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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2006
Peter Baechtold, Gattikon, CH;
Johannes G. Bednorz, Wolfhausen, CH;
Gerd K. Binnig, Wollerau, CH;
Giovanni Cherubini, Rueschlikon, CH;
Evangelos S. Eleftheriou, Zurich, CH;
Michel Despont, Au, CH;
Peter Baechtold, Gattikon, CH;
Johannes G. Bednorz, Wolfhausen, CH;
Gerd K. Binnig, Wollerau, CH;
Giovanni Cherubini, Rueschlikon, CH;
Evangelos S. Eleftheriou, Zurich, CH;
Michel Despont, Au, CH;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A storage device including a storage medium for storing data in the form of topographic or magnetic marks. At least one probe is mounted on a common frame, the common frame and the storage medium designed for moving relative to each other for creating or detecting said marks. Each probe includes a tip facing the storage medium, a read sensing element, a write element and a capacitive platform, that forms a first electrode and is designed for a voltage potential applied to it independent from a control signal for said read sensing element and for said voltage potential applied to said capacitive platform being independent from a control signal for said write heating element. It further comprises a second electrode arranged in a fixed position relative to the storage medium forming a first capacitor together wherein said first electrode and a medium between the first and second electrode.