Carnegie Mellon University

Data Storage Systems Center

College of Engineering

Chengchao Xu

Chengchao Xu

PhD Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Address 5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Bio

Chengchao Xu is a second-year Ph.D. student in the DSSC at ECE department, advised by Prof. Jimmy Zhu and Prof. David Laughlin. He holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Tongji University and an M.S. in Materials Science from Carnegie Mellon University.

For more information, please check out his LinkedIn page.

Research

Chengchao’s research focuses on the HAMR(heat-assisted magnetic recording) media material, including the fabrication method for granular FePt-L10 media, the atomistic modeling of thin film growth and advanced TEM techniques including atomic resolution STEM analysis. He's also interested in the development of novel directed self-assembly patterning methods using colloidal nanoparticles.

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Talks

Fabrication of 16nm-thick granular L10 FePt-hBn film (DSSC 2023 Spring Technical Review)  vid-icon.gif
Biased sputtering of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) in FePt-BN granular film (DSSC 2022 Winter Technical Review)  vid-icon.gif
FePt HAMR Media w/ h-BN Grain Boundary Materials (DSSC 2022 West Coast Technical Review)  vid-icon.gif
Fabrication of Tall Grain HAMR Media (DSSC 2021 Fall Technical Review) download PDF vid-icon.gif

Related Projects

HAMR Media: How to Grow Tall FePt-L10 Grains

Template Growth for Uniform Grain Size Distribution

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