Seagate Technology Incorporated

Nanometronix LLC

Antanas Daugela

Jon David Trantham

Neal Frank Gunderson

Andrew Robert Motzko

Zine Eddine Boutaghou

Jason Wayne Riddering

John Stuart Wright

Scott Edward Ryun

Reed David Hanson

Srinivas Tadepalli

Stefan Andrei Ionescu

Subra Nagarajan

Rick Pfahl Freeman

Erik Jon Lindquist

Ricardo P Freeman

Erick J Lindquist

A method of creating and characterizing a representative image or signal transform of the surface of an object from acoustic emissions or ultrasonic signals of a multimode ultrasonic probe tip and transducer integrated into a micro tool, such as a nano indenter or a nano indenter interfaced with a Scanning Probe Microscope (SPM). The representative image or renderings may be utilized to predict mechanical properties or characteristics of the sample, including topography, fracture patterns, indents and artifacts. The tip component is configured to operate at multi-resonant frequencies providing sub-nanometer vertical resolution. The tip component may be quasi- statistically calibrated and deep learning iterative image comparison and characterization may be utilized to derive mechanical properties of a sample.

Characterization of nanoindented and scratch induced accoustic events

A method of creating and characterizing a representative image of the surface of an object from acoustic emissions of a multimode ultrasonic probe tip and transducer integrated into a micro tool, such as a nano indenter or a nano indenter interfaced with a Scanning Probe Microscope (SPM). The representative image may be utilized to predict mechanical properties or characteristics of the sample, including topography, fracture patterns, indents and artifacts. The tip component is configured to operate at multi-resonant frequencies providing sub-nanometer vertical resolution. The tip component may be quasi-statistically calibrated and deep learning iterative image comparison and characterization may be utilized to derive mechanical properties of a sample.

Characterization of nanoindentation induced acoustic events

A storage device disclosed herein includes a transducer head with a proximity sensor that generates head-disc proximity signals, a digitizer configured to convert the analog proximity signals from the proximity sensor to digitized sample data, a discrete wavelet transformation (DWT) module configured to analyze the digitized sample data by performing an enhanced DWT on the digitized sample data to generate DWT coefficients, and a modal filter configured to determine dominant head-disc interference (HDI) modes for a transducer head by analyzing the DWT coefficients.

Head to media interface monitoring

An apparatus includes an actuator assembly, a dampening assembly coupled to the actuator assembly, and a vibration sensor assembly coupled to the dampening assembly and coupled to the actuator assembly by way of the dampening assembly. A method includes attaching a dampening assembly to an actuator assembly and attaching a vibration sensor assembly to the dampening assembly. The dampening assembly is positioned between the vibration sensor assembly and the actuator assembly.

Methods and devices for detecting shock events

A multimode ultrasonic probe tip and transducer integrated into a micro tool, such as a nano indenter or a nano indenter interfaced with a Scanning Probe Microscope (SPM) is described. The tip component may be utilized to determine mechanical properties or characteristics of a sample, including for example, complex elastic modulus, hardness, friction coefficient, and strain and stress at nanometer scales and high frequencies. The tip component is configured to operate at multi-resonant frequencies providing sub-nanometer vertical resolution. The tip component may be quasi-statistically calibrated and contact mechanics constitutive equations may be utilized to derive mechanical properties of a sample. Contact mechanical impedance and acoustic impedance may also be compared.

Nanoindenter ultrasonic probe tip and force control

Nanoindenter ultrasonic probe tip

In one implementation, a method and apparatus is provided for determining an active fly height setting for a transducer head from samples collected from a proximity sensor during less than a single revolution of a disc. Implementations of the method and system use adaptive discrete wavelet transform parameters generated from the collected samples to determine an active fly height setting for a transducer head.

Head to media proximity detection

Apparatus and method for head-disc interface (HDI) modal response monitoring. A sensing element disposed on a rigid actuator arm is mechanically impedance matched to a head-disc interface (HDI) supported by the actuator arm to resonate at a predetermined frequency corresponding to at least one disturbance associated with the HDI.

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Bloomington, MN, United States of America

Antanas Daugela