Optical data storage system with multiple write-once phase-change
recording layers
    11.
    发明授权
    Optical data storage system with multiple write-once phase-change recording layers 失效
    具有多个一次写入相变记录层的光学数据存储系统

    公开(公告)号:US5555537A

    公开(公告)日:1996-09-10

    申请号:US497518

    申请日:1995-06-30

    摘要: An optical disk drive uses an optical disk with spatially separated multiple phase-change WORM recording layers. The optical disk has a light transmissive substrate onto which the laser light is incident. The substrate supports at least two spatially separated multi-film recording stacks, each stack including an active recording layer of phase-change WORM material. The disk is either an air-gap structure wherein each recording stack is supported on a separate substrate and the substrates are separated by an air-gap, or a solid structure wherein a solid light transmissive spacer layer separates the recording stacks. Each of the recording stacks located between the substrate on which the laser light is incident and the farthest recording stack includes an active phase-change recording layer and an optical interference film in contact with the recording layer. The recording layer is made sufficiently thin to have good light transmissivity, but at this low thickness, without any other layers, is not sufficiently reflective to act as a recording layer with suitable servo and recording performance. The optical interference film in contact with the recording layer has a high index of refraction relative to the adjacent recording layer and spacer to increase the optical interference effect in the recording stack. The optical interference film optimizes the contrast, reflectivity and transmissivity of the recording stack. The optical interference film has low absorption so that laser light can pass through it to focus on a farther recording layer. This allows the farther recording layers to be written using reasonable laser power.

    摘要翻译: 光盘驱动器使用具有空间分离的多相变WORM记录层的光盘。 光盘具有入射激光的透光基板。 衬底支撑至少两个空间分离的多层记录堆叠,每个堆叠包括相变WORM材料的活性记录层。 磁盘是气隙结构,其中每个记录堆叠被支撑在单独的基板上,并且基板被气隙分离,或者固体透光隔离层分离记录堆叠的固体结构。 位于其上入射的基板和最远的记录堆叠之间的记录堆叠中的每一个包括与记录层接触的有源相变记录层和光学干涉膜。 记录层被制成足够薄以具有良好的光透射率,但是在没有任何其它层的这个低厚度下,不能充分反射以用作具有适当的伺服和记录性能的记录层。 与记录层接触的光学干涉膜相对于相邻的记录层和间隔物具有高的折射率,以增加记录堆叠中的光学干涉效应。 光学干涉膜优化了记录堆叠的对比度,反射率和透射率。 光学干涉膜具有低吸收,使得激光可以通过它来聚焦在更远的记录层上。 这允许使用合理的激光功率写入更远的记录层。

    Perpendicular magnetic recording disk with ordered nucleation layer and method for making the disk
    13.
    发明授权
    Perpendicular magnetic recording disk with ordered nucleation layer and method for making the disk 有权
    具有有序成核层的垂直磁记录盘及其制造方法

    公开(公告)号:US08048546B2

    公开(公告)日:2011-11-01

    申请号:US12639975

    申请日:2009-12-16

    IPC分类号: G11B5/66

    摘要: A continuous-media perpendicular magnetic recording disk with an oxide-containing granular Co alloy recording layer (RL) having minimal grain size dispersion has an ordered nucleation layer (ONL) formed below RL. The ONL has ordered nucleation sites arranged in a generally repetitive pattern. The nucleation sites are generally surrounded by non-nucleation regions of a different material than the nucleation sites. The Co-alloy grains of the subsequently deposited RL grow on the nucleation sites and the oxide of the RL become generally segregated on the non-nucleation regions. The ordered nucleation sites may be formed of a Ru-containing material and the non-nucleation regions may be formed of an oxide. The ONL is formed by nanoimprint lithography, preferably by a master mold fabricated with a method using self-assembling block copolymers for creating periodic nanometer scale features.

    摘要翻译: 具有最小晶粒尺寸分散体的具有含氧化物的颗粒状钴合金记录层(RL)的连续介质垂直磁记录盘具有形成在RL以下的有序成核层(ONL)。 ONL已经订购了以一般重复模式排列的成核位点。 成核位点通常被与成核位点不同的材料的非成核区包围。 随后沉积的RL的Co合金晶粒生长在成核位点,并且RL的氧化物通常在非成核区域上分离。 有序的成核位点可以由含Ru的材料形成,并且非成核区域可以由氧化物形成。 ONL由纳米压印光刻形成,优选通过使用自组装嵌段共聚物制备周期性纳米尺度特征的方法制造的母模。

    CURRENT-PERPENDICULAR-TO-THE-PLANE (CPP) MAGNETORESISTIVE READ HEAD WITH MULTIPLE SENSING ELEMENTS FOR PATTERNED-MEDIA
    14.
    发明申请
    CURRENT-PERPENDICULAR-TO-THE-PLANE (CPP) MAGNETORESISTIVE READ HEAD WITH MULTIPLE SENSING ELEMENTS FOR PATTERNED-MEDIA 有权
    具有多种传感元件的电流 - 平面(CPP)磁性读取头

    公开(公告)号:US20110069413A1

    公开(公告)日:2011-03-24

    申请号:US12565721

    申请日:2009-09-23

    IPC分类号: G11B5/33 G11B5/60

    摘要: A magnetoresistive (MR) sensor or read head for a magnetic recording disk drive has multiple independent current-perpendicular-to-the-plane (CPP) MR sensing elements. The sensing elements are spaced-apart in the cross-track direction and separated by an insulating separation region so as to be capable of reading data from multiple data tracks on the disk. The sensing elements have independent CPP sense currents, each of which is directed to independent data detection electronics, respectively. Each sensing element comprises a stack of layers formed on a common electrically conducting base layer, which may be a bottom magnetic shield layer formed of electrically conducting magnetically permeable material. Each sensing element has a top electrical lead layer. A top magnetic shield layer is located above the sensing elements in contact with the top lead layers. The top shield layer is formed of soft magnetically permeable material, but is electrically insulating, so that the independent sense currents can be passed to the independent sensing elements.

    摘要翻译: 用于磁记录磁盘驱动器的磁阻(MR)传感器或读头具有多个独立的电流垂直于平面(CPP)MR感测元件。 感测元件在交叉轨道方向上间隔开并且被绝缘分离区分开,以便能够从盘上的多个数据轨道读取数据。 感测元件具有独立的CPP感测电流,每个电流分别被引导到独立的数据检测电子器件。 每个感测元件包括形成在公共导电基底层上的一叠层,其可以是由导电的导磁材料形成的底部磁屏蔽层。 每个感测元件具有顶部电引线层。 顶部磁屏蔽层位于与顶部引线层接触的感测元件上方。 顶部屏蔽层由软磁导电材料形成,但是是电绝缘的,使得独立的感测电流可以传递到独立的感测元件。

    HARD DISK DRIVE WITH DISK SEPARATOR FOR CREATING AXIAL GAPS BETWEEN DISKS FOR ACCESS BY READ/WRITE HEADS
    15.
    发明申请
    HARD DISK DRIVE WITH DISK SEPARATOR FOR CREATING AXIAL GAPS BETWEEN DISKS FOR ACCESS BY READ/WRITE HEADS 有权
    硬盘驱动器,带磁盘分离器,用于创建用于读/写头访问的磁盘之间的轴向GAPS

    公开(公告)号:US20100091408A1

    公开(公告)日:2010-04-15

    申请号:US12248117

    申请日:2008-10-09

    IPC分类号: G11B5/48

    CPC分类号: G11B17/26 G11B17/021

    摘要: A hard disk drive (HDD) has a stack of disks mounted on a rotatable spindle with the disks being movable axially, i.e., in a direction parallel to the axis of rotation of the spindle. A disk separator is located inside the spindle and separates axially-adjacent disks in a pair to create an axial gap. Any pair of axially-adjacent disks can be separated so that different axial gaps are created. A single head-arm assembly with at least one and preferably two read write heads is movable axially so that it can be rotated by the rotary actuator into any one of the axial gaps. The read/write heads can thus access data on the disk surfaces in the axial gaps. When it is desired to have the disk separator create an new axial gap and thus a new pair of disk surfaces to be accessed, the actuator rotates the head-arm assembly away from the outer perimeters of the disks and moves the read/write heads onto a head support structure that supports the read/write heads off the disks.

    摘要翻译: 硬盘驱动器(HDD)具有安装在可旋转主轴上的盘堆,盘可以轴向移动,即在与主轴的旋转轴线平行的方向上移动。 磁盘分离器位于主轴内部并且分离成一对轴向相邻的磁盘以产生轴向间隙。 可以分离任何一对轴向相邻的盘,使得产生不同的轴向间隙。 具有至少一个并且优选两个读写头的单个头臂组件可轴向移动,使得其可以由旋转致动器旋转到任何一个轴向间隙中。 因此,读/写头可以在轴向间隙中访问磁盘表面上的数据。 当希望磁盘分离器产生新的轴向间隙并且因此产生一对新的待访问的盘表面时,致动器将头臂组件旋转远离盘的外周,并将读/写头移动到 一个头部支持结构,支持磁盘上的读/写磁头。

    Surface inspection tool
    16.
    发明授权
    Surface inspection tool 失效
    表面检测工具

    公开(公告)号:US06704435B1

    公开(公告)日:2004-03-09

    申请号:US08841214

    申请日:1997-04-28

    IPC分类号: G06K900

    CPC分类号: G01N21/9506

    摘要: A laser based inspection tool (LIT) for inspecting planar surfaces is described. In a preferred embodiment the LIT can simultaneously inspect both planar surfaces of disks for use in disk drives. In one embodiment of the invention, the incident beam is directed onto the surface to be inspected at an angle slightly offset from perpendicular so that the reflected beam is physically separated from the incident beam. The reflected beam is routed to a detector which converts the intensity of the reflected into an analog signal. The analog signal is sampled and digitized to generate pixel data stored in a buffer. Various analyses are performed on the data including calculating a rate of change in the pixel data. If the rate of change in the pixel data exceeds a selected threshold that indicates a possible defect if it occurs in the data area of the disk.

    摘要翻译: 描述了一种用于检查平面的激光检测工具(LIT)。 在优选实施例中,LIT可以同时检查用于磁盘驱动器的磁盘的两个平面表面。 在本发明的一个实施例中,入射光束以与垂直稍微偏移的角度被引导到待检查的表面上,使得反射光束与入射光束物理分离。 反射光束被路由到检测器,该检测器将反射的强度转换成模拟信号。 模拟信号被采样和数字化以产生存储在缓冲器中的像素数据。 对包括计算像素数据的变化率的数据进行各种分析。 如果像素数据的变化率超过选择的阈值,如果在磁盘的数据区域中发生可能的缺陷则表示可能的缺陷。