Near-Field Optical Transducer for Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording for Beyond-10-Tbit/in2 Densities

Continuous device downscaling, growing integration densities of the nanoscale electronics and development of alternative information processing paradigms, such as spintronics and quantum computing, call for drastic increase in the data storage capacity. In this paper we review our recent results for the design, fabrication and characterization of the near-field optical transducer for heat-assisted…