… It leverages precise laser heating to locally increase the temperature of a high-anisotropy …
challenges of HAMR - NFT self-heating issue. During operation, as the NFT focuses light to …

… the temperature rise in the NFT versus the temperature rise in … For a thermally stable NFT
and write-head, this ratio must be … of magnitude improvements to reliability by reducing the NFT …

… HAMR technology provides a technical solution to the fundamental constraints of the thermal
stability … from the deterioration of the NFT under high temperature. The main reasons are …

… TO ENSURE thermal stability of data over a 10-year lifetime in … a lowtemperature HAMR
write head is to make major NFT … NFT temperature could result in exponential improvements …

… of plasmonic NFTs; we focus here on the “lollipop” NFT, … (ABS recession, chemical and
thermal stability). Input couplers are … of the materials challenges associated with HAMR recording …

… study thermal effects of these structures on the HAMR head-… (FH) changes due to the heat
loss in the waveguide and NFT. … , in improved HAMR slider head designs, an additional heat …

… For example, current perpendicular products use an … of different materials that promote
better thermal stability, better … Since HAMR media temperatures exceed 400C and the NFT can …

… ), which promises to further increase the areal density to levels of 1–… thermal stability and
corrosion/diffusion resistance of the protective overcoat on the NFT and WP elements of HAMR …

… , we use HAMR disk media and a fully integrated HAMR head … that the temperature at the
headdisk interface is critical to NFT … the HAMR system is increased, the resulting increase in the …

… Thermal stability factors for different HAMR media assuming coherent…...138 rotation. A
larger stability … Fig 2.2 (a) describes the HAMR head that includes the laser and NFT while Fig. …