Seagate Technology Incorporated

Magic Technologies, Inc.

Mei-Ling Wu

Michael C Kautzky

Declan Macken

Dieter Klaus Weller

Joel William Hoehn

Sarbeswar Sahoo

James Dillon Kiely

Yukiko A Kubota

Brian William Karr

Christopher Loren Platt

Rueyshing Star Huang

A device having an air bearing surface, the device including a writer portion having an air bearing surface at the air bearing surface of the device; and an overcoat layer disposed on at least a portion of the air bearing surface of the writer portion, wherein the overcoat includes a material having a magnetic moment of at least about 0.1 Tesla (T).

Overcoats that include magnetic materials

In a method of vacuum packaging a MEMS device, at least one MEMS device is attached on a substrate. A solder preform is printed on the substrate at the perimeter surrounding the substrate. A lid is attached to the solder preform wherein the lid provides a cavity enclosing the at least one MEMS device. A first reflowing step reflows the solder at a first temperature, partially sealing the lid/substrate interface and at the same time does the outgassing and baking procedure for the packaging. Flux is applied onto an outer ring of the solder preform and a second step reflows the solder at a second temperature, completely sealing the lid/substrate interface and providing a vacuum cavity enclosing the at least one MEMS device.

MEMS device package with vacuum cavity by two-step solder reflow method

A magnetic recording medium of the perpendicular type, for a disc drive. The magnetic recording material includes a Cobalt alloy layer interspersed with a noble metal layer. The initial graded material is paramagnetic to increase to the magnetic properties of perpendicular recording media into increase the signal to noise ratio. The final recording layer has 8-20 alternating multilayer of the Cobalt alloy and a noble metal.

Exchange decoupled cobalt/noble metal perpendicular recording media

The present invention provides a recording medium having a solid lubricating layer that has increased thermal stability over traditional solid lubricants. The lubricating layer includes amorphous fluorinated carbon doped with a thermally stabilizing dopant, such as N or SiO . In one embodiment, a method of lubricating the recording medium by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition is also provided.

Recording medium with a lubricating layer having increased thermal stability

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Mei-Ling Wu