Seagate Technology Incorporated

Robert Anthony Fernandez

Paul Macarius Olsen

Michael Allen Seigler

Tong Zhao

Yuhang Cheng

Xiaoyue Huang

Scott Michael Franzen

Steven Carl Riemer

David James Ellison

Daniel Richard Buettner

Douglas Hampton Cole

Devices having an air bearing surface (ABS), the devices include a write pole; a near field transducer (NFT) including a peg and a disc, wherein the peg is at the ABS of the device; an overcoat, the overcoat including a low surface energy layer.

Devices including an overcoat layer

A method of cleaning a recording medium, such as a disc. The method includes contacting a surface of the recording medium with a cleaning tape comprising a flexible backing and a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) coating. The cleaning tape may include an abrasive coating, with the SAM on the abrasive coating.

Media cleaning with self-assembled monolayer material

Methods for providing a SAM (self-assembled monolayer) coating on a slider and subsequently removing a portion of the SAM coating. In one implementation, the method includes applying a SAM coating on at least a first surface of a slider and on a second surface of the slider opposite the first surface, and removing at least a portion of the SAM coating from the second surface by irradiating the second surface with UV radiation in a wavelength range of 100-200 nm.

Method of patterning self-assembled monolayer on slider

Growing community of inventors

Bloomington, MN, United States of America

Robert Anthony Fernandez