Carnegie Mellon University

Data Storage Systems Center

College of Engineering

2025 DSSC Spring Technical Review

March 4, 2025
Carnegie Mellon University, Silicon Valley
NASA Ames Research Park Bldg. 23, Moffet Field, CA 94035

The DSSC Technical Review at Carnegie Mellon University is an opportunity for center members, invited guests, and DSSC personnel to be brought up-to-date on current DSSC research progress through oral presentations and poster sessions that highlight the center's project areas. 

Agenda

Tuesday, March 4, 2025
All sessions will be held at Carnegie Mellon University, Silicon Valley Campus
8:00-9:00 PST Breakfast
9:00-9:30 PST
12:00-12:30 EST
State of the DSSC    
Jimmy Zhu
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9:40-10:00 PST 
12:40-1:00 EST
Substrate dependence of granular FePt-hBN media microstructure for heat-assisted magnetic recording
Julia Chang
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10:00 - 10:20 PST 
1:00 - 1:20 EST
Sputtered h-BN as a thermally conductive dielectric for 3-D chip cooling
Brandon Reese
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10:20-10:50 PST
Break
10:50-11:05 PST 
1:50-2:05 EST
Dynamic Exchange in L10 FePt Grains and Impact to Media Performance
Jimmy Zhu
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11:05-11:20 PST
2:05-2:20 EST
On-chip Fine-tuning CNN Data Detector for Hard Disk Drive
Cheng-De (Jerry) Lin
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11:20-11:35 PST
2:20-2:35 EST
Noval Read Head Design Analysis
Jimmy Zhu
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11:35-12:00 PST
2:35-3:00 EST
AlN Based Photonics for HAMR Heads
James Bain
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12:00-12:45 PST
Lunch
12:45-1:15 PST
3:45-4:15 EST
Polarization Sensitive Quantum Sensing of Spin Wave
Enbo Zhang
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1:15-1:45 PST
4:15-4:45 EST
Compute in Memory Updates
James Bain
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1:45-2:00 PST    

Wrap-up and Q&A