Fabrication and application of patterned magnetic media

In order to overcome the superparamagnetism in thin film magnetic recording media, a novel magnetic medium, called patterned medium, is studied here as a potential candidate for the future hard disk storage application. Within the patterned medium, one bit is stored in one magnetic unit, which has to be prepared "to-precision" along the track at uniform periodicity. A variety of magnetic recording media will be introduced and compared first. Detailed discussion will be focused on the potential techniques for patterned media fabrication. IP environment, market competition and business models will be given at the end.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2006

Author dc:creator

• Yao, Guhua

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Caroline Ross.

• Materials Science and Engineering.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37380

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/37380