US 2005/0018588 A1 · Data storage device

Abstract

A data storage device is introduced. The data storage device comprises a write head. The write head comprises a heating element and a tip. The write head scans a data storage medium, wherein in an operation mode of the data storage device the tip is in contact with a surface of the data storage medium and heat is applied to the tip by means of the heating element. In order to achieve a good thermal contact between the tip and the data storage medium, the tip comprises a carbon element that is at least partially in contact with the surface in that operation mode. Such a write head can also be applied in the field of scanning probe lithography.

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Dependent claims

Data storage device, comprising:

at least one write head, the write head comprising a heating element and a tip;
a data storage medium, wherein in an operation mode of the data storage device the tip is in contact with a surface of the data storage medium and heat is applied to the tip by means of the heating element;
and
wherein the tip comprises a carbon element that is at least partially in contact with the surface in that operation mode.

1 more element

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

10/852,668Filed 24 May 2004

Priority

EP 03405443.719 Jun 2003

Published

27 Jan 2005

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Classification7 codes

G03F 7/0002
Photomechanical, e.g. photolithographic, production of textured or patterned surfaces, e.g. printing surfaces; Materials therefor, e.g.…
B82Y 10/00
Nanotechnology for information processing, storage or transmission
B82Y 40/00
Manufacture or treatment of nanostructures
G11B 3/001
Recording by mechanical cutting, deforming or pressing, e.g. of grooves or pits; Reproducing by mechanical sensing; Record carriers therefor: with…

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Abstract

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