Structural Changes of Perfluoropolyether Lubricant Accumulated on the Pin Surface During Laser Heating

• Published in: IEEE transactions on magnetics Vol. 54; no. 11; pp. 1 - 5
• Main Authors: Tani, Hiroshi, Shibahara, Yuta, Lu, Renguo, Koganezawa, Shinji, Tagawa, Norio
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.11.2018; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Head-disk interface (HDI); Heat-assisted magnetic recording; heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR); Heating systems; Ions; Laser beam heating; Lasers; Low molecular weights; lubricant pickup; Lubricants; Lubricants & lubrication; Magnetic recording; Magnetism; Molecular weight; Organic chemistry; Pins; Secondary ion mass spectroscopy; smear; Surface emitting lasers; Thermal stability; time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectroscopy (TOF-SIMS)
• DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2018.2839559
• ISSN: 0018-9464

Structural and molecular weight changes to lubricant picked up the following laser heating in heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) were analyzed using time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectroscopy. The average molecular weight of the disk lubricant increased by laser heating at temperatures over 500 °C and that of the picked up lubricant increased at temperatures over 400 °C. The presence of end-group fragments with low molecular weight (CH 3 O + ) increases in both the disk and picked up lubricants, whereas at high temperature the concentration of the end-group component (C 3 H 7 O 2 + ) decreases in the disk lubricant and increases in the picked up lubricant. Overall, the results presented herein suggest that the chemical and thermal stability of the terminal ends of lubricants should be improved in order to decrease depletion of the lubricant film and the lubricant pickup by the laser heating in HAMR.