TMRC 2016│Schedule at a glance Wed. August 17 8:00 AM Coffee/Pastries On-site registration 8:50 AM: Opening Address R Session A

HAMR-I

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM Coffee Break 10:30AM - 10:45AM

Thu. August 18 8:00 AM Coffee/Pastries On-site registration

Session C HAMR-HDI

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Coffee Break 10:30AM - 10:45AM

Session D

Fri. August 19 7:30 AM Coffee/Pastries On-site registration

Session F MAMR, BPMR, Advanced Readers 8:30 AM - 11:45 AM Coffee Break 10:00 AM - 10:15AM

MRAM-I

10:45 AM - 11:45 AM

Lunch 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM

Lunch 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM

Lunch 11:45 AM – 1:15 PM

Session B

Session E MRAM-II

PMR and TDMR

1:15 PM - 4:30 PM Coffee Break 2:45 - 3:00

1:15 PM - 4:30 PM Coffee Break 2:45 - 3:00

1:15 PM - 5:00 PM Coffee Break 2:45 - 3:00

Poster session H

Poster session I

HAMR-II

Invited Aug. 17, 18 & Contributed

Bierstube

4:45 PM – 6:30 PM

Banquet 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM Keynote Speech 7:30 PM - 8:15 PM

Invited Aug. 18, 19 & Contributed

Bierstube

4:45 PM - 6:30 PM

Session G

Closing Remarks 5:00 PM

TMRC 2016 INVITED PRESENTATIONS Wednesday AM, August 17th

Wednesday PM, August 17th

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM Session A: HAMR-I Chair: Person’s name – Affiliation

1:15 PM - 4:30 PM Session B: HAMR-II Chair: Person’s name – Affiliation

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9:00 AM: High Track Pitch Capability For HAMR Recording, Chris REA, Pradeep SUBEDI, Hua ZHOU, Douglas SAUNDERS, Michael CORDLE, Pu-Ling LU, Peter J CZOSCHKE, Stephanie HERNANDEZ, Minjie MA, Radek LOPUSNIK, Yingguo PENG, Jan-Ulrich THIELE, Alexander Q WU, Ganping JU, Tim RAUSCH, Mike SEIGLER, Edward GAGE, Seagate Technology, USA. 9:30 AM: Areal Density Impact Of Transition Curvature In Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording, Jian-Gang (Jimmy) ZHU, Hai LI, Carnegie Mellon University, USA. 10:00 AM: Imaging of the Thermal Spot in Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording Robert EATON, Andreas MOSER, Daniel WOLF, Western Digital, USA.

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1:15 PM: Thermal Gradient Measurements For Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording: Method and Applications, Douglas SAUNDERS, Julius HOHLFELD, X u a n Z H E N G , Tim RAUSCH, Chris REA, Seagate Technology, USA.

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1:45 PM: Optimizing the Optical and Thermal Design of Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording Media, Pierre-Olivier JUBERT, Michael K. GROBIS, HGST, a Western Digital Company, USA.

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2:15 PM: NFT Material Q: Assumptions and Reality, M. STAFFARONI, T. MALETZKY, TDK Headway Technologies, USA. 2:45 - 3:00 PM: Break

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3:00 PM: Designs and Requirements for Heat Assisted Recording for 10Tb/in2, Dieter SUESS, C. VOGLER, University of Vienna.

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3:30 PM: Heated Dot Magnetic Recording Media – The Ultimate Recording Density, David S. KUO1, Kim Y. LEE1, Xiaomin YANG1, Shuaigang XIAO1, Yautzong HSU1, Zhaoning YU1, Michael FELDBAUM1, Tim KLEMMER1, Yukiko KUBOTA1, Jan-Ulrich THIELE1, Philip STEINER1, Koichi WAGO1, Stefano DALLORTO2,3, and Deirdre OLYNICK2, 1) Seagate Media Research, Fremont, California, USA, 2) Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, California, USA, 3) Oxford Instruments, Concord, Massachusetts, USA.

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4:00 PM: FePt Damping: Physical Origins and Recording Impact on HAMR and STTRAM, Randall H. VICTORA, Tao QU, University of Minnesota, USA.

10:30 - 10:45 AM: Break 4.

10:45 AM: Using Ensemble Waveform Signalto-Noise Analysis to Compare Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording Characteristics of Modeled and Experimental Signal, Stephanie HERNANDEZ, Pu-Ling LU, Pavol KRIVOSIK, PinWei HUANG, Walter EPPLER, Tim RAUSCH and Edward GAGE, Seagate Technology, USA.

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11:15 AM: Writing Process Modelling and Identification For Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording, Kun MA1,2, Wai Ee WONG2, Jianyi WANG2, Guoxiao GUO2, and Youyi WANG1, 1) Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2) Western Digital, USA.

TMRC 2016 INVITED PRESENTATIONS Thursday AM, August 18th

Thursday PM, August 18th

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Session C: HAMR-HDI Chair: Person’s name – Affiliation

1:15 PM - 4:30 PM Session E: MRAM-II Chair: Person’s name – Affiliation

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9:00 AM: Write-Induced Head Contamination In HAMR, James D. KIELY, Paul M. JONES, Y. YANG, John L. BRAND, Manuel ANAYA-DUFRESNE, Patrick C. FLETCHER, Florin ZAVALICHE, Yvete TOIVOLA, John C. DUDA, Michael T. JOHNSON, Sunita GANGOPADHYAY, Seagate Technology, USA.

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9:30 AM: Measurement Of Nanoscale HDI Heat Transfer Using a PMR Head With Contact Sensor, Yuan MA and David B. BOGY, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, USA.

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10:00 AM: Graphene Coating For HeatAssisted Magnetic Recording, Neeraj DWIVEDI1, Anna K. OTT2, Reuben J. YEO1, Chunmeng DOU2, Ugo SASSI2, Domenico DE FAZIO2, A. C. FERRARI2 and C. S. BHATIA1, 1) National University of Singapore, 2) Cambridge University, UK.

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1:15 PM: Spin Torque MRAM, Daniel C. WORLEDGE, Guohan HU, Junghyuk LEE, Janusz J. NOWAK, Jonathan Z. SUN, Anthony ANNUNZIATA, Stephen BROWN, Younghyun KIM, Chandrasekharan KOTHANDARAMAN, Gen LAUER, Nathan MARCHACK, Eugene J. O’SULLIVAN, Jeong-Heon PARK, Mark REUTER, Ray P. ROBERTAZZI, Philip L. TROUILLOUD, and Yu ZHU, IBM-Samsung MRAM Alliance, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA.

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1:45PM: Spin Orbit Torque Switching Of CoFeB Magnetic Free Layers With Pt and Ta Heavy Metals For SOT MRAM Development, Goran MIHAJLOVIĆ, Oleksandr MOSENDZ, Young-Suk CHOI, Lei WAN, Patrick BRAGANCA, Neil SMITH and Jordan KATINE, HGST, A Western Digital Company, USA.

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2:15PM: Mag-Flip Spin Torque Oscillator Using Highly Spin Polarized Heusler Alloy Spin Injection Layer For Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording, S. BOSU, H. SEPEHERI-AMIN, Y. SAKURABA, S. KASAI, M. HAYASHI, and K. HON, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan.

10:30 - 10:45 AM: Break

10:45 AM - 11:45 AM Session D: MRAM-I Chair: Person’s name – Affiliation 1.

10:45 AM: Technical Considerations For Commercial MRAM Products, J.M. SLAUGHTER, R. WHIG, H.-J. CHIA, F.B. MANCOFF, S. IKEGAWA, S. AGGARWAL, M. DEHERRERA, S. DESHPANDE, J. JANESKY, M. LIN, D. HOUSSAMEDDINE, K. NAGEL, J.J. SUN, Everspin Technologies, Arizona, USA.

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11:15 AM: Dynamical Magnetoelectric Switching Of Perpendicular Exchange Bias, Yu SHIRATSUCHI1, Nguyen Thi Van ANH1, Ryoichi NAKATANI1, Yoshinori KOTANI2 and Tetsuya NAKAMURA2, 1) Osaka Univ., Osaka, Japan 2) JASRI/SPring-8, Hyogo, Japan.

2:45 - 3:00 PM: Break 4.

3:00PM: Spin Orbit Engineering For Low Power Computing, K. H. CAO1, 2, S. Z. PENG1, 2, L. SU1, 2, M. X. WANG1, 2, X. X. ZHAO1, 2, J. Q. ZHOU1, 2, X. Y. LIN1, 2, Z. H. WANG1, 2, W. S. ZHAO1, 2, 1) Fert Beijing Institute, Beihang University, Beijing, P.R. China, 2) School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, P.R. China.

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3:30PM: Temperature Dependence Of Critical Device Parameters In 1 Gbit Perpendicular Magnetic Tunnel Junction Arrays For STTMRAM, C. PARK1, J.J. KAN1, C. CHING2, J. AHN2, L. XUE2, R. WANG2, A. KONTOS2, S. LIANG2, M. BANGAR2, H.CHEN2, S. HASSAN2, S. KIM1, M. PAKALA2, and S. H. KANG1, 1) Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., San Diego, California 92121, USA, 2) Silicon Systems Group, Applied Materials, Inc., Sunnyvale, California, USA.

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4:00PM: Antiferromagnetic Spintronics, X. MARTI1,, I. FINA2 1) Institute of Physics ASCR, Czech Republic., 2) Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain.

TMRC 2016 INVITED PRESENTATIONS Friday AM, August 19th

Friday PM, August 19th

8:30 AM - 11:45 AM Session F: BPMR, MAMR and Advanced Readers Chair: Person’s name – Affiliation

1:15 PM - 5:00 PM Session G: BPMR and TDMR Chair: Person’s name – Affiliation

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1:15 PM: Characterization of Write Signal Efficiency Utilizing Write Current Dynamic Wave-Shaping, John T. CONTRERAS, Jonas GOODE, Xinzhi XING, Jianping CHEN, Western Digital Corporation, San Jose, CA, USA.

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1:45 PM: Spatially-Coupled Codes For Advanced Magnetic Recording, Lara DOLECEK, Homa ESFAHANIZADEH1, and Ahmed HAREEDY1, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA.

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2:15 PM: Exploring TDMR Gain Constraints, James ALEXANDER, Tue NGO, Shafa DAHANDEH, Western Digital, USA.

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8:30 AM: New Block Copolymers Enable 5nm BPM Patterning, GRANT WILLSON1, AUSTIN LANE1, MICHAEL MAHER1, GREGORY BLACHUT1, YUSUKE ASANO1, YASUNOBU SOMEYA1, STEPHEN SIRARD2 and XIAOMIN YANG3, 1) The Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX, USA, 2) Lam Research, Fremont, CA, USA, 3) Seagate Technology, Fremont, CA, USA USA 9:00 AM: High Recording Performance Of Bit-Patterned Media With Two-Layer Inclined Anisotropy ECC Dots, Naoki HONDA1, Kiyoshi YAMAKAWA2, 1) Tohoku Institute of Technology, Sendai, Japan, 2) Akita Industrial Technology Center, Akita, Japan. 9:30 AM: Micromagnetic Model Analysis Of Spin-Transfer Torque Oscillator and Write Heads For Microwave-Assisted Magnetic Recording, Yasushi KANAI1, Kazuetsu YOSHIDA2, Simon GREAVES3 and Hiroaki MURAOKA3, 1) Niigata Institute of Technology, Kashiwazaki, Japan, 2) Kogakuin University, Tokyo, Japan, 3) Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.

2:45 - 3:00 PM: Break 4.

3:00 PM: Joint Timing Recovery And Signal Detection For Two-Dimensional Magnetic Recording, Chaitanya Kumar MATCHA and Shayan Garani SRINIVASA, Department of Electronics Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, India.

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3:30PM: Two-Dimensional Modulation Codes Using Polar Coding Techniques, Hidetoshi SAITO, Kogakuin University, Tokyo, Japan.

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4:00 PM: High Density Turbo TDMR Detection With Local Area Influence Probabilistic Model, Xueliang SUN1, Krishnamoorthy SIVAKUMAR1, Benjamin J. BELZER1, and Roger WOOD2, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA, HGST, San Jose, CA, USA.

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4:30 PM: Two-Dimensional Equalization and Detection For Two Tracks In Array-Reader Based Magnetic Recording, Jun YAO1, Euiseok HWANG2, B. V. K. Vijaya KUMAR3, and George MATHEW1, 1) Broadcom Ltd., San Jose, CA, USA, 2) Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea, 3) Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

10:00 - 10:15 AM: Break 4.

10:15 AM: Multiple Layer Microwave-Assisted Magnetic Recording, Simon GREAVES1, Yasushi KANAI2, and Hiroaki MURAOKA1 , 1) RIEC, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, 2) IEE, Niigata Institute of Technology, Kashiwazaki, Japan.

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10:45 AM: High Output CPP-GMR Using New Spacer Materials With Half-Metallic Heusler Electrodes, Y. SAKURABA, J.W. JUNG, S. LI, Y. DU, J. CHEN, T.T. SASAKI, Y. MIURA, T. M. NAKATANI, T. FURUBAYASHI, Y.K. TAKAHASHI, and K. HONO, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan.

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11:15 AM: Design Study Of High Resolution And High Reliability TMR Reader With Recessed Pin Layer Structure, Satoshi MIURA, Kenzo MAKINO, Takahiko MACHITA, Naomichi DEGAWA, Takumi UESUGI and Takeo KAGAMI, TDK Corporation, Nagano, Japan.



Poster Session H Wednesday August 17th, 2016, 4:45 – 6:30 PM Poster session H features all invited papers from oral sessions A, B, C and D, as well as the contributed posters below H1) Definition Of An Areal Density Metric For Magnetic Recording Systems Steven D. GRANZ1, Tim RAUSCH1, Richard BROCKIE2, Roger WOOD2, Gerardo BERTERO2, and Edward C. GAGE1, 1) Seagate Technology, Shakopee, Minnesota, USA, 2) Western Digital Corporation, San Jose, California, USA H2) 3D Product Codes For Magnetic Tape Recording Roy D. CIDECIYAN, Simeon FURRER, and Mark A. LANTZ, IBM Research – Zurich, 8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland H3) Signal Processing And Coding System For TDMR Data From Grain Flipping Probability Model Morteza MEHRNOUSH1, Krishnamoorthy SIVAKUMAR1, Benjamin J. BELZER1, Sari Shafidah SHAFI'EE2, Kheong Sann CHAN2, 1Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA, 2 Data Storage Institute, Singapore, 117608 H4) Interface Modification To Improve The Friction And Wear Resistance Of Ultrathin Tape Head Overcoats Reuben J. YEO, Neeraj DWIVEDI and C. S. BHATIA, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Poster Session I Thursday August 18th, 2016, 4:45 – 6:30 PM Poster session I features all invited papers from oral sessions E, F, and G, as well as the contributed posters listed below.

I1) Spin Orbit Engineering For Low Power Computing, K. H. CAO1, 2, S. Z. PENG1, 2, L. SU1, 2, M. X. WANG1, 2, X. X. ZHAO1, 2, J. Q. ZHOU1, 2, X. Y. LIN1, 2, Z. H. WANG1, 2, W. S. ZHAO1, 2 1) Fert Beijing Institute, Beihang University, 100191, Beijing, P.R. China, 2) School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang University, 100191, Beijing, P.R. China I2) Ion Beam Patterning Of High Density STT-Ram Devices, Vincent IP1, Shuogang HUANG2, Santino D. CARNEVALE1, Ivan L. BERRY2, Katrina ROOK1, Thorsten B. LILL2, Ajit P. PARANJPE3 and Frank CERIO1, 1) Veeco Instruments, Plainview, NY, USA, 2) Lam Research Corporation, Fremont, CA, USA, 3) Veeco Instruments, Somerset, NJ, USA I3) Design Of Cooling NFT System Using SPP Waveguide For HAMR Y. HAYASHI, K. TAMURA, Y. ASHIZAWA, S. OHNUKI, and K. NAKAGAWA, Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan I4) Electric Switching Of Magnetization Using Magnetoelectric Cr2O3 Film T. NOZAKI, M. AL-MAHDAWI, S. P. PATI, S. YE, Y. SHIOKAWA, and M. SAHASHI, Department of Electronic Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-0845, Japan I5) Effect Of MgO Oxidation Level On Spin-Orbit Torque Magnetization Switching Of CoFeF/MgO Nanodots Noriyuki SATO, Robert M. WHITE and Shan X. WANG, Stanford University, Stanford, USA