Spring 2009 Technical Review
March 24
Carnegie Mellon University
The DSSC Technical Review, held twice a year, is an opportunity for Center Members, invited guests, and DSSC personnel to be brought up-to-date on the current research progress of the DSSC through oral presentations and poster sessions that highlight the project areas of the Center.
Agenda
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| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| Breakfast | |
| 7:30–8:30 a.m. |
Breakfast |
| Opening Session | |
| 8:30–8:35 |
Welcome |
| 8:35–9:00 |
State of DSSC |
| Session 1: Heads and Media | |
| 9:00–9:15 |
DSSC Thin Film Media Research |
| 9:15–9:30 |
Applications of Composite Thin Films to Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Media |
| 9:30–9:45 |
Intergranular Exchange Coupling in PMR Media |
| 9:45–10:00 |
Near Field Devices for Heat Assisted Recording |
| 10:00–10:15 |
Near Field HAMR Tester |
| Morning Break | |
| 10:15–10:45 |
Break and Posters |
| Session 2: Memory, Channels, Mechanics, Servos and Tribology | |
| 10:45–11:00 |
MAMR: Promises and Challenges |
| 11:00–11:15 |
DSSC Channels Research Overview With Focus on a New Reduced-Complexity Soft Decision Decoding Method for Reed-Solomon Codes |
| 11:15–11:30 |
Investigation of LDPC Codes in Bit-Patterned Media With Written-In Errors |
| 11:30–11:45 |
Actuator PES Generation, Timing Recovery, and Multi Track Read on Patterned Media |
| 11:45–12:00 p.m. |
Switching Magnetic and Phase Change Junctions With Probes |
| Featured Speaker | |
| 12:00–12:15 |
President Cohon addresses the group |
| Lunch and Poster Session | |
| 12:15–2:15 |
General lunch |
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Poster session |
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| Afternoon Meetings | |
| 2:15–3:45 |
Advisory Board |
| 3:45–4:45 |
Feedback session with faculty |
| Poster Session and Reception | |
| 4:45–6:15 |
Poster session |
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Reception |
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| Evening Activities | |
| 6:15–8:30 |
Dinner |
Posters
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Media | |
| Bincheng Wang | The Impact of B Additions to FePt on the A1 to L10 Phase Transformation |
| Brian Knight | Adjacent Track Aging in HAMR |
| Dhishan Kande | FePt Binary Anisotropy Media |
| En Yang | L10 Media Fabrication |
| Matthew Moneck | Methanol Etching of Magnetic Device Structures and Perpendicular Recording Media |
| Chip Hogg | RIE-Based Patterning of SiO2 Hard Masks Using Nanoparticle Arrays With 2 nm Gaps |
| Eric Evarts | Current Induced Magnetization Switching of Magnetic Tunnel Junctions Using Conductive Atomic Force Microscopy |
| Hua Yuan | Applications of Composite Thin Films to Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Media |
| Katie McNerny | Synthesis and Oxidation of Faceted FeCo Magnetic Nanoparticles |
| Nicholas Jones | Oxidation of Polycrystalline Fe70Co30 Thin Films |
| Soyoung Park | A Novel Crystalline Soft Magnetic Intermediate Layer for Perpendicular Recording Media |
| Vincent Sokalski | Experimentally Modeling the Role of Intergranular Oxides in PMR Media |
| Heads | |
| Taehee Jeong | Measuring Thermal Conductivity of Thin Films |
| Yiming Wang | Switchable STT Circular AC Field Generator for Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording |
| Eric Black | Near Field HAMR Tester |
| Mark Lin | Feasibility Study of TDMR Using Contact-Drag Tester |
| Joseph Pichon | Optical Spot Metrology for HAMR |
| Yunchuan Kong | Fabrication of Integrated HAMR Writing Heads |
| James A. Bain | Tapered Ridge Waveguide for Improved HAMR Heating |
| Servo, Mechanics and Tribology | |
| Dehee Kim | Spinning Effects on the Spreading of PFPE Films Over Carbon-Overcoated Disks |
| Pil Seung Chung | Effect of Molecular Structure on the Dynamics of Nanoscale Thin Binary Lubricant Films in Head-Disk Interface |
| Channels | |
| Sheida Nabavi | Modeling the Correlated Media Noise for Bit-Patterned Media |
| Euiseok Hwang | Measurement and Signal Processing for Two-Dimensional Magnetic Recording (TDMR) Channel |
| Seungjune Jeon | Joint Decoding of LDPC and RS Concatenation |
| Soowoong Lee | Pattern-Flipping Chase2-Type Decoder Using Error Pattern-Extracting Viterbi Algorithm |
| Yibin Ng | Investigation of LDPC Codes in Bit-Patterned Media With Written-In Errors |
| Yu Cai | Investigation on Practical LDPC Codes for Real Magnetic Recording Channel |
| Memory | |
| Chang Soo Kim | Analysis of HDD, SSD and Emerging Non-Volatile Memory Technologies |
| Mohammad Noman | Computational Platform Development for Mobile Dopant Semiconductors |
| Cheow Hin Sim | Perpendicular Spin Torque Oscillator |
| Jeong-Heon Park | Spin Torque Nano-Oscillators With Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy |
| Jingwei Liu | CMOS-MEMS Dual Probes With Sensors for Reconfiguring RF Vias |
| Katey Lo | Probe Reconfigurable Phase Change Material Switches |
| Louis Draghi | Navigation System for MEMS Probes |
| Chun Chia Tan | Phase Change Diodes |
| Eng Keong Chua | Phase Change Materials for Reconfigurable Vias |
| Jiangcheng Huang | Phase Change Magnetic Material |
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