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Research Projects

Research efforts within the DSSC encompass a variety of activities related to Information Storage Systems. Working in close collaboration with our industrial affiliates, we are developing the fundamental underpinnings of information storage technologies as well as helping to create new technologies for information storage.

Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording: NFT
Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording: Media
Machine Learning for Hard Disc Drives
Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording
Nonvolatile Memory Technology & Systems
Future Memory Systems

Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording: NFT
	Title	People
1	HAMR Holistic Modeling	James A. Bain Jimmy Zhu
2	Resonant Optical Coupling of NFT	Wenyi Zhang James A. Bain
3	Guiding Optical Wave w/ SAW and Voltage	Benjamin Friedman James A. Bain
4	Edge Roughness in Optical Waveguide	Wenyi Zhang James A. Bain
5	Composite NFT Material Development	Tianxiang Du David Laughlin Jimmy Zhu
Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording: Media
	Title	People
6	HAMR Media: How to Grow Tall FePt-L1₀ Grains	Chengchao Xu David Laughlin Jimmy Zhu
7	Template Growth for Uniform Grain Size Distribution	Chengchao Xu David Laughlin Jimmy Zhu
8	HAMR Media on Glass Substrates	Varaprasad Bollapragada Chengchao Xu David Laughlin Jimmy Zhu
9	Engineering Novel HAMR Media via Modeling	Yu Yan Jimmy Zhu
Machine Learning for Hard Disk Drives
	Title	People
10	Machine Learning for HDD Data Detection	Yuwei Qin Jimmy Zhu
11	ML Channel ASIC Chip Tape Out	Yuwei Qin Jimmy Zhu
12	Data Recovery w/ Wide Reader on BPM using ML	Tong Mo David Laughlin Jimmy Zhu
13	Ultimate ADC Gain in TDMR with Machine Learning	Jimmy Zhu
14	ML Channel for Nonlinear Read Back in HDD	Rozana Hussin Jimmy Zhu
Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording
	Title	People
15	Impact of STO Field Frequency and Amplitude	Jimmy Zhu
16	STO with SAF Spin Polarization Layer	Jimmy Zhu
17	Granular FePt-L1₀Media for PMR and MAMR	Varaprasad Bollapragada David Laughlin Jimmy Zhu
18	Buried Servo for Future Tape Storage	Jimmy Zhu James A. Bain
Nonvolatile Memory Technology and Systems
	Title	People
19	Survey of Present Nonvolatile Memory Technologies	Christopher Porco Katherine Lu Grace Xiao Jason Chen Jimmy Zhu
20	Reducing Threshold Voltage of RRAM	Oscar Shen Edward Zou James A. Bain
21	Reducing Switching Variability in PCM Device	Yiqi Yu Marek Skowronski
22	In-Memory Computing for RRAM Array	Minh Sy Quang Truong Saugata Ghose Rick Carley
23	High Density on Chip Magnetic Memory	Shreyes Nallan Vincent Sokalski Jimmy Zhu
24	On-Chip Magnetic Sensor for HW Security	Bo-Yuan Yang Jimmy Zhu
Future Memory Systems
	Title	People
25	Room Temperature Quantum Data Storage	Enbo Zhang Jimmy Zhu

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