Magnetic head including a pole layer and an antireflection film sandwiched by two shields

Method for specifying control value for controlling clearance adjustment amount between head and disk, disk drive device and manufacturing method thereof

Dynamic flying height read/write head with off-track contact capability at touch down in hard disk drives

Magnetic recording device including a thermal proximity sensor

Thin-film magnetic head having heating element with lower-resistance portion

METHOD FOR MEASURING WIDTH OF PLATING LAYER, MAGNETIC RECORDING HEAD, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF

Magnetic recording device with an integrated microelectronic device

Magnetic head slider

Disk drive device, altitude determination method therefore and method for determining characteristic of head element portion

Thin film structure with controlled lateral thermal spreading in the thin film

HEAD SLIDER AND STORAGE MEDIUM DRIVE

Manufacturing method for magnetic disk drive

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SPACING CONTROL IN A DISK DRIVE

Method of forming a magnetic read/write head

Enabling intermittent contact recording on-demand

Seed layer for a heat spreader in a magnetic recording head

Thin film magnetic head with protrusion heater and temperature correcting resistor

Perpendicular Recording Head Having Controlled Permeability and Saturation Moment

Thin film magnetic head using a shunt line connecting to the magnetic layer at a position that deviates from the center of the heat generating region

Magnetic write head with thermoelectric cooling device

Disk drive with head fly-height compensation for disk surface variations

Method and apparatus for oxidizing conductive redeposition in TMR sensors

Magnetic spacing and tape characteristic compensation system and method

Magnetic head structure with diagonal of rectangular-shaped height monitor extending along track width direction

Head slider and method of making the same and grinding apparatus for head slider

Manufacturing method of Head Gimbal Assembly, head slider, and storage device

Wafer and insulation characteristic monitoring method

Fly height actuator/void region in basecoat

Head slider including heater causing expansion of lower shielding layer

Head amplifier with a heat controller

Head slider having protruding head element and apparatus for determining protrusion amount of head element

Thin film magnetic head including thermal deformation-preventing layer

Thin-film magnetic head with coil-insulating layer that thermal expansion coefficient and young'S modulus are specified

Magnetic head and storage medium drive

Magnetic sensor and memory device

Head slider and method of manufacturing same

Head slider, glide height checking apparatus, and glide height checking method

Patterned magnetic recording head having a gap pattern with substantially elliptical or substantially diamond-shaped termination pattern

Magnetic media having a non timing based servo track written with a patterned magnetic recording head and process for making the same

Closed loop fly height control

Apparatus and method for piezoelectric layer as vertical micro-actuator in slider of a hard disk drive

Apparatus and method for preventing excessive thermal pole tip protrusion in slider of a hard disk drive

Magnetic write head design for reducing temperature induced protrusion

Method of fabricating a GMR head

Magnetic head slider

Method of manufacturing thin-film magnetic head

Transducer-data storage medium spacing adjustment

THIN-FILM MAGNETIC HEAD HAVING CONTROLLED LEVITATION AMOUNT BY LOCALLY PROJECTING AN ELEMENT PORTION TOWARD RECORDING MEDIUM USING THERMAL EXPANSION

Flying head slider and recording medium drive

Magnetic head structure with enlarged insulating layer

Method of manufacturing thin film magnetic head having lower shield layer embedded in insulating

Main pole forming method of perpendicular magnetic recording head

Magnetic head structure with enlarged insulating layer

Contact type thin film magnetic head with heaters for distance control

Thin-film magnetic head with closure and manufacturing method of the head

Method for making a magnetic head having a non-GMR shunt

Magnetic recording head with ESD shunt trace

Thin film magnetic head having heating element

Method to increase CCP-CPP GMR output by thermoelectric cooling

Thin-film magnetic head with heating element and heatsink

Writer heater for thermal protrusion shape control in a magnetic writer

Magnetic disk unit and magnetic head slider

Composite thin-film magnetic head, magnetic head assembly and magnetic disk drive apparatus

Magnetic head slider with shock absorption layer and manufacturing the same

Heat resistant photomask for high temperature fabrication processes

Magnetic head slider for absorbing vibrations

Head design with low coefficient of thermal expansion insert layer

Magnetic head structure

Method for using CVD process to encapsulate coil in a magnetic write head

Double layer patterning and technique for milling patterns for a servo recording head

Magnetoresistance effect element, magnetic head and magnetic recording and/or reproducing system

Magnetic media having a servo track written with a patterned magnetic recording head

Method of polishing film to be polished

Magnetic head having an antistripping layer for preventing a magnetic layer from stripping

CPP-type magnetic head with less deformation and a magnetic recording/reproducing system using the same

Etch-stop layers for patterning block structures for reducing thermal protrusion

Tungsten heat sink structures in a thin film magnetic head

Perpendicular recording head having controlled permeability and saturation moment

Disk drive slider design for thermal fly-height control and burnishing-on-demand

Method of fabricating a magnetic recording head for perpendicular recording with enhanced covering power

Silicon-made magnetic head slider

Thin-film coil, coil driving circuit and magnetic head

High reliability heater for flying height control

Thin film magnetic head including a heat dissipation layer, method of manufacturing the same and magnetic disk drive

Magnetic head having a heater circuit for thermally-assisted writing

Perpendicular magnetic recording head utilizing tensile stress to optimize magnetic pole layer domain structure

Disk drive with slider burnishing-on-demand

Thin-film magnetic head with heater spaced further from medium facing surface than split in shield

Transducer assembly for thermally assisted writing and read back in data storage devices

Recording head for reducing side track erasure

Large protrusion recording head for controlled magnetic spacing recording/reading

Method and apparatus for oxidizing conductive redeposition in TMR sensors

Electrodeposition of FeCoNiV films with high resistivity and high saturation magnetization for magnetic head fabrication

Recessed SiO2 or Si3N4 overcoat for GMR head in magnetic disk drive

Magnetic recording head with reduced thermally induced protrusion

Method for fabricating a thin film magnetic head

Fabrication of self-aligned reflective/protective overlays on magnetoresistance sensors

Heat extractor for magnetic reader-writer

Magnetic head structure with insulating layer configured to reduce thermal deformation of floating surface towards disk

Read/write device, storage medium, driving method of read/write device, semiconductor laser life estimation method, program, program storage medium, and semiconductor laser

Magnetic head having heat sink structure

Magnetic head having thermally assisted recording device, and method of fabrication thereof

Storage device and method of using a head that has a concave surface when powered down

Magnetoresistance effect element, magnetic head and magnetic recording and/or reproducing system

Method of manufacturing a magnetic head having short pole yoke length

Method of manufacturing thin-film magnetic head having a magnetism intercepting layer provided between read head and write head

Method of manufacturing a thin film magnetic head

Magnetic head having high conductivity lead structures seeded by epitaxially matched seed layer and fabrication method therefor

Electromagnetic transducer element capable of suppressing rise in temperature of electromagnetic transducer film

Method to improve heat dissipation in a magnetic shield

Thin film magnetic head slider, magnetic head support mechanism, magnetic disk drive, and method of manufacturing magnetic head

Structures for pole-tip actuation

Thin film magnetic head and magnetic recording apparatus with partitioned heat sink layer

Large protrusion recording head for controlled magnetic spacing recording/reading

Thin-film magnetic head and method of forming the same

Method of forming a thin film magnetic head

Magnetic hard disk recording head with self-compensating thermal expansion

Localized pole tip heating device for magnetic head for hard disk drive

Heat-assisted magnetic recording head with nanoparticles

Magnetic flux guiding device with spin torque oscillator (STO) film having negative spin polarization layers in assisted writing application

Method of for bonding noble metal structure with a dielectric layer using an adhesive layer

Cross track current design for energy assisted magnetic recording

Recording head with focusing structure

Spintronic device having negative interface spin scattering

Heat-assisted recording head using blue to ultraviolet wavelength laser

Patterned reader shields for a cooler reader

Perpendicular magnetic recording write head with heater and heat sink for providing temperature gradient across the main pole

MAMR recording head with high damping trailing shield seed layer

Shape designs of magnetic flux guiding devices all around the main pole in assisted writing applications

Notched leading-edge shield for assisted magnetic recording head

Adhesive layer for bonding noble metal structure with a dielectric layer

Spin-orbit torque induced magnetization switching in a magnetic recording head

Magnetic recording write head with spin-torque oscillator (STO) and extended seed layer

Dual writer designs with SOT and STT assisted recording

MAMR recording head with high damping trailing shield seed layer

Reflective heatsink structures for heat-assisted magnetic recording heads

Dual writer for advanced magnetic recording

Amplifying structure for microwave-assisted magnetic recording

Heat-assisted magnetic recording head having near-field transducer with nanorod and diffusion barrier plate

Heat-assisted magnetic recording head with near-field transducer having first and second surface-plasmonic plates

Magnetic recording devices using virtual side shields for improved areal density capability

Three terminal magnetic recording head

Servo wedge skipping during track seeking

Thin-film crystalline structure with surfaces having selected plane orientations

Writer with narrower high moment trailing shield

Write heads having conducting side gap for directing current

Shape designs of magnetic flux guiding devices all around the main pole in assisted writing applications

Writer with recessed spin flipping element in the main pole surrounding gap

Reversed mode spin torque oscillator with shaped field generation layer

Transfer-printed near-field transducer and heat sink

Bond-pad sharing for head-level thermocouple

Perpendicular magnetic recording write head with heater and heat sink for providing temperature gradient across the main pole

Writer with recessed spin flipping element in the write gap

Magnetic disk device and control method for magnetic disk device

Closed-loop fly height control using transfer function between harmonic response and heater input

Heat-assisted magnetic recording head configured to conduct heat away from slider components to a substrate

Magnetic head with current assisted magnetic recording and method of making thereof

Heat-assisted magnetic recording head having a trench on aperture waveguide output end

Dual write heater for slider surface topography control in double perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) writers

Temperature control in a transducing head

Magnetic core and coil design for double perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) writers

Slider with heat sink between read transducer and substrate

Electrical isolation of read sensors during fabrication

Magnetic recording head with spin torque oscillator, head gimbal assembly and magnetic recording apparatus

Magnetic recording head with spin torque oscillator, head gimbal assembly and magnetic recording apparatus

Areal density capability improvement with spin-orbit torque based structures surrounding main pole tip

Dual spin-orbit torque oscillator in magnetic recording

Spin-orbit torque based magnetic recording

Spin-orbit torque based magnetic recording

Magnetic write transducer with flat pole section

Magnetic tape abrasivity measurement

Microwave-assisted magnetic recording head and magnetic recording and reproducing device

Changing write coil current in response to reader instability

C-shaped near-field transducer including a peg for heat-assisted magnetic recording device

Bond pad sharing for powering multiple heaters of a magnetic recording head

Bond pad sharing for powering multiple components of a recording head

Near-field transducer with isolated peg

Heat-assisted magnetic recording head configured to conduct heat away from slider components to a substrate

Slider utilizing multiple transducer sets

Microwave assisted magnetic head, head gimbal assembly, and magnetic recording device

Closed-loop fly height control using sector-specific, repeatable VGA values

Recording head with electrically removable component

Heat assisted magnetic recording write apparatus having a dielectric gap

Implementing spin torque oscillator erasure prevention in microwave-assisted magnetic recording (MAMR) hard disk drives

Split-ring resonator (SRR) NFT design for use in HAMR

Write parameters used to ensure accurate phase lock during reading of a heat-assisted magnetic recording medium

Heat assisted magnetic recording writer having an integrated polarization rotation plate

Current boost profile applied to laser during heat-assisted magnetic recording

Slider with spin-torque oscillator (STO) and STO corrosion monitor

Near-field transducer with multiple heat sinks

Multichannel data storage apparatus having abrasion resistant barrier

Microwave assisted magnetic recording (MAMR) write head and system

Write head having two yokes