Frontiers of Magnetic Recording

该奖项为大学联盟提供资金，以开展磁性数据存储和记录主题的合作研究。该提案扩展并建立在数据存储系统中心（DSSC）目前在数据存储方面的产学研合作研究的基础上，DSSC是卡内基梅隆大学的一个工程研究中心。该研究的目的是研究超高磁数据存储密度技术障碍的科学和工程基础，以及解决这些障碍的潜在方法。主要的推力领域包括在连续薄膜介质上的纵向磁记录，在连续和自结构磁性介质上的垂直磁记录，以及目前半导体工业在薄膜磁性材料上使用的加工技术的应用，以产生用于高密度存储的单个纳米级单磁畴。本研究涉及的学科包括极薄膜磁性材料科学与工程、磁性器件物理、纳米尺度离散磁性器件建模、设计与加工、材料学、摩擦学、磁性表面微观力学、空气轴承流体力学、微机电器件、信号处理等。这项研究由社会保障司司长协调。国家存储产业联盟按比例为联盟中有直接关系的各大学提供成本匹配。

This award provides funds to a consortium of universities to do collaborative research on the topic of magnetic data storage and recording. The proposal expands and builds upon the research of the current collaborative industry-university efforts in data storage at the Data Storage Systems Center (DSSC), which is an Engineering Research Center at the Carnegie Mellon University. The objective of the research is to investigate the scientific and engineering bases underlying technical barriers to extremely high magnetic data storage density, and potential solutions to these barriers. Major thrust areas include longitudinal magnetic recording on continuous film media, perpendicular magnetic recording with both continuous and self-structured magnetic media, and application of processing techniques currently used by the semiconductor industry to thin film magnetic materials to produce individual nanometer-scale single magnetic domains for high density storage. The academic disciplines involved in this research include extremely thin film magnetic materials science and engineering, magnetic device physics, modeling, design and processing of nanometer scale descrete magnetic devices, materials science, tribology, and micromechanics of magnetic surfaces, fluid mechanics of air beqarings, microelectromechanical devices, and signal processing.The research is being coordinated by the Director of the DSSC. The National Storage Industry Consortium provides cost matching to the various universities in the consortium in direct relationship on a pro rata basis.