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公开(公告)号:US10431244B2
公开(公告)日:2019-10-01
申请号:US15864480
申请日:2018-01-08
Applicant: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
Inventor: Martin Blaber , Tong Zhao , Michael C. Kautzky , Justin Brons , John C. Duda , Yuhang Cheng , Michael A. Seigler
Abstract: Devices that have an air bearing surface (ABS), the device includes a near field transducer (NFT) that includes a disc configured to convert photons incident thereon into plasmons; and a peg configured to couple plasmons coupled from the disc into an adjacent magnetic storage medium, wherein the disc includes a disc material that includes gold or an alloy thereof and the peg includes a peg material, wherein the disc material is different from the peg material and wherein the peg material has a real part of the permittivity that is not greater than that of gold.
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公开(公告)号:US20170345448A1
公开(公告)日:2017-11-30
申请号:US15664189
申请日:2017-07-31
Applicant: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
Inventor: Martin Blaber , Michael A. Seigler , Michael C. Kautzky , Tong Zhao , Justin Brons , John C. Duda , Yuhang Cheng
CPC classification number: G11B5/314 , G11B5/3116 , G11B5/3133 , G11B2005/0021
Abstract: Devices having air bearing surfaces (ABS), the devices include a near field transducer (NFT) that includes a disc configured to convert photons incident thereon into plasmons; and a peg configured to couple plasmons coupled from the disc into an adjacent magnetic storage medium, wherein the disc includes a disc material and the peg includes a peg material, wherein the disc material is different from the peg material and wherein the disc material has a first real part of the permittivity and a peg material has a second real part of the permittivity and the second real part of the permittivity is not greater than the first real part of the permittivity.
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公开(公告)号:US09822444B2
公开(公告)日:2017-11-21
申请号:US14938018
申请日:2015-11-11
Applicant: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
Inventor: Tong Zhao , Michael C. Kautzky , Sarbeswar Sahoo , Justin Brons , Jie Gong , Yuhang Cheng
CPC classification number: C23C14/5806 , G11B5/314 , G11B5/6088 , G11B2005/0021
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, and a method of forming NFT thereof.
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公开(公告)号:US20200224307A1
公开(公告)日:2020-07-16
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:US20190051319A1
公开(公告)日:2019-02-14
申请号:US16160661
申请日:2018-10-15
Applicant: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
Inventor: Justin Brons , Tong Zhao , Yuhang Cheng , Dimitar V. Dimitrov
CPC classification number: G11B5/314 , G11B5/3133 , G11B2005/0021
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:US20180144765A1
公开(公告)日:2018-05-24
申请号:US15864480
申请日:2018-01-08
Applicant: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
Inventor: Martin Blaber , Tong Zhao , Michael C. Kautzky , Justin Brons , John C. Duda , Yuhang Cheng , Michael A. Seigler
CPC classification number: G11B5/314 , G11B5/3116 , G11B5/3133 , G11B2005/0021
Abstract: Devices that have an air bearing surface (ABS), the device includes a near field transducer (NFT) that includes a disc configured to convert photons incident thereon into plasmons; and a peg configured to couple plasmons coupled from the disc into an adjacent magnetic storage medium, wherein the disc includes a disc material that includes gold or an alloy thereof and the peg includes a peg material, wherein the disc material is different from the peg material and wherein the peg material has a real part of the permittivity that is not greater than that of gold.
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公开(公告)号:US20170316793A1
公开(公告)日:2017-11-02
申请号:US15613393
申请日:2017-06-05
Applicant: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
Inventor: Martin Blaber , Tong Zhao , Justin Brons , Michael Kautzky
CPC classification number: G11B5/314 , G11B5/3163 , G11B5/6082 , G11B5/6088 , G11B2005/0021
Abstract: Devices having air bearing surfaces (ABS), the devices including a near field transducer (NFT) that includes a disc configured to convert photons incident thereon into plasmons; and a peg configured to couple plasmons coupled from the disc into an adjacent magnetic storage medium, wherein at least one of a portion of the peg, a portion of the disc, or a portion of both the peg and the disc include a multilayer structure including at least two layers including at least one layer of a first material and at least one layer of a second material, wherein the first material and the second material are not the same and wherein the first and the second materials independently include aluminum (Al), antimony (Sb), bismuth (Bi), boron (B), barium (Ba), calcium (Ca), cerium (Ce), chromium (Cr), cobalt (Co), copper (Cu), erbium (Er), gadolinium (Gd), gallium (Ga), germanium (Ge), gold (Au), hafnium (Hf), indium (In), iridium (Ir), iron (Fe), lanthanum (La), magnesium (Mg), manganese (Mn), molybdenum (Mo), nickel (Ni), niobium (Nb), osmium (Os), palladium (Pd), platinum (Pt), rhenium (Re), rhodium (Rh), ruthenium (Ru), scandium (Sc), silicon (Si), silver (Ag), strontium (Sr), tantalum (Ta), thorium (Th), tin (Sn), titanium (Ti), vanadium (V), tungsten (W), ytterbium (Yb), yttrium (Y), zirconium (Zr), or combinations thereof.
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公开(公告)号:US09741381B1
公开(公告)日:2017-08-22
申请号:US15166774
申请日:2016-05-27
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:US20190153590A1
公开(公告)日:2019-05-23
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
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:US10037771B2
公开(公告)日:2018-07-31
申请号:US15664189
申请日:2017-07-31
Applicant: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
Inventor: Martin Blaber , Michael A. Seigler , Michael C. Kautzky , Tong Zhao , Justin Brons , John C. Duda , Yuhang Cheng
CPC classification number: G11B5/314 , G11B5/3116 , G11B5/3133 , G11B2005/0021
Abstract: Devices having air bearing surfaces (ABS), the devices include a near field transducer (NFT) that includes a disc configured to convert photons incident thereon into plasmons; and a peg configured to couple plasmons coupled from the disc into an adjacent magnetic storage medium, wherein the disc includes a disc material and the peg includes a peg material, wherein the disc material is different from the peg material and wherein the disc material has a first real part of the permittivity and a peg material has a second real part of the permittivity and the second real part of the permittivity is not greater than the first real part of the permittivity.
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