Seagate Technology Incorporated

James Dillion Kiely

Yiao-Tee Hsia

Earl Chrzaszcz Johns

Edward Charles Gage

Paul Max Jones

Mark Ian Lutwyche

Lei Li

Wei Peng

An apparatus includes a substrate, a recording layer on the substrate, and a nanocomposite layer on the recording layer, the nanocomposite layer including a wear-resistant material and a solid lubricant material, wherein the atomic percentage of the solid lubricant material in the nanocomposite layer is in a range from about 5% to about 99%. A method of making the apparatus is also provided.

Apparatus having a nanocomposite protection layer

A ferroelectric transducer for use with a ferroelectric storage medium includes a read electrode. The read electrode emits a current when a polarity orientation of the read electrode is opposite a polarity orientation of a ferroelectric domain on the storage medium.

Transducers for ferroelectric storage medium

A sensing contact probe includes a beam support and a probe. The probe has a bent beam body that extends from the beam support to a probe tip face that has a position and faces in an angular direction. The bent beam body has first and second beam layers bonded together and have differing residual stresses that bend the beam body. A stress relief region is formed in the bent beam body. The stress relief region has an adjusted stress property that adjusts the bending to control the probe tip face position and angular direction.

Sensing contact probe

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James Dillion Kiely