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公开(公告)号:US11164600B1
公开(公告)日:2021-11-02
申请号:US16551085
申请日:2019-08-26
Applicant: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
Inventor: Tong Zhao , Michael C. Kautzky , Lance Nevala
Abstract: Methods of forming a near field transducer (NFT), the methods including the steps of depositing plasmonic material on a substrate; laser annealing at least a portion of the deposited plasmonic material at a wavelength from 100 nm to 2.0 micrometers (μm) to induce liquid phase epitaxy (LPE) in the annealed deposited plasmonic material to form a epitaxially modified plasmonic material; and forming a NFT from at least a portion of the epitaxially modified plasmonic material are disclosed as well as other methods and devices such as those formed.
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公开(公告)号:US11162169B2
公开(公告)日:2021-11-02
申请号:US16726512
申请日:2019-12-24
Applicant: Seagate Technology LLC
Inventor: Tong Zhao , Michael C. Kautzky , Sarbeswar Sahoo , Justin Brons , Jie Gong , Yuhang Cheng
Abstract: Devices having an air bearing surface (ABS), the device including a near field transducer, the near field transducer having a peg and a disc, the peg having a region adjacent the ABS, the peg including a plasmonic material selected from gold (Au), silver (Ag), copper (Cu), ruthenium (Ru), rhodium (Rh), aluminum (Al), or combinations thereof; and at least one other secondary atom selected from germanium (Ge), tellurium (Te), aluminum (Al), antimony (Sb), tin (Sn), mercury (Hg), indium (In), zinc (Zn), iron (Fe), copper (Cu), manganese (Mn), silver (Ag), chromium (Cr), cobalt (Co), and combinations thereof, wherein a concentration of the secondary atom is higher at the region of the peg adjacent the ABS than a concentration of the secondary atom throughout the bulk of the peg. Methods of forming NFTs are also disclosed.
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公开(公告)号:US10580440B2
公开(公告)日:2020-03-03
申请号:US16260910
申请日:2019-01-29
Applicant: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
Inventor: Sarbeswar Sahoo , Martin Blaber , Hui Brickner , Tong Zhao , Yuhang Cheng , John Duda , Tae-Woo Lee
Abstract: Devices having an air bearing surface (ABS), the devices including a write pole; a near field transducer (NFT) that includes a peg and a disc, wherein the peg is at the ABS of the device; a heat sink positioned adjacent the disc of the NFT; a dielectric gap positioned adjacent the peg of the NFT at the ABS of the device; and a conformal diffusion barrier layer positioned between the write pole and the dielectric gap, the disc, and the heat sink, wherein the conformal diffusion barrier layer forms at least one angle that is not greater than 135°.
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公开(公告)号:US10519540B2
公开(公告)日:2019-12-31
申请号:US16260925
申请日:2019-01-29
Applicant: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
Inventor: Tong Zhao , Michael C. Kautzky , Sarbeswar Sahoo , Justin Brons , Jie Gong , Yuhang Cheng
IPC: G11B11/105 , C23C14/58 , G11B5/31 , G11B5/00 , G11B5/60
Abstract: Devices having an air bearing surface (ABS), the device including a near field transducer, the near field transducer having a peg and a disc, the peg having a region adjacent the ABS, the peg including a plasmonic material selected from gold (Au), silver (Ag), copper (Cu), ruthenium (Ru), rhodium (Rh), aluminum (Al), or combinations thereof; and at least one other secondary atom selected from germanium (Ge), tellurium (Te), aluminum (Al), antimony (Sb), tin (Sn), mercury (Hg), indium (In), zinc (Zn), iron (Fe), copper (Cu), manganese (Mn), silver (Ag), chromium (Cr), cobalt (Co), and combinations thereof, wherein a concentration of the secondary atom is higher at the region of the peg adjacent the ABS than a concentration of the secondary atom throughout the bulk of the peg. Methods of forming NFTs are also disclosed.
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公开(公告)号:US10510364B2
公开(公告)日:2019-12-17
申请号:US14935753
申请日:2015-11-09
Applicant: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
Inventor: Tong Zhao , Justin Brons , Steven C. Riemer , Michael C. Kautzky , Xiaoyue Huang , Sarbeswar Sahoo
IPC: G11B5/00 , G11B5/31 , C23C14/34 , C23C14/08 , C23C14/06 , C23C14/00 , C23C14/18 , C23C16/455 , C23C16/40
Abstract: Devices that include a near field transducer (NFT) including a crystalline plasmonic material having crystal grains and grain boundaries; and nanoparticles disposed in the crystal grains, on the grain boundaries, or some combination thereof, wherein the nanoparticles are oxides of, lanthanum (La), barium (Ba), strontium (Sr), erbium (Er), hafnium (Hf), germanium (Ge), or combinations thereof; nitrides of zirconium (Zr), niobium (Nb), or combinations thereof; or carbides of silicon (Si), aluminum (Al), boron (B), zirconium (Zr), tungsten (W), titanium (Ti), niobium (Nb), or combinations thereof.
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公开(公告)号:US10217482B2
公开(公告)日:2019-02-26
申请号:US15606040
申请日:2017-05-26
Applicant: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
Inventor: Vijay Karthik Sankar , Tong Zhao , Yongjun Zhao , Michael C. Kautzky , Hui Brickner , Sarbeswar Sahoo
IPC: G11B5/40 , G11B5/31 , G11B5/60 , G11B7/24059 , G11B5/84 , G11B5/48 , B05B1/36 , G11B5/85 , G11B5/00
Abstract: Devices that include a near field transducer (NFT), the NFT having a disc and a peg, and the peg having five surfaces thereof; and at least one adhesion layer positioned on at least one of the five surfaces of the peg, the adhesion layer including one or more of the following: yttrium (Y), tin (Sn), iron (Fe), copper (Cu), carbon (C), holmium (Ho), gallium (Ga), silver (Ag), ytterbium (Yb), chromium (Cr), tantalum (Ta), iridium (Ir), zirconium (Zr), yttrium (Y), scandium (Sc), cobalt (Co), silicon (Si), nickel (Ni), molybdenum (Mo), niobium (Nb), palladium (Pd), titanium (Ti), rhenium (Re), osmium (Os), platinum (Pt), aluminum (Al), ruthenium (Ru), rhodium (Rh), vanadium (V), germanium (Ge), tin (Sn), magnesium (Mg), iron (Fe), copper (Cu), tungsten (W), hafnium (Hf), carbon (C), boron (B), holmium (Ho), antimony (Sb), gallium (Ga), manganese (Mn), silver (Ag), indium (In), bismuth (Bi), zinc (Zn), ytterbium (Yb), and combinations thereof.
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公开(公告)号:US10190210B2
公开(公告)日:2019-01-29
申请号:US15817503
申请日:2017-11-20
Applicant: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
Inventor: Tong Zhao , Michael C. Kautzky , Sarbeswar Sahoo , Justin Brons , Jie Gong , Yuhang Cheng
IPC: G11B11/105 , C23C14/58 , G11B5/31 , G11B5/00 , G11B5/60
Abstract: Devices having an air bearing surface (ABS), the device including a near field transducer, the near field transducer having a peg and a disc, the peg having a region adjacent the ABS, the peg including a plasmonic material selected from gold (Au), silver (Ag), copper (Cu), ruthenium (Ru), rhodium (Rh), aluminum (Al), or combinations thereof; and at least one other secondary atom selected from germanium (Ge), tellurium (Te), aluminum (Al), antimony (Sb), tin (Sn), mercury (Hg), indium (In), zinc (Zn), iron (Fe), copper (Cu), manganese (Mn), silver (Ag), chromium (Cr), cobalt (Co), and combinations thereof, wherein a concentration of the secondary atom is higher at the region of the peg adjacent the ABS than a concentration of the secondary atom throughout the bulk of the peg. Methods of forming NFTs are also disclosed.
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公开(公告)号:US10102872B2
公开(公告)日:2018-10-16
申请号:US15073396
申请日:2016-03-17
Applicant: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
Inventor: Justin Brons , Tong Zhao , Yuhang Cheng , Dimitar V. Dimitrov
Abstract: Devices that include a near field transducer (NFT), the NFT having at least one external surface; and at least one multilayer adhesion layer positioned on at least a portion of the at least one external surface, the multilayer adhesion layer including a first layer and a second layer, with the second layer being in contact with the portion of the at least one external surface of the NFT, the first layer including: yttrium (Y), scandium (Sc), zirconium (Zr), hafnium (Hf), silicon (Si), boron (B), tantalum (Ta), barium (Ba), aluminum (Al), titanium (Ti), niobium (Nb), calcium (Ca), beryllium (Be), strontium (Sr), magnesium (Mg), lithium (Li), or combinations thereof; and the second layer including: lanthanum (La), boron (B), lutetium (Lu), aluminum (Al), deuterium (D), cerium (Ce), uranium (U), praseodymium (Pr), yttrium (Y), silicon (Si), iridium (Ir), carbon (C), thorium (Th), scandium (Sc), titanium (Ti), vanadium (V), phosphorus (P), barium (Ba), europium (Eu), or combinations thereof.
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公开(公告)号:US10062401B1
公开(公告)日:2018-08-28
申请号:US15681808
申请日:2017-08-21
Applicant: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
Inventor: Tong Zhao , Justin Brons , Michael Kautzky
CPC classification number: G11B5/6082 , G11B5/187 , G11B5/3106 , G11B5/40 , G11B2005/0021
Abstract: Devices having air bearing surfaces (ABS), the devices include a near field transducer (NFT) that includes a disc; a peg, the peg including gold (Au), silver (Ag), copper (Cu), aluminum (Al), rhodium (Rh), iridium (Ir), or combinations thereof; and the peg having a front surface at the air bearing surface of the device, an opposing back surface, a top surface that extends from the front surface to the back surface, two side surfaces that extend from the front surface to the back surface and a bottom surface that extends from the front surface to the back surface; and a protective layer disposed on at least one surface of the peg, the protective layer comprising an oxide of a metal that has a higher oxidation tendency than that of the material of the peg.
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公开(公告)号:US20180090159A1
公开(公告)日:2018-03-29
申请号:US15828381
申请日:2017-11-30
Applicant: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
Inventor: Tong Zhao , Yuhang Cheng , Martin Giles Blaber , Jie Gong , Edwin F. Rejda , Michael A. Seigler , Seung-Yeul Yang , Michael Kautzky , Yongjun Zhao , Justin Brons , Andrew J. Boyne , Kurt W. Wierman , Scott Franzen
CPC classification number: G11B5/314 , G11B5/012 , G11B5/127 , G11B5/1278 , G11B5/187 , G11B5/3106 , G11B5/3133 , G11B5/3136 , G11B5/3967 , G11B5/6088 , G11B2005/0021
Abstract: Devices having an air bearing surface (ABS) and including a write pole; a near field transducer (NFT) that includes a peg and a disc, wherein the peg includes a rear peg portion and a peg tip, the rear peg portion and the peg tip are different materials and the peg tip includes: one or more metals; one or more nanoparticles comprising oxides, nitrides, carbides or combinations thereof; one or more conducting oxides, conducting nitrides, conducting bromides, conducting carbides, or combinations thereof; one or more semiconductors; or combinations thereof.
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