US Patent Issued to Seagate Technology on April 14 for "P-metal electrical contact of laser diode for heat-assisted magnetic recording, and related apparatuses, data storage devices, systems, and methods" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,109, issued on April 14, was assigned to Seagate Technology LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"P-metal electrical contact of laser diode for heat-assisted magnetic recording, and related apparatuses, data storage devices, systems, and methods" was invented by Adam Andrzej Lapicki (Londonderry, Great Britain) and Reyad Mehfuz (Londonderry, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Laser diode having a p-metal electrical contact that includes a metal adhesion layer disposed on the p-type region of the semiconductor laser structure, and a metal bi-layer disposed on the metal adhesion layer. The metal bi-layer includes a first metal layer dispo...