Conference Program at a glance

Wednesday, August 8th

Session A:HAMR System and Recording Physics
Paper ID# Wed AM Speaker Title
A1 9:00-9:30 AM Randy Victora, Univ. of Minnesota Optical Absorption in Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording Media
A2 9:30-10:00 AM Cristian Papusoi, Western Digital Magnetization Reversal Mechanism in L10 FePt Granular Thin Films for HAMR Applications
A3 10:00-10:30 AM Zenyuan Liu, Seagate Skew and Curvature in Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording
Coffee Break 10:30-10:45 AM
A4 10:45-11:15 AM Julius Hohlfeld, Seagate Dissecting Transition Noise in HAMR: Separation of Jitter and Remanence Contribution
A5 11:15-11:45 AM Ian Gilbert, Seagate Measuring Thermal Gradient in HAMR using Pseudorandom Bit Sequences
A6 11:45 AM-12:15 PM Kwaku Eason, Symphonious Technologies Analysis of Partially Pole-Embedded Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording Head

Session B:HAMR HDI, Advanced HDD
Paper ID# Wed PM Speaker Title
B1 1:30-2:00 PM Shaomin Xiong, Western Digital Spacing Control in Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording
B2 2:00-2:30 PM Sukumar Rajauria, Western Digital Novel Ultra-sensitive Air Bearing Excitation based Resonance Contact Detection in Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording
B3 2:30-3:00 PM Ulf Wiedwald, Univ. of Duisburg-Essen MAX-phase Films as Heat Sinks for Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording
Coffee Break 3:00-3:15 PM
B4 3:15-3:45 PM Richard Brockie, Western Digital ATI Considerations in Helium-filled Hard Disk Drives
B5 3:45-4:15 PM Peter Goglia, L2 Drive HDD Fully Active Head-Media Spacing Control in Vacuum
B6 4:15-4:45 PM Goncalo Albuquerque, Western Digital Side Reading in Soft Biased Stabilized Readers
B7 4:45-5:15 PM Euiseok Hwang, Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology Asynchronous Joint Track Equalizer for Array Reader based Interlaced Magnetic Recording

Thursday, August 9th

Session C:MAMR and Reader
Paper ID# Thur AM Speaker Title
C1 9:00-9:30 AM Nobuaki Kikuchi, Tohoku University Microwave Assisted Switching Behaviour of CoCrPt Based Granular Media
C2 9:30-10:00 AM Yasushi Kanai, Niigata Institute of Technology Micromagnetic Model Simulations Considering Write Head, Spin-Torque Oscillator and Double-Layered Medium Altogether
C3 10:00-10:30 AM Hirofumi Suto, Toshiba Microwave Assisted Magnetization Switching of Antiferromagnetically Coupled Magnetic Bilayer with Perpendicular Magnetization
Coffee Break 10:30-10:45 AM
C4 10:45-11:15 AM Yi Li, SPEC, CEA Saclay Dipolar Field Interaction between Two Adjacent Vortex Spin Torque Oscillators: Synchronization and Coupling Strength Quantification
C5 11:15-11:45 AM Yasuaki Nakamura, Ehime University A Study on Envelope Detection using Temporal Magnetization Dynamics of Resonantly Interacting Spin-Torque Oscillator for Three-Dimensional Magnetic Recording
C6 11:45 AM-12:15 PM Tomoya Nakatani, National Institute of Materials Science Development of CPP-GMR Sensors with Reduced Layer Thickness and Large Magnetoresistive Outputs

Session D:Future MRAM Technologies
Paper ID# Thur PM Speaker Title
D1 1:30-2:00 PM Jian-Gang Zhu, Carnegie Mellon University Novel Spin Memory and Logic: Physics and Materials
D2 2:00-2:30 PM Jordan Katine, Western Digital Investigation of Future MRAM Technologies
D3 2:30-3:00 PM Jian-Ping Wang, Univ. of Minnesota MRAM, CRAM, and Magnetic Logic - New Physics and Materials
Coffee Break 3:00-3:15 PM
D4 3:15-3:45 PM S.N.Piramanayagam, Nanyang Technological University Domain Wall Devices for Information Storage
D5 3:45-4:15 PM Shan Wang, Stanford University Ultrafast 3-Terminal and 2-Terminal MRAM enabled by Spin-Orbit Torque or Thermally Assisted Switching
D6 4:15-4:45 PM Alan Kalitsov, Western Digital Combination of Computational and Experimental Material Search for Efficient Magnetization Manipulation and Information Storage
D7 4:45-5:15 PM Jiaxi Hu, Univ. of Minnesota Non-local Lateral Spin Valve enabled Alternate Memory Architectures

Friday, August 10th

Session E: Spin Transfer Torque MRAM
Paper ID# Fri AM Speaker Title
E1 9:00-9:30 AM Steven Lequeux, Univ. Grenoble Alpes/CNRS Toward High Density STT-MRAM at Sub-20nm Nodes
E2 9:30-10:00 AM Weisheng Zhao, Beihang University Current-induced Magnetization Switching in Atom-thick Tungsten Engineered Perpendicular Magnetic Tunnel Junctions with Large Tunneling Magnetoresistance
E3 10:00-10:30 AM Luc Thomas, TDK-Headway Development of Perpendicular STT-MRAM for Last Level Cache Applications
Coffee Break 10:30-10:45 AM
E4 10:45-11:15 AM Mahendra Pakala, Applied Materials Perpendicular Magnetic Tunnel Junction Array Processing for STT MRAM
E5 11:15-11:45 AM Daniel Worledge, IBM Almaden Research Center Spin-Transfer-Torque MRAM
E6 11:45 AM-12:15 PM Terry Torng, Gyrfalcon Technology How Embedded MRAM enables Decentralized AI Market

Session F:Novel MRAM Concepts, Materials and Modeling Approches
Paper ID# Fri PM Speaker Title
F1 1:30-2:00 PM Dmytro Apalkov, Samsung Thermal Stability Determination by Current-driven Switching: Limitations of Macrospin Model
F2 2:00-2:30 PM Pedram Khalili, Northwestern University Voltage-induced Magnetic Switching: Towards the Limits of Energy Efficiency and Speed in Spintronics
F3 2:30-3:00 PM Hans Nembach, National Institute of Standards and Technology The Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction in Magnetic Multilayers
Coffee Break 3:00-3:15 PM
F4 3:15-3:45 PM Lei Wang, Xi'an Jiaotong University A Novel STT-MRAM Design with Field Assisted Synthetic Anti-Ferromagnet Free Layer
F5 3:45-4:15 PM Delin Zhang, Univ. of Minnesota L10-phase FePd Fully Perpendicular Magnetic Tunnel Junction for STT-MRAM Application
F6 4:15-4:45 PM Sumio Ikegawa, Everspin Technologies Acceleration Tests for Data Retention and Endurance in STT-MRAM

 

 

 

Conference chair
Kumar Srinivasan
Western Digital
kumar.srinivasan@wdc.com

 

Program co-chairs
Ganping Ju
Seagate Technology
ganping.a.ju@seagate.com

 

Christian Kaiser
Western Digital
christian.kaiser@wdc.com

 

Goran Mihajlovic
Western Digital
goran.mihajlovic@wdc.com

 

Yuchen Zhou
yuchen_zhou@hotmail.com

 

Poster co-chairs
Michael Alex
Western Digital
michael.alex@wdc.com

 

Fatih Erden
Seagate Technology
fatih.erden@seagate.com

 

Local co-chairs
Vitaliy Lomakin
UC San Diego
vlomakin@eng.ucsd.edu

 

Daniel Lottis
Western Digital
daniel.lottis@wdc.com

 

Publication co-chairs
Simon Greaves
Tohoku University
simon@riec.tohoku.ac.jp


Yuepeng Zhang
Argonne National Laboratory
yuepeng@anl.gov

 

Publicity chair
Tiffany Santos
Western Digital
tiffany.santos@wdc.com

 

Treasurer
Chris Rea
Seagate Technology
chris.j.rea@seagate.com