US Patent Issued to Headway Technologies on Oct. 20 for "Hybrid plasmonic bottom layer for increased near field transducer reliability" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,647, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Headway Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Hybrid plasmonic bottom layer for increased near field transducer reliability" was invented by Weihao Xu (San Jose, Calif.), Tobias Maletzky (San Jose, Calif.), Shigeki Tanemura (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ken Fujii (San Jose, Calif.) and Weisheng Hu (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present embodiments relate to a near field transducer for thermally-assisted magnetic recording (TAMR) with a hybrid plasmonic bottom layer. In a first example embodiment, a thermally-assisted magnetic recording (TAMR) write head is provided. The TAMR write ...