Nanomaterials for Smart Data Storage
Lead Participant:
SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY (IRELAND)
Abstract
Demand for data storage continues to grow at a rate of over 40% in part a result of the movement to cloud
storage. Most of the world’s digital information is and will continue to be stored on hard drives. Innovation in
the read-write transducer, from which information is recorded and read, is critical to increased hard drive data
capacity. Today, 25% of the world's transducers are manufactured in the UK giving us a unique opportunity to
grow as demand for this complex nano-engineered component increases. This project will deliver a smart hard
drive with improved data capacity using atomically engineered materials to enable Heat Assisted Magnetic
Recording (HAMR). Smart materials, engineered at the atomic scale, will boost performance and reliablity for
HAMR hard drives, decreasing time to market. Seagate is a leader in developing HAMR technology and we will
demonstrate the feasibility read-write transducers with these new engineered materials. Southampton
University a world leader in the area of engineered nanophotonic materials while Ilika provides the
implementation path to demonstrate these materials at the required pilot line scale for the first time.
storage. Most of the world’s digital information is and will continue to be stored on hard drives. Innovation in
the read-write transducer, from which information is recorded and read, is critical to increased hard drive data
capacity. Today, 25% of the world's transducers are manufactured in the UK giving us a unique opportunity to
grow as demand for this complex nano-engineered component increases. This project will deliver a smart hard
drive with improved data capacity using atomically engineered materials to enable Heat Assisted Magnetic
Recording (HAMR). Smart materials, engineered at the atomic scale, will boost performance and reliablity for
HAMR hard drives, decreasing time to market. Seagate is a leader in developing HAMR technology and we will
demonstrate the feasibility read-write transducers with these new engineered materials. Southampton
University a world leader in the area of engineered nanophotonic materials while Ilika provides the
implementation path to demonstrate these materials at the required pilot line scale for the first time.
Lead Participant | Project Cost | Grant Offer |
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SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY (IRELAND) | £340,586 | £ 170,293 |
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Participant |
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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON | £210,405 | |
INNOVATE UK | ||
SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY IRELAND | ||
ILIKA TECHNOLOGIES LTD | £335,743 | £ 201,446 |
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON |
People |
ORCID iD |
Mark Gubbins (Project Manager) |