Curvature of recorded bit and skew are two factors limiting further improvement of the areal
density capacity of heat-assisted magnetic recording. Performance degradation due to …

This review presents a series of studies which have demonstrated that the diffusion
characteristics of rarefied mobile lubricant films used in modern magnetic disks can be …

A main challenge in Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording technology is the build-up of
contaminants called smear on the near field transducer. In this paper, we investigate the role …

With the emergence of Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording and Microwave-Assisted
Magnetic Recording, understanding nanoscale heat transfer at the head-media interface is …

Understanding nanoscale heat transfer at the head–disk interface (HDI) is necessary for
thermal management of hard disk drives (HDDs), especially for heat-assisted magnetic …

Heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) is one of the critical technologies to overcome the
areal density limitations of hard disk drives. In order to reveal the behavior of viscoelastic …

Micro lubrication of a gas between two walls with arbitrary and independent temperature
distributions is studied on the basis of the Bhatnagar–Gross–Krook–Welander (BGKW) …

This report investigates the kinetics of lubricant molecules in the HAMR air bearing to
understand the initiation and growth of PFPE contamination on the head surface. The …

We investigate the heat transfer across a closing nanoscale gap between an operational
microelectronic device and a static substrate in ambient conditions. The device contains an …

Ever since the first hard disk drive (HDD) was invented in 1956, it has played a dominant
role in global data storage needs. Conventional HDDs, however, have reached the …