Tianxiang Du

PhD Student, Materials Science and Engineering

Bio

Tianxiang’s research interests lie in the capacitive Near Field Transducer design in Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording. He is currently doing research on durable plasmonic nanostructure to increase the thermal stability of NFT. He applies the COMSOL Multiphysics package to simulate the optical performance of the novel NFT structure with a fundamental understanding in the NFT resonance behavior. Some nanofabrication skills and material characterization techniques are used to fabricate and characterize the plasmonic nanostructures. 

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Research

Tianxiang’s research interests lie in the Near Field Transducer material design in Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording. He is currently doing research on durable plasmonic material design to increase the thermal stability of NFT. Some material characterization techniques such as XRD and TEM are used to characterize the property of plasmonic thin films. Experiment results are combined with COMSOL simulation results to better study the optical property of fabricated thin films.

Publications

Tianxiang Du, B.S.D.C.S. Varaprasad, Zhitao Guo, Andrew J. Gellman, Jian-Gang Zhu, David E. Laughlin, TEMbased study of oxidation of FeCo high moment alloy at elevated temperatures, J. Magn. Magn. Mater., 539 (2021), Article 168347, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmmm.2021.168347