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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2018
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Gonçalo Marcos Baião De Albuquerque, San Jose, CA (US);
Yunfei Ding, Fremont, CA (US);
Alexander Goncharov, San Jose, CA (US);
Kuok San Ho, Redwood City, CA (US);
Daniele Mauri, San Jose, CA (US);
Goran Mihajlovic, San Jose, CA (US);
Suping Song, Fremont, CA (US);
Petrus Antonius Van Der Heijden, Cupertino, CA (US);
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are apparatuses and methods for writing to a magnetic medium, and data storage devices comprising such apparatuses and methods. An apparatus comprises a main pole, a trailing shield, a write-field-enhancing structure, a write coil, a write current control circuit configured to supply a write current to the write coil to record a bit to a magnetic medium, and a driving current control circuit configured to supply a driving current to the write-field-enhancing structure, wherein the driving current comprises a driving pulse. A method of writing to a magnetic medium comprises supplying a write current to a write coil of a magnetic write head, and supplying a driving current to a free layer disposed in a write gap between a main pole and a trailing shield of the magnetic write head, wherein the driving current comprises an AC component.