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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2014
Seagate Technology Llc, Cupertino, CA (US);
Yuhang Cheng, Edina, MN (US);
Tong Zhao, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Michael C. Kautzky, Eagan, MN (US);
Ed F. Rejda, Bloomington, MN (US);
Kurt W. Wierman, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Scott Franzen, Savage, MN (US);
Andrew J. Boyne, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Michael Allen Seigler, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Sethuraman Jayashankar, Excelsior, MN (US);
Seagate Technology LLC, Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Devices that include a near field transducer (NFT), the NFT having a disc and a peg, and the peg having five surfaces thereof; and at least one adhesion layer positioned on at least one of the five surfaces of the peg, the adhesion layer including one or more of the following: rhenium, osmium, iridium, platinum, hafnium, ruthenium, technetium, rhodium, palladium, beryllium, aluminum, manganese, indium, boron, and combinations thereof beryllium oxide, silicon oxide, iron oxide, zirconium oxide, manganese oxide, cadmium oxide, magnesium oxide, hafnium oxide, and combinations thereof tantalum carbide, uranium carbide, hafnium carbide, zirconium carbide, scandium carbide, manganese carbide, iron carbide, niobium carbide, technetium carbide, rhenium carbide, and combinations thereof chromium nitride, boron nitride, and combinations thereof.