Simulation on near-field light on recording medium generated by semiconductor ring resonator with metal nano-antenna for heat-assisted magnetic recording

Optical Review - Heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) is a promising technology for achieving more than 10 Tbit/inch2 recording density. A near-field transducer (NFT), which forms a small light...     

Simulation on double-ring-resonator-type device considering gain for heat-assisted magnetic recording

Optical Review - Heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) is a promising technology for improving the recording density of hard disk drives. A near-field transducer (NFT), which forms a small light...     

Simulation on parameter optimization of semiconductor ring resonator with nano-antenna for heat-assisted magnetic recording device

Optical Review - Heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) is a promising technology with high recording density. The authors’ group has proposed a novel device for HAMR, in which a metal...     

Simulation on parameter optimization of gold nano-antenna attached to semiconductor ring resonator for heat-assisted magnetic recording device

Heat-assisted magnetic recording is a technology to improve recording density for hard disks. The authors’ group has proposed a device, in which a gold nano-antenna as a near-field transducer is attached to a semiconductor ring resonator as an integrated light source. Localized surface plasmon resonance at the tip of nano-antenna excites near-field light to form small recorded marks to increase recording density. In this study, to improve the device performance, the dependence of spot size and energy density of near-field light on tip curvature, length, and bottom diameter of nano-antenna was investigated through a numerical simulation. Cylinder type and cone type nano-antennas were considered. For both types, as the tip curvature of nano-antenna increased, the spot size decreased and the energy density increased. It was possible to reduce the spot size to 18 × 18 nm². For cylinder type, there was an optimal length of nano-antenna where the energy density became maximum, and the optimal length changed depending on the presence or absence of recording medium. This was because of the difference in plasmon resonance condition. Moreover, for cone type, there was an optimal bottom diameter of nano-antenna where the energy density became maximum, and the optimal bottom diameter changed depending on the length of nano-antenna.

     

Characterization of heat-assisted magnetic probe recording on CoNi/Pt multilayers

A method of heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) potentially suitable for probe-based storage systems is characterized. In this work, field emission current from a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) tip is used as the heating source. Pulse voltages of 2–7 V were applied to a CoNi/Pt multilayered film fabricated on either bare silicon or oxidized silicon substrates. Different types of Ir/Pt and W STM tips were used in the experiment. The results show that thermally recorded magnetic marks are formed with a nearly uniform mark size of 170 nm on the film fabricated on bare silicon substrate when the pulse voltage is above a threshold voltage. The mark size becomes 260 nm when they are written on the identical film fabricated on an oxidized silicon substrate. The threshold voltage depends on the material work function of the tip, with W having a threshold voltage about 1 V lower than Pt. A synthesized model, which contains the calculation of the emission current, the simulation of heat transfer during heating, and the study of magnetic domain formation, was introduced to explain experimental results. The simulation agrees well with the experiments.     

Characterization of media cross-track thermal profile in heat-assisted magnetic recording

In the heat-assisted magnetic recording, the thermal profile of the media affects the recording performance seriously. Unfortunately, there is no direct method to measure it dynamically. In this paper, an indirect method is proposed to characterize the cross-track thermal profile with the spin-stand. The experimental results indicate that the local temperature increase has nonlinear relationship with the laser power. As the laser power increases, the thermal profile width increases. The media has a higher temperature increase and a bigger thermal profile at a slower rotation speed. The reasons for these phenomena are explained as well.     

Research and development of metal powder for magnetic recording

Since its first application within the compact cassette in 1978, magnetic recording media using metal powder have been improved at a rate of roughly 1 dB per year as a result of advances in such fields as tape materials, tape-making technologies, etc. Today, metal tapes have a widely expanded application area, including video and data-information applications. Dowa Mining Co., Ltd., began its research regarding magnetic powder for recording media in 1978. The Company successfully developed metal powder for 8 mm video tape. Since then, Dowa has endeavored to improve the magnetic properties and reduce the particle size of metal powder. It accomplishes these goals through the full use of the Company's unique Al doping method. Especially, during the past several years, significant improvements of the magnetic properties of metal powder have been achieved. These improvements have resulted from the introduction of new technologies, including Fe–Co alloying, sintering prevention, new reaction processes, and many other new techniques. Currently, Dowa Mining is supplying a new type of metal powder for the most technologically advanced high-density recording media. Dowa's new metal powder has an axis length of 0.1 μm, H_c of 2400 Oe, and σ_s of 155 emu/g.     

Permanent recording of light helicity on optically inactive metal surfaces

We report on an unusual permanent recording of light helicity on optically achiral metals. Following a number of circularly polarized (CP) or elliptically polarized (EP) femtosecond laser pulses, well-defined periodic surface structures are found on metal surfaces. These surface structures show different orientation when formed by left CP/EP compared with right CP/EP light. The formation of these structures is attributed to the interference between the incident light and the excited surface plasmons. To our knowledge, this is the only phenomenon that can permanently record light helicity with an optically inactive material.     

Decoupling technique of patch antenna arrays with shared substrate by suppressing near-field magnetic coupling using magnetic metamaterials

In this paper,we propose the decoupling technique of patch antenna array by suppressing near-field magnetic coupling(NFMC) using magnetic metamaterials.To this end,a highly-integrated magnetic metamaterials,the substrate-integrated split-ring resonator(SI-SRR),is firstly proposed to achieve negative permeability at the antenna operating frequency.By integrating SI-SRR in between two closely spaced antennas,magnetic fields are blocked in the shared substrate due to negative permeability of SI-SRR,reducing NFMC between the two antennas.To verify the technique,a prototype was fabricated and measured.The measured results demonstrated that the isolation can be enhanced by more than 17 dB even when the gap between the two patch antennas is only about 0.067 A.Due to high integration,this technique provides an effective alternative to high-isolation antenna array.     

水下Co-60源切伦科夫辐射的蒙卡模拟

随着核应用领域的不断拓宽,放射源丢失事故发生的概率也随之增加。机载伽马谱仪可有效搜寻地面放射源,然而对于放射源丢失于水域的情况,由于伽马射线经由水层屏蔽后可探测性降低,故利用放射源在水中产生的切伦科夫辐射对其进行搜寻显得十分重要。采用MCNP与Geant4相结合的方法,以及在Geant4程序中采用接续计算技巧,对Co-60源在水中的切伦科夫光产生以及传输进行了计算,计算表明,切伦科夫光经水中传播后,主要波段在300~600 nm,强度呈由边缘到中心渐强的特征分布,分布范围大致与放射源在水中的深度一致,在水中传输300 m后其光通量约为100 cm^-2,可利用光谱特征和强度分布特征对其进行测量。     

编码源中子成像的可见光模拟

采用编码源能大大提高中子成像的中子注量率,同时保持较高的准直比。对改进的均匀冗余矩阵编码源中子成像进行了计算机模拟并利用可见光进行了实验,初步验证了编码源中子成像的可行性,并且探索了各种在非理想条件下成像对图像质量的影响并提出了解决方法。结果表明,编码源配合相关算法能够较好地重建图像,反解后的物体尺寸及分辨能力与单孔成像相当,同时缩短了曝光时间。若物体与理想成像面存在着位置或旋转偏差,则投影大小与探测器CCD像素、解码矩阵尺寸便不能对齐,但仍可以通过对图像背景噪声标准差的计算来后期修正图像,也可以利用此方法在实验前确定编码源成像系统中理想成像面的位置,以确保图像质量。     

Dependence of mark size on STM pulse voltage in heat-assisted magnetic probe recording on a cobalt–nickel–platinum thin film

This paper presents a method of heat-assisted magnetic probe recording on perpendicular medium. Electrical current from scanning tunneling microscope (STM) is employed as the major heating source. Recording medium is a strongly-coupled CoNi/Pt multilayered film. Pulses with amplitude of 3–7 V and duration of 200 ns were applied between the STM tip and the recording medium. Experiments show that magnetic marks with an average size of 184 nm were formed for voltages above 4 V. A model is built to simulate the formation of magnetic domains in the processing of probe-based magnetic recording. Simulation results agree with experiments well.     

Simulation studies on laser pulse stability for Dalian coherent light source

Dalian Coherent Light Source will use a 300 MeV LINAC to produce fully coherent photon pulses in the wavelength range between 150–50 nm by high gain harmonic generation free electron laser(FEL)scheme.To generate stable FEL pulses,a stringent tolerance budget is required for the LINAC output parameters,such as the mean beam energy stability,electron bunch arrival time jitter,peak current variation and the transverse beam position ofset.In order to provide guidance for the design of the Dalian Coherent Light Source,in this paper,the sensitivity of FEL pulse energy fluctuation to various error sources of the electron bunch was performed using intensive start-to-end FEL simulations.     

Simulation of light scattering by a particle on a film-coated substrate using coupled-dipole method

The intensity of light scattered by a submicron particle on a film-coated semiconductor substrate is calculated as a function of the thickness of the film using the coupled-dipole method. The result of calculation reproduces the experimentally observed features, i.e., the oscillatory dependence of the scattering intensity on the thickness and the enhancement of the scattering intensity for very thin films. The enhancement is reproduced only when the dipole-dipole interaction between the particle and the substrate is included in the calculation. Using the method we propose, the scattering intensity can be calculated for an arbitrary size and shape of particle on an arbitrary thickness of film.     

Simulation of backward light waves generated in isotropic optical waveguides

The existing coherent light sources are nonuniformly distributed by frequency in the optical range. Thus, work toward the development of tunable lasers operating in the middle IR range has long been underway. Nevertheless, the region 4–8 μm has been poorly mastered, and more longwave lasers have too narrow frequency tuning ranges. One way of solving these problems is to harness the effect of parametric light generation whose special case is parametric generation of backward light waves in nonlinear optical media, which is the subject of the present work. __________ Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 5, pp. 59–62, May, 2007.     

Hexagonal nanostructures generated by light masks for neutral atoms

52 Cr, different patterns can be generated. Possible applications using the inherent properties of atom lithography, e.g. the fabrication of photonic bandgap material, are discussed. Received: 10 March 1997/Revised version: 12 May 1997     

光源角度对金属表面图像边缘的影响分析

在机器视觉的图像处理中影响图像优劣的因素有很多,其中光源照射角度是主要因素之一.为了得到更好的图像数据,对视觉系统中光源照射最佳角度进行了仿真分析与实验研究,实验中采用单一变量法,只改变光源照射角度,通过理论计算、模拟仿真和实验验证相结合,得到了最佳的光源照射角度.结合Sobel算法检验在最佳角度下和其他角度下的图像边...     

空气源热泵蒸发器结霜过程数值模拟

建立了一个空气源热泵蒸发器结霜过程的动态分布参数模型,该模型考虑了翅片温度的不均匀分布、水蒸气在霜层中的扩散以及霜层参数动态变化等影响因素。理论计算结果与实验数据吻合较好。与常规模型相比,该模型对翅片表面霜层厚度的预测精度有很大程度提高,此研究为进一步完善多排翅片管式换热器结霜模型奠定了良好基础。     

A spherical-wave source based on a probe for a near-field microscope

A new type of a spherical-wave source for precise interferometry based on a fiber probe for a nearfield microscope is proposed. Data on distortions of generated wavefronts are reported. For the optical numerical aperture NA = 0.24, the root-mean-square distortions do not exceed λ/2000.