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...     

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.     

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.     

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 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.     

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.     

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     

Nanostructures fabricated on metal surfaces assisted by laser with optical near-field effects

Nanostructures on metal film surfaces have been written directly using a pulsed ultraviolet laser. The optical near-field effects of the laser were investigated. Spherical silica particles (500–1000 nm in diameter) were placed on metal films. After laser illumination with a single laser shot, nanoholes were obtained at the original position of the particles. The mechanism for the formation of the nanostructure patterns was investigated and found to be the near-field optical resonance effect induced by the particles on the surface. The size of the nanohole was studied as a function of laser fluence and silica particle size. The experimental results show a good agreement with those of the relevant theoretical calculations of the near-field light intensity distribution. The method of particle-enhanced laser irradiation allows the study of field enhancement effects as well as its potentialapplications for nanolithography. Received: 10 December 2002 / Accepted: 20 January 2003 / Published online: 28 May 2003 RID="*" ID="*"Corresponding author. Fax: +65-777/1349, E-mail: HUANG_Sumei@dsi.a-star.edu.sg     

VUV-spectroscopy of the plasma light emission generated by the pulsed arc cluster ion source (PACIS)

A pinhole grid spectrometer is used to measure the light emission from the plasma of the pulsed arc cluster ion source (PACIS). Spectra of various metals and carbon have been measured between 20 and 100 nm. In the case of carbon the average electron temperature is estimated to about 0.69 eV. Higher temperatures up to 0.79 eV are measured when inserting seeding gas which flushes the discharge volume with approx. one atmosphere of helium. An operation under this source conditions leads to the generation of an intense charged cluster beam. The application of the source as a bright light source in the VUV region is discussed. Received: 26 February 1998 / Revised: 12 May 1998 / Accepted: 14 May 1998     

A beamline for time resolved photoelectron microscopy on magnetic materials at the Swiss light source

We describe the “Surface/Interface: Microscopy” beamline currently under construction at the Paul Scherrer Institut. This beamline will use a photoemission electron microscope to study the electronic and magnetic structure of materials. Its photon energy range will be 94–2000 eV.

To allow time resolved measurements with millisecond resolution we use a new scheme allowing to switch the photon helicity optically without perturbing the electron orbit. Two identical elliptical insertion devices are placed behind each other in the same straight section. They can produce light with opposing helicities. These two sources are separated horizontally by introducing a small static parallel offset in the electron orbit. Switching between the two rays of opposite helicities is done mechanically at the horizontal focus behind the monochromator. The two sources are brought to overlap on the sample by slightly defocussing the refocussing mirror.

A commercial microscope (Δx20 nm resolution) is adapted to the synchrotron by various upgrades. These include a software combining microscope and beamline control, a computer controlled mechanical alignment system, a separate sample preparation chamber, and sample cooling using liquid nitrogen. The beamline will be available for user operation in 2002.     

The influence of substrate geometry on the emission properties of a liquid metal ion source

The effect of needle radius, cone angle and shaft diameter on the threshold voltage and angular intensity — total current relationships for a Ga liquid-metal ion source (LMIS) was investigated. The variation of threshold voltage with needle geometry could be described in terms of the Taylor theory of liquid cone formation by electrostatic fields. The beam energy spread was mainly a function of total source current and was not a sensitive function of emitter geometry. Source angular intensity at a constant total current increased linearly with threshold voltage when the latter was altered due to source geometry.     

Novel storage and tunable light source generated by a soliton pulse in a micro ring resonator system

We propose a novel system of a dense wavelength division operation using the nonlinear micro ring resonators system that can be used to generate the broad output light spectra, whereas the significant increasing in channel capacity is obtained. A system consists of two micro and a nano ring resonators incorporating an add/drop filter that can be integrated into a single system. The large bandwidth signal is generated by using a soliton pulse propagating within a Kerr type nonlinear medium. The obtained results have shown the potential of using such a system for broadband light source generation, amplification, storage and regeneration, whereas the amplified signals can be stored within a nano-waveguide, which is allowed to form the regeneration of the broad light spectra after amplification. The advantage is that the specific wavelength of the broadband source, for instance, 1.50 μm can provide the super dense wavelength division multiplexing channels, whereas the increasing in channel capacity of 10,000 times is achieved.     

Parametric method for retrieval of the radiation pattern of an elongated source by near-field measurements

We propose a method for determining the radiation pattern of an elongated source by near-field pressure measurements. The method is based on parameterization of the transducer by a set of spherical sources. The parameters (spherical-harmonic amplitudes determined by solving the inverse problem) are used to calculate the transducer radiation pattern. The main attention is paid to the case where the transducer has an elongated shape. The results of numerical simulations are reported.     

Beam conditions for radiation generated by an electromagnetic Gaussian Schell-model source

It was shown recently that the basic properties of a fluctuating electromagnetic beam can be derived from knowledge of a 2 x 2 cross-spectral density matrix of the electric field in the source plane. However, not every such matrix represents a source that will generate a beamlike field. We derive conditions that the matrix must satisfy for the source to generate an electromagnetic Gaussian Schell-model beam.     

The effect of GaAs(001) substrate roughness on the magnetic properties of epitaxial Fe films

The effect of GaAs(001) surface roughness on the magnetic properties of MBE-grown Fe films having a thickness t in the interval from 12 to 140 Å is investigated by the ferromagnetic resonance method. The films were deposited at room temperature with rates of 9 and 3 Å/min. For films grown on substrates with the rms deviation of the roughness σ≈10 and 30 Å, the spectrum is essentially dependent on the relationship between t and σ. At t≤σ and t≥3σ, a single absorption line is observed, whereas at σ≤t≤3σ, two absorption lines are present. These features of the spectra are related to the island growth of the films and the influence of roughness on island coalescence.