Apparatus comprising magnetically soft underlayer

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 10311907
APP PUB NO 20140313615A1
SERIAL NO

14229750

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Provided herein is an apparatus, including a magnetically soft underlayer (SUL); an interlayer stack overlying the SUL, wherein the interlayer stack comprises a seed layer of an fcc material; and a perpendicular magnetic recording layer overlying the interlayer stack, wherein a thickness of the SUL in combination with a distance of the SUL from the perpendicular recording layer is sufficient to orient a total magnetic field corresponding to a magnetic transducer head at an angle of about 45°.

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  • SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY, LLC

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Feng, Yong-Chang Fremont, US 4 74
Harkness, Samuel D Berkeley, US 10 134
Nolan, Thomas P Fremont, US 35 143
Richter, Hans J Palo Alto, US 27 285
Tang, Li Fremont, US 120 500
Wu, Zhong (Stella) Fremont, US 4 13
Zheng, Youfeng San Jose, US 33 177

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