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AssigneeWestern Digital Technologies, Inc.
InventorsPankaj Mehra, Bernd Lamberts, Sridhar Chatradhi, Jordan A. Katine
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Disclosed herein are magnetic storage media with embedded disconnected circuits, and magnetic storage systems comprising such media. A magnetic storage media comprises a recording layer comprising a storage location, and an embedded disconnected circuit (EDC) configured to assist in at least one of writing to or reading from the storage location in response to a wireless activation signal. A magnetic storage system comprises a signal generator configured to generate a wireless activation signal, a magnetic storage media with a plurality of storage locations, and a write transducer and/or a read receiver. The magnetic storage media has at least one EDC configured to assist in writing to and/or reading from at least one of the plurality of storage locations in response to the wireless activation signal.
A method of using an embedded disconnected circuit (EDC) embedded entirely within an EDC layer of a magnetic storage media to read a storage location in a recording layer of the magnetic storage media, the EDC layer being situated above or below the recording layer, the EDC being disconnected from the storage location, the method comprising:
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