The modeling for investigating the thermal effect on slider in heat assisted magnetic recording is built and its verification is conducted by comparing the simulation results and experiment results. The temperature distribution on the slider induced by locally heated media in 1Tb/in² is simulated and the results show that the effect is within a very small zone on the bottom surface. The temperature changes on other surfaces are less than 0.1°C, which can be negligible.

Date Published: 11 July 2007
PDF: 6 pages
Proc. SPIE 6620, Optical Data Storage 2007, 66200S (11 July 2007); doi: 10.1117/12.738909

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 6620:
Optical Data Storage 2007
Bernard Bell; Takeshi Shimano, Editor(s)