Western Digital (fremont), Inc.

Kenneth Kung

Mohamad Towfik Krounbi

Kroum Stanimirov Stoev

Francis H Liu

Mark David Thomas

Marcos Moises Lederman

Ming Zhao

Yining Hu

A head including a write element for writing data to a magnetic media, and methods for its production are provided. A write element of the invention includes one or more of a recessed first pole, a heat sink layer, and a shortened yoke length. A method of the invention provides forming an anti-reflective layer before forming a mask layer. During photolithography the anti-reflective layer suppresses undesirable reflections off of features, such as vertical sidewalls, that otherwise limit how closely to such features portions of the mask layer can be formed.

Write element with recessed pole and heat sink layer for ultra-high density writing

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Saratoga, CA, United States of America

Kenneth Kung