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Nature Photonics 3, 189 - 190 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2009.40
Data storage: Heat-assisted magnetic recording
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Liang Pan and David B. Bogy are at the Computer Mechanics Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, 5146 Etcheverry Hall, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
e-mail: lpan@berkeley.edu; e-mail: dbogy@cml.me.berkeley.edu
Abstract
By using light to assist the recording process, hard disk drive capacity could potentially be increased by two orders of magnitude. The idea is to heat the magnetic medium locally, thus temporarily lowering its resistance to magnetic polarization.
