized as moveable top electrodes for writing data bits into ferroelectric media. A conductive tip is dragged in contact or near contact with a ferroelectric surface forming a moveable top electrode on a ferroelectric media disk. A metallic film is deposited onto a bottom-side of the ferroelectric media forming a conductive bottom electrode. Applying electrical voltage pulses between the conductive tip and the bottom electrode induces polarization switching of the ferroelectric media under the head. The improved voltage pattern incorporates positive and negative overshoot voltages to induce a polarization switch in the ferroelectric media and positive and negative drag voltages to expand a polarized region on the ferroelectric media. Potential benefits of the improved voltage pattern include reduced cross-track blooming and reduced along-track blooming resulting in a more uniform track width and bit series length.

Abstract: A method for automated microscopic analysis wherein the test protocol is obtained from interrogatable data affixed to each microscope slide. The method further comprises the algorithms that implement the test protocol.

Abstract: A package to receive a memory device including an electromagnetic motor comprises a body having a top surface and a bottom surface. Conductive leads extend through the body so that the conductive leads are at least partially exposed within the package. A base is connectable with the bottom surface of the body, and a lid is connectable with the top surface of the body. The base and the lid have substantially matched thermal expansion characteristics and provide magnetic flux return paths for the electromagnetic motor.

Abstract: A seek-scan-probe memory device, utilizing a media electrode to allow active cantilevers to contact the storage media, and a pull electrode to pull up cantilevers away from the storage media when in an inactive mode. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: The data to be recorded onto a recording medium is directly spread and then recorded onto the recording medium through a needle-shaped member, such as a probe. Upon reproducing the data, the data read from the recording medium is de-spread and reproduced.

Abstract: For a probe based data storage (PDS) device a ferroelectric film stack may be used as a media to store data bits by polarizing areas of the film as either an up domain or a down domain to represent bits. However a built-in-bias field (BBF) may create domain retention problems. By growing the ferroelectric films with stress and composition gradients this may generate polarization gradients which reduce the bias field. Thus, the retention (or imprint) may be improved with minimized BBF.

Abstract: A hierarchical storage system has a disc drive, a library apparatus, and a control apparatus. The library apparatus houses a magazine that houses a cartridge. The cartridge has a first tag and stores a storage medium configured to store the data. The magazine has a second tag. The library apparatus acquires through radio communications first information held by the first tag and configured to identify the cartridge and second information held by the second tag and configured to identify the magazine. The library apparatus transmits to the control apparatus the acquired first and second information. The control apparatus memorizes the first and second information, and manages a location of the data based on a data transfer status between the disc drive and the library apparatus and the first information and the second information stored in the first memory.

Abstract: A device for playing and recording real time broadcast radio includes a storage device, an audio output component, a control unit and an input interface. Data received from a radio receiver are recorded in the storage device. When a pause command is received from the input interface the real-time broadcast is paused, a marker is placed in the current position in memory and the received data continue to be recorded in the storage device.

Abstract: An information storage device comprises a media including a ferroelectric layer and a conductive layer and a cantilever adapted to be actuated toward the media. A tip extends from the cantilever and an electrode associated with the cantilever. When the cantilever is actuated, the tip applies a contact force to strain the media so that a charge is coupled from the ferroelectric layer to the tip. A signal is applied to the electrode to generate electrostatic force between the electrode and the conductive layer, causing the cantilever to vibrate based on a frequency of the signal. Vibration of the cantilever causes the contact force applied by the tip to the media to vary. Polarization of the ferroelectric layer can be determined based on one or both of a baseband signal generated by the charge accumulated at the tip and an upper-band signal generated by the variation in phase of the charge accumulated at the tip.

Abstract: A data storage medium stories data in the form of marks, said marks being written and/or read by an array of probes. The storage medium further includes a plurality of data fields, each field including an area of the storage medium which, in use, is scanned for reading and/or writing by an associated one of the array of probes. The data fields include operational data fields having operational data for operating said scanning stored herein, wherein the operational data fields are arranged in a plurality of clusters, each cluster including a plurality of adjacent operational data fields. The invention also provides a method of scanning the data storage medium with the probe array, in which a target data field is determined and an operational data cluster closest to the target data field is selected and the operational data stored therein is used to control parameters of the scanning.

Abstract: MEMS storage devices and associated systems and structures are generally described. In one example, a micro-electro-mechanical (MEMS) storage device includes a substrate, a lateral actuation structure coupled with the substrate, a micro-electro-mechanical (MEMS) probe coupled with the lateral actuation structure, the MEMS probe having a first end, a second end having a probe tip, and a longitudinal axis extending between the first end and the second end, wherein the second end can be actuated in a direction substantially normal to a surface of the substrate, and one or more stop beam structures coupled with the lateral actuation structure to restrict motion of the MEMS probe in the direction substantially normal to the surface of the substrate.

Abstract: Provided herein are embodiments for adjusting a built-in bias of a media including a conductive layer and a ferroelectric layer above the conductive layer. In certain embodiments, a voltage signal is applied between the conductive layer of the media and an electrode (provided over at least a portion of the ferroelectric layer) to thereby tune the built-in bias so that the built-in bias moves in a direction of (i.e., towards) the desired built-in bias. In other embodiments, the temperature of the at least a portion of the ferroelectric layer of the media is elevated to thereby tune the built-in bias so that the built-in bias moves in a direction of (i.e., towards) the desired built-in bias. The desired built-in bias can be a zero built-in bias, or a non-zero built-in bias.

Abstract: A system and method of reducing spin pumping induced damping of a free layer of a memory device is disclosed. The memory device includes an anti-ferromagnetic material (AFM) pinning layer in contact with a bit line access electrode. The memory device also includes a pinned layer in contact with the AFM pinning layer, a tunnel barrier layer in contact with the pinned layer, and a free layer in contact with the tunnel barrier layer. The memory device includes a spin torque enhancing layer in contact with the free layer and in contact with an access transistor electrode. The spin torque enhancing layer is configured to substantially reduce spin pumping induced damping of the free layer.

Abstract: A method of writing to ferroelectric storage medium includes the steps of applying a first write voltage to a ferroelectric layer for writing a first bit in a first polarization direction and applying a second write voltage to the ferroelectric layer for writing a second bit in a second polarization direction opposing the first polarization direction. The first write voltage having a first magnitude, and the second write voltage having a second magnitude being greater than the first magnitude. The ferroelectric layer having a ferroelectric imprint polarization direction, and the first polarization direction being substantially the same as the ferroelectric imprint polarization direction. The ferroelectric medium contains first bits with a first surface area that is substantially equal to second bits surface area. A probe storage apparatus can use this method and ferroelectric medium.

Abstract: A recording/reproducing apparatus (100) is provided with: a first substrate (41) on which a recording medium (43) is mounted; and a second substrate (21) to which a recording/reproducing head (23), which performs information recording and information reproduction on the recording/reproducing medium is fixed, wherein the second substrate is relatively displaced in a predetermined direction substantially parallel to the first substrate with respect to the first substrate, a particulate (30) is placed in a gap between the first substrate and the second substrate, the particulate can be displaced with displacement of the second substrate, the particulate has a substantially circular cross section in a direction that the second substrate is displaced when the second substrate is displaced.

Abstract: An information storage device comprises a media including a ferroelectric layer formed over a conductive layer, a tip substrate including a bottom actuation electrode, the tip substrate arranged opposite the media, and a cantilever connected with the tip substrate at a fulcrum and actuatable toward the media. The cantilever includes a first portion and a second portion, with the fulcrum located between the first portion and the second portion. The first portion is conductive and arranged over the bottom actuation electrode while a top actuation electrode is associated with the second portion so that the top actuation electrode is opposite the media. A first potential is applied to the bottom actuation electrode to generate electrostatic force between the bottom actuation electrode and the first portion and a second potential is applied to the top actuation electrode to generate electrostatic force between the top actuation electrode and the conductive layer.

Abstract: An information recording/reproducing device is provided with a recording medium with a recording surface, a plurality of probes that carry out at least either record processing or reproduction processing by scanning a plurality of information tracks on the recording surface, a position detecting means that detects a position of at least one information track by using the probe for every plural divided regions into which the recording medium is divided in a direction intersecting the plural information tracks and which contain at least one information track, and a track control means that controls tracking of the probe used for at least either record processing or reproduction processing for every plural divided regions. Thus, the device structure can be simplified.

Abstract: An information recording/reproducing device according to an aspect of the present invention includes a recording layer, and a recording circuit which records data to the recording layer by generating a phase change in the recording layer. The recording layer includes a first chemical compound having one of a Wolframite structure and a Scheelite structure.

Abstract: A media for storing information comprises a substrate, a conductive layer formed over the substrate, and a ferroelectric layer epitaxially formed on the conductive layer. The ferroelectric layer includes an a-lattice constant that is substantially matched to an a-lattice constant of the conductive layer and an average c-lattice constant that is longer than an average c-lattice constant of a bulk-grown ferroelectric layer.

Abstract: Provided are an electric field read/write apparatus and method, which reproduce information written in a recording medium by using an electric field read/write head including a channel. In the electric field read/write apparatus and method, an electric field generated from the recording medium is modulated by using a modulation signal, a variation in the modulated electric field is detected, and a voltage signal determined according to the detected variation is demodulated and information written in the recording medium is determined according to a result of the demodulation.

Abstract: A method and structure for a ferroelectric storage medium, includes a metallic underlayer and a ferroelectric data layer over the metallic underlayer. A layer over the ferroelectric data layer has a charge migration rate faster than a charge migration rate of the ferroelectric data layer.

Abstract: An electric field head includes a body portion and a read head having a channel layer provided on an air bearing surface (ABS) of the body portion facing a recording medium and a source and a drain contacting both ends of the channel layer. The electric field head is manufactured by defining a head forming portion of a substrate, separating the head forming portion from the substrate, forming an ABS pattern on a side surface of the separated head forming portion, and forming a channel layer for a read head on a surface of the head forming portion where the ABS pattern is formed. An information storage device includes a ferroelectric recording medium and the electric field head.

Abstract: A marking device for marking optical discs in a non-destructive, tamper-proof manner for licensing and other purposes such as part of a digital content library service includes top and bottom structures coupled together by a hinge. The bottom structure is adapted with a mounting post in a recessed area defined by opposing curved ledges to hold an optical disc for marking. The top structure is adapted with a removable tool having an embossed symbol for impressing a mark on the held optical disc by applying pressure to the top structure when the device is in a closed position. The top structure is also adapted with perforations for alternatively or additionally injecting a permanent ink onto the optical disc so that a mark defined by the pattern of perforations may be placed on the optical disc.

Abstract: A signal processing circuit is provided with a signal input layer having a plurality of signal input sections which receive signal input; a plurality of signal processing layers whereupon a plurality of signal processing sections, which are arranged corresponding to each of the signal input sections and processes in parallel signals from the signal input sections, are dispersed; and connecting lines for associating and connecting the signal input sections with the signal processing sections, respectively. The size of a region occupied by each of the signal processing sections on the signal processing layers is larger than the arrangement intervals between the signal input sections on the signal input layers.

Abstract: An electrical-effect data recording medium is preferably formed by a successive stacking of a protective layer, a localized electrical conduction layer, a recording layer, a thin layer forming an electrode and a substrate. The localized electrical conduction layer is formed by a low electrical conductivity material, in which inclusions having a higher electrical conductivity than that of the material are dispersed. The inclusions can be oblong or spherical in shape and the material presents a non-linear electrical conduction.

Abstract: An information storage device comprises a ferroelectric media, write circuitry to provide a first signal and a second signal to the ferroelectric media, a tip platform and a cantilever operably associated with the tip platform. A tip extends from the cantilever toward the ferroelectric media and includes a first conductive material communicating the first signal from the write circuitry to the ferroelectric media and a second conductive material communicating the second signal from the write circuitry to the ferroelectric media. A insulating material arranged between the first conductive material and the second conductive material to electrically isolate the first conductive material from the second conductive material.

Abstract: A system for storing information comprises a package including a lid, a bowl mateable with the lid, and leads extending from an interior of the package to an exterior of the package. A magnet structure includes a first flux plate and a magnet and is fixedly connected with the lid by way of the first flux plate. A media stack includes a cap including cut-outs for receiving at least a portion of the magnet structure, a media frame connected to the cap, a tip die connected to the media frame, and a second flux plate connected with the tip die. A movable media platform is movably connected with the frame and arranged between the cap and the tip die. An electric trace is formed on the media platform so that the electric trace is arranged between the media platform and the cap. A media is fixedly associated with the movable media platform and accessible to the tip die. The media stack is seated within the bowl and wire-bonded to the leads.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a data record carrier of the type with ferroelectric memory layer, its method of manufacture and a micro-tip recording system incorporating same. The invention applies in particular to computer-based or multimedia applications requiring high memory capacities. A record carrier according to the invention comprises a substrate, a counter-electrode deposited on the substrate and intended to cooperate with an electrode of a data reading and/or writing device, and at least one ferroelectric memory layer which is able to store these data and which exhibits a first face in close contact with said counter-electrode. According to the invention, the counter-electrode is made of a substance comprising a carbonaceous material chosen from the group consisting of carbon in the form of graphite or amorphous diamond, the carbides of a metallic or non-metallic element with the exclusion of ionic carbides, and their mixtures.

Abstract: Alloy memory structures and methods are disclosed wherein a layer or volume of alloy material changes conductivity subsequent to introduction of a electron beam current-induced change in phase of the alloy, the conductivity change being detected using current detection means such as photon-emitting P-N junctions, and being associated with a change in data bit memory state.

Abstract: An electron beam recording apparatus is disclosed that records information onto the surface of a sample by using an electron beam. The electron beam recording apparatus includes an electron source that irradiates the electron beam, a magnetic detector that is configured to move onto and out of an irradiation axis and acquires magnetic information on the irradiation axis, a convergence position control part that calculates a convergence position correction amount for correcting a convergence position of the electron beam with respect to the surface of the sample based on the magnetic information, and a convergence position adjusting part that adjusts the convergence position of the electron beam with respect to the surface of the sample. The convergence position control part causes the convergence position adjusting part to adjust the convergence position of the electron beam with respect to the surface of the sample based on the convergence position correction amount.

Abstract: A method of operating a storage device includes storing data in the form of marks in a storage medium; scanning the storage medium with at least one probe operating in a scanning mode; and utilizing a control unit to provide a pulsed reading signal for data detecting in the scanning mode, and providing the probe with oversampling reading pulses in a clock mark scanning mode, wherein the control unit further comprises an input for a response signal to the oversampling reading pulses, and a determination unit for determining the clock dependent on the response signal; wherein the storage medium comprises marks for determining a clock of the pulsed reading signal.

Abstract: A transducer for a storage medium has a supporting element positioned over the storage medium with a first head configured to interact with the storage medium and a second head operatively connected to the first head to interact with the storage medium. The second head is carried by the supporting element in a position adjacent to the first head, and the first head and the second head are aligned in a scanning direction. The first head performs the reading of a data item stored in a portion of the storage medium, the reading entailing the deletion of the data item, and the second head performs the rewriting of the data item in the same portion of the storage medium.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of reducing the wear of a tip of a probe when the tip is in contact with a surface of a substrate and when the probe is mounted on a support structure. A method is provided where a load force is applied to the probe, thereby causing the tip to be maintained substantially in contact with the substrate surface and a modulation step where the e magnitude of the load force is modulated at a modulation frequency. The modulation frequency is selected to be greater than a fundamental vibration frequency of the support structure on which the probe is mounted.

Abstract: A storage device including a storage medium for storing data in the form of topographic or magnetic marks. At least one probe is mounted on a common frame, the common frame and the storage medium designed for moving relative to each other for creating or detecting said marks. Each probe includes a tip facing the storage medium, a read sensing element, a write element and a capacitive platform, that forms a first electrode and is designed for a voltage potential applied to it independent from a control signal for said read sensing element and for said voltage potential applied to said capacitive platform being independent from a control signal for said write heating element. It further comprises a second electrode arranged in a fixed position relative to the storage medium forming a first capacitor together wherein said first electrode and a medium between the first and second electrode.