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Simulation Of Lubricant Evaporation / Flow From A Nanoscale Film Under Laser Heating For Cloud-Storage Applications, Sean Anthony, Hannah Verbanac, Turki Alkhelaiwi

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

The process known as heat-assisted magnetic recording is an advanced data storage technology which can be applied to develop higher data-density storage in next generation hard disk drives. Such drives are instrumental in the utility of server storage devices and the storage of large-data projects such as that of the Event Horizon Telescope array. During this process, data is written to a magnetic surface by means of laser heating; the coercivity of the magnetic medium is reduced by the heating of this surface, and within this heating period, data is able to be written to the disk in a smaller …