[n: Acquisition Or Selection Of Servo Format From A System Reference (after Track Seek G9b/5.194)] {g11b 5/596f2} Patents (Class G9B/5.223)
  • Active Media for Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR)
    Publication number: 20130201805
    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