公开(公告)号：US08208228B2

公开(公告)日：2012-06-26

申请号：US12565721

申请日：2009-09-23

申请人： Stefan Maat ,  James Terrence Olson ,  Hal J. Rosen

发明人： Stefan Maat ,  James Terrence Olson ,  Hal J. Rosen

IPC分类号： G11B5/39 ,  G11B5/11 ,  G11B5/265

CPC分类号： G11B5/746 ,  B82Y10/00 ,  G11B5/02 ,  G11B5/3948 ,  G11B5/3977 ,  G11B5/4886 ,  G11B5/743 ,  G11B2005/0005

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。

公开(公告)号：US07986491B2

公开(公告)日：2011-07-26

申请号：US12248117

申请日：2008-10-09

申请人： Thomas R Albrecht ,  Hal J. Rosen

发明人： Thomas R Albrecht ,  Hal J. Rosen

IPC分类号： G11B17/08

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。

公开(公告)号：US20100002487A1

公开(公告)日：2010-01-07

申请号：US12553670

申请日：2009-09-03

申请人： Robert E. Fontana, JR. ,  Andreas Moser ,  Hal J. Rosen ,  Bruce D. Terris ,  Ching Hwa Tsang

发明人： Robert E. Fontana, JR. ,  Andreas Moser ,  Hal J. Rosen ,  Bruce D. Terris ,  Ching Hwa Tsang

IPC分类号： G11C11/00 ,  G11C11/15 ,  G11C11/416

CPC分类号： G11C11/14 ,  G11C5/02 ,  G11C19/0808

摘要： Magnetic memories and methods are disclosed. A magnetic memory as described herein includes a plurality of stacked data storage layers to form a three-dimensional magnetic memory. Bits may be written to a data storage layer in the form of magnetic domains. The bits can then be transferred between the stacked data storage layers by heating a neighboring data storage layer, which allows the magnetic fields from the magnetic domains to imprint the magnetic domains in the neighboring data storage layer. By imprinting the magnetic domains into the neighboring data storage layer, the bits are copied from one data storage layer to another.

摘要翻译： 公开了磁存储器和方法。 如本文所述的磁存储器包括多个堆叠的数据存储层以形成三维磁存储器。 位可以以磁畴的形式写入数据存储层。 然后可以通过加热相邻数据存储层在堆叠的数据存储层之间传送这些位，这允许来自磁畴的磁场将磁畴压印在相邻的数据存储层中。 通过将磁畴印刷到相邻数据存储层中，将这些位从一个数据存储层复制到另一个。

公开(公告)号：US07488545B2

公开(公告)日：2009-02-10

申请号：US11403468

申请日：2006-04-12

申请人： Eric E. Fullerton ,  David Margulies ,  Hal J. Rosen ,  Natacha F. Supper

发明人： Eric E. Fullerton ,  David Margulies ,  Hal J. Rosen ,  Natacha F. Supper

IPC分类号： G11B5/66

CPC分类号： G11B5/66 ,  G11B5/65

摘要： A laminated perpendicular magnetic recording medium has two recording layers (RL1 and RL2) that are separated and magnetically decoupled by a nonmagnetic spacer layer (SL). The SL has a thickness and composition to assure there is no antiferromagnetic or ferromagnetic coupling between RL1 and RL2. Thus in the presence of the write field, RL1 and RL2 respond independently and become oriented with the direction of the write field. Each RL is an “exchange-spring” type magnetic recording layer formed of two ferromagnetic layers (MAG1 and MAG2) that have substantially perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and are ferromagnetically exchange-coupled by a nonmagnetic or weakly ferromagnetic coupling layer (CL). The medium takes advantage of lamination to attain higher signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) yet has improved writability as a result of each RL being an exchange-spring type RL.

摘要翻译： 层叠的垂直磁记录介质具有被非磁性间隔层（SL）分离并磁解除的两个记录层（RL1和RL2）。 SL具有厚度和组成，以确保在RL1和RL2之间不存在反铁磁或铁磁耦合。 因此，在存在写入场的情况下，RL1和RL2独立地响应并且随着写入场的方向而取向。 每个RL是由两个铁磁层（MAG1和MAG2）形成的“交换弹簧”型磁记录层，它们具有基本上垂直的磁各向异性，并通过非磁性或弱铁磁耦合层（CL）进行铁磁交换耦合。 介质利用层叠来获得更高的信噪比（SNR），而由于每个RL是交换弹簧型RL，所以具有改进的可写性。

公开(公告)号：US07177118B2

公开(公告)日：2007-02-13

申请号：US10853631

申请日：2004-05-24

申请人： Hoa Van Do ,  David Margulies ,  Hal J. Rosen ,  Natacha F. Supper

发明人： Hoa Van Do ,  David Margulies ,  Hal J. Rosen ,  Natacha F. Supper

IPC分类号： G11B5/012 ,  G11B5/62

CPC分类号： G11B5/66

摘要： A magnetic recording system uses a magnetic recording medium having a laminated magnetic structure with at least three magnetic layers, wherein the magnetic layers have decreasing intrinsic coercivity H0 with distance from the write head. The write field at the center of each magnetic layer is greater than that layer's H0. The magnetic layers have different compositions and/or thicknesses and thereby different values of H0. The alloys used in the middle and upper magnetic layers are relatively “high-moment” alloys that would not ordinarily be used in magnetic recording media because they have relatively low S0NR, but the overall S0NR of the laminated magnetic structure is improved because of the effect of lamination. The middle and upper magnetic layers can be made substantially thinner, which enables the magnetic layers to be located closer to the write head, thereby exposing each of the magnetic layers to a higher write field.

摘要翻译： 磁记录系统使用具有至少三个磁性层的层叠磁性结构的磁记录介质，其中磁层具有与写入头距离更小的固有矫顽力H 0 0。 每个磁性层的中心处的写入场大于该层的H 0 0。 磁性层具有不同的组成和/或厚度，从而具有不同的H 0 O值。 在中上层磁性层中使用的合金是相对“高力矩”的合金，它们通常不会用于磁记录介质，因为它们具有相对较低的S O N，但总体上S _{0得到改善。 可以使中上层磁性层和上磁性层实质上更薄，这使得磁层能够更靠近写入头位置，从而将每个磁性层暴露于较高的写入场。}

公开(公告)号：US08048546B2

公开(公告)日：2011-11-01

申请号：US12639975

申请日：2009-12-16

申请人： Thomas R Albrecht ,  Michael Konrad Grobis ,  Ernesto E. Marinero ,  Hal J. Rosen ,  Ricardo Ruiz

发明人： Thomas R Albrecht ,  Michael Konrad Grobis ,  Ernesto E. Marinero ,  Hal J. Rosen ,  Ricardo Ruiz

IPC分类号： G11B5/66

CPC分类号： G11B5/855 ,  B82Y10/00 ,  G11B5/65 ,  G11B5/7325 ,  G11B5/743 ,  G11B5/82

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。

公开(公告)号：US20110069413A1

公开(公告)日：2011-03-24

申请号：US12565721

申请日：2009-09-23

申请人： Stefan Maat ,  James Terrence Olson ,  Hal J. Rosen

发明人： Stefan Maat ,  James Terrence Olson ,  Hal J. Rosen

IPC分类号： G11B5/33 ,  G11B5/60

CPC分类号： G11B5/746 ,  B82Y10/00 ,  G11B5/02 ,  G11B5/3948 ,  G11B5/3977 ,  G11B5/4886 ,  G11B5/743 ,  G11B2005/0005

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。

公开(公告)号：US20100091408A1

公开(公告)日：2010-04-15

申请号：US12248117

申请日：2008-10-09

申请人： Thomas R. Albrecht ,  Hal J. Rosen

发明人： Thomas R. Albrecht ,  Hal J. Rosen

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。

公开(公告)号：US06704435B1

公开(公告)日：2004-03-09

申请号：US08841214

申请日：1997-04-28

申请人： Wayne Isami Imaino ,  Anthony Juliana ,  Milton Russell Latta ,  Charles H. Lee ,  Wai Cheung Leung ,  Hal J. Rosen ,  Steven Meeks ,  Richard Sonningfeld

发明人： Wayne Isami Imaino ,  Anthony Juliana ,  Milton Russell Latta ,  Charles H. Lee ,  Wai Cheung Leung ,  Hal J. Rosen ,  Steven Meeks ,  Richard Sonningfeld

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。

公开(公告)号：US4873430A

公开(公告)日：1989-10-10

申请号：US262558

申请日：1988-10-25

申请人： Anthony Juliana ,  Wai C. Leung ,  Victor T. Pan ,  Hal J. Rosen ,  Timothy C. Strand

发明人： Anthony Juliana ,  Wai C. Leung ,  Victor T. Pan ,  Hal J. Rosen ,  Timothy C. Strand

IPC分类号： G01B11/06 ,  G01B11/30 ,  G01N15/08 ,  G01N21/21 ,  G01N21/55 ,  G01N21/84

CPC分类号： G01N21/8422 ,  G01B11/065 ,  G01B11/303 ,  G01N2015/086 ,  G01N2021/4702 ,  G01N2021/555 ,  G01N21/21 ,  G01N2201/065

摘要： A method for optically measuring at least one characteristic of a thin film on a reflecting substrate. A p-polarized beam of collimated light of known intensity is directed through an integrating sphere onto the film at substantially the Brewster's angle of the film. All the light is reflected into the sphere, including all diffusely reflected light as well as the light specularly reflected at a region inside the sphere where the specularly reflected light is incident. A reflective surface is provided for determining the thickness of the film as a function of the total intensity of light sensed within the sphere. An absorptive surface is provided at said region for absorbing the specularly reflected light for determining the porosity or surface roughness of the film based on the intensity of the diffused light sensed within the sphere not reflected from the substrate.

摘要翻译： 一种用于光学测量反射基板上的薄膜的至少一种特性的方法。 具有已知强度的准直光的p偏振光束以基本上薄膜的布鲁斯特角穿过积分球。 所有的光被反射到球体中，包括所有漫反射光以及在镜面反射光入射的球体内的区域镜面反射的光。 提供反射表面，用于根据在球体内感测的光的总强度来确定膜的厚度。 吸收表面设置在所述区域处，用于吸收镜面反射光，用于基于未从衬底反射的球体内感测到的漫射光的强度确定膜的孔隙率或表面粗糙度。