- 专利标题: Method for manufacturing thermally-assisted magnetic recording head with waveguide blocker
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申请号: US15837205申请日: 2017-12-11
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公开(公告)号: US10152991B2公开(公告)日: 2018-12-11
- 发明人: Tsutomu Chou , Kouji Shimazawa , Tobias Maletzky , Weihao Xu , Shinji Hara , Yoshihiro Tsuchiya , Yiming Wang , Cherng-Chyi Han , Xuhui Jin
- 申请人: Headway Technologies, Inc.
- 申请人地址: US CA Milpitas
- 专利权人: Headway Technologies, Inc.
- 当前专利权人: Headway Technologies, Inc.
- 当前专利权人地址: US CA Milpitas
- 代理机构: Saile Ackerman LLC
- 代理商 Stephen B. Ackerman
- 主分类号: G11B11/00
- IPC分类号: G11B11/00 ; G11B5/48 ; G11B5/31 ; G11B5/60 ; G11B5/127 ; G11B5/00 ; G11B11/105
摘要:
A method for manufacturing a TAMR (thermal assisted magnetic recording) write head. The write head has a metal blocker formed against a distal end of a waveguide. The waveguide focuses optical radiation on an adjacent plasmon generator where it excites plasmon modes that heat the recording medium. Although the plasmon generator typically heats the recording medium using the plasmon near field to supply the required Joule heating, an unblocked waveguide would also send optical radiation to the medium and surrounding structures producing unwanted heating and device unreliability. The role of the blocker is to block the unwanted optical radiation and, thereby, to limit the heating to that supplied by the plasmon near field.