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7616551 Molecular optoelectronic memory device  
Method for employing optical state-change organic polymer films as information-storage layers in optoelectronic, high-density memories, and high-density optoelectronic memories produced by the...
7605368 Vibration-type cantilever holder and scanning probe microscope  
A vibration-type cantilever holder holds a cantilever opposed to a sample. The holder supports a main body part of the cantilever at only its base end so that a probe at the free end of the...
7603026 Information processing method and information processing apparatus  
This invention provides an information processing method and apparatus, which can set all extent sizes of data divisionally recorded on a disk to be equal to or larger than the minimum recording...
7602693 Data recording apparatus  
A data recording apparatus includes a recording medium which includes a semiconductor substrate, a first insulating layer formed on one surface of the substrate, a second insulating layer formed on...
7602170 Probe, manufacturing method of the probe, recording apparatus, and reproducing apparatus  
A probe ( 100 ) is provided with: a support member having a through-hole in at least one portion thereof; a projection standing on the support member with its tip facing a medium; and a conductive...
7599278 Recording medium comprising ferroelectric layer, nonvolatile memory device comprising recording medium, and methods of writing and reading data for the memory device  
A recording medium including a ferroelectric layer, a nonvolatile memory device including the recording medium and methods of wiring and reading data in the memory device. The recording medium...
7599213 Low surface energy coatings in probe recording  
An apparatus includes a storage media having a surface coated with a lubricant, and a plurality of probes having tips contacting the lubricant, wherein the probes are coated with one of a...
7598096 Methods of forming ferroelectric crystals as storage media and structures formed thereby  
Methods and associated structures of forming a microelectronic device are described. Those methods may comprise forming a conductive layer on a single crystal ferroelectric material, patterning the...
7596072 Optical recording using a waveguide structure and a phase change medium  
An apparatus comprises a slider having an air bearing surface, a first waveguide for directing electromagnetic radiation to a focal point adjacent to the air bearing surface, a storage medium...
7593309 Method for recording data and device for carrying out the same comprising a deformable memory support  
The recording device comprises a network of micro-points ( 6 ), with tips of nanometer scale, fixed to the same substrate ( 7 ). Said network of micro-points cooperates with a deformable memory...
7586828 Magnetic data storage system  
A magnetic data storage system having a scanning tip array based system and a shape memory thin film-based data storage medium. Prior to storing data, the medium is in its non-ferromagnetic...
7577078 Magnetic recording medium and apparatus and method for reading data from the magnetic recording medium using parallel and anti-parallel magnetization direction in separate magnetic layers  
A magnetic recording medium and an apparatus and a method for reading data using spin-dependent scattering of electrons are provided. The apparatus includes a probe, a magnetic recording medium, a...
7567497 Recording system comprising a storage layer and an array of microtips  
The recording system consists of a recording medium ( 1 ) comprising a storage layer ( 2 ) which can store information. A data read and/or write device ( 4 ) comprises an array of microtips ( 5 )...
7564768 Recording and reproducing apparatus  
The invention is a recording and reproducing apparatus for recording data on a recording medium having a holographic recording area and a buffer recording area. The recording and reproducing...
7558185 Storage device having flexible architecture and free scalability  
A storage device according to the invention has flexible architecture and free scalability. It includes an address input and a data input. It also includes an address and data evaluation unit,...
7542403 Optical data storage system  
An optical data storage system includes a light emitting and receiving device ( 30 ), a light transmission device ( 31 ) having an input port ( 32 ) and an output port ( 33 ). The input port is...
7542402 Contact probe storage FET sensor and write heater arrangements  
A read/write arrangement for a contact probe storage arrangement or the like, has a cantilever disposed with a medium which is movable relative to the cantilever. A device which is associated with...
7539119 Data storage apparatus using current switching in metal oxide layer  
Provided is a data storage apparatus using current switching in a metal oxide layer. The data storage apparatus includes a substrate; a lower electrode layer disposed on the substrate; a metal...
7535817 Nanometer scale data storage device and associated positioning system  
A data storage system that includes a positioning system for positioning the write/read mechanism and the storage medium of the data storage device with respect to each other in first and second...
7525893 Electron beam recorder and electron beam irradiation position detecting method  
An electron beam recorder includes an electron optical system for irradiating an electron beam on a master of an information recording medium and an electron beam irradiation position detecting...
7522512 Silicon carbide indents for probe storage utilizing thermomechanically activated polymer media  
Storing data by forming permanent indents in a preceramic polymer, on a substrate, via a chemical reaction transforming the polymer through permanent phase change into hardened, ceramic material,...
7522511 Method for mechanical data storage device operation and control  
The present invention provides data storage devices, systems and methods. An example device includes: a storage medium for storing data in the form of marks; and at least one probe. The probe(s)...
7514942 Probe based patterning of microelectronic and micromechanical devices  
Patterning of microelectronic and micromechanical devices is described using probes. In one example, a plurality of probe tips are driven into a processing layer of a substrate. The probe tips are...
7508747 Derivative qualified zero crossing detector apparatus and methods  
Apparatus and methods are provided for detecting the presence of data in a recording media in a plurality of data locations. A mechanical detector is used to sense a data location and generate an...
7505394 Flexible membrane comprising notches  
The flexible membrane comprises at least one thin layer with a plurality of indentations formed therein, wherein bearing points for actuating elements are disposed between said indentations in...
7502305 Data storage device and method of tracking data stored in the same  
Provided are a data storage device and a method of tracking data stored in the data storage device. The device includes a data storage medium on which data can be recorded and erased, a plurality...
7502304 Data recording and reproducing device, data recording and reproducing method, and recording medium  
A position control area ( 76 A) is partly formed in the recording area ( 75 ) of a recording medium ( 70 ) and position information is recorded only in the position control area ( 76 A). To record...
7499309 Using organic semiconductor memory in conjunction with a MEMS actuator for an ultra high density memory  
A metal sulfide based non-volatile memory device is provided herein. The device is comprised of a substrate, a backplane, a planar memory media including a dense array of metal sulfide based memory...
7489619 Probe position error detecting method and apparatus in probe-based data storage system  
A probe position error detecting method and apparatus in a probe-based data storage system are provided. The method includes preparing servo codes, which are Gray codes. The Gray codes have a...
7489618 Position detection system of probe-based data storage apparatus and position detection method  
A position detection system of a data storage apparatus and a position detection method. The position detection system includes a recording medium including a plurality of servo fields and data...
7483363 Data storage device and method for operating a data storage device  
A data storage device comprising a storage medium for storing data in the form of marks. An array of probes is mounted on a common frame. The common frame and the storage medium are designed for...
7483362 Recording/reproducing apparatus  
In a recording/reproducing apparatus having a large number of probes, being still usable continuously when several pieces of the probes are in trouble, wherein a plural number of probes are so...
7474602 Data storage device comprising write head with carbon element  
A data storage device is introduced. The data storage device comprises a write head. The write head comprises a heating element and a tip. The write head scans a data storage medium, wherein in an...
7471615 Storage device having information to identify defective storage region  
A storage device includes a storage medium and a probe to read from and write to the storage medium. The storage medium has a plurality of storage regions, where each storage region contains...
7471614 High density data storage medium  
A method reading, writing, and erasing data includes bringing a thermal-mechanical probe into proximity with a layer of cross-linked polymeric material to induce a deformed region at a point in the...
7471609 Hologram reproduction apparatus and reproduction method  
A hologram reproduction apparatus includes a light-receiving unit such as a two-dimensional sensor which obtains two-dimensionally modulated image data, and an A/D converter which A/D-converts...
7466644 High-speed, high-density data storage apparatus employing time-division-multiplexing technique, and data recording method and data reproducing method both using the apparatus  
A data storage apparatus adopting a time division multiplexing technique, and a data recording method and a data reproduction method both using the apparatus, are provided. In the data storage...
7463573 Patterned media for a high density data storage device  
Systems in accordance with the present invention can include a tip contactable with a media, the media including a substrate and a plurality of cells disposed over the substrate, one or more of the...
7453789 Data recording device with conducting microtips and production method thereof  
The invention relates to a data-recording device comprising conductive microtips and to the production method thereof. According to the invention, the microtip comprises one end which is intended...
7447140 Ferroelectric probe storage apparatus  
An apparatus comprises a ferroelectric storage medium, and a transducer for reading data from the ferroelectric storage medium and for writing data to the ferroelectric storage medium, wherein the...
7443781 Reducing variations in density of perturbations on a storage medium  
A method of storing data in a storage device having a probe to form perturbations in a storage medium of the storage device includes receiving input write data bits and encoding the input write...
7436754 Information-recording medium and method  
The present invention relates to an information-recording medium for recording and reproducing information by using light and a method for recording information for the purpose of high-speed and...
7436748 Storage device and method for operating a storage device  
A storage device and a method for operating a storage device. A storage medium for storing data in form of marks is scanned by at least one probe in a scanning mode. A control unit provides a...
7426174 Information recording medium having pair of electrodes  
Disclosed herewith is a method for enabling fast and high density recording of information. A voltage is applied to a recording layer formed between a pair of electrodes. The distance between the...
7423954 Contact probe storage sensor pod  
An embodiment of a read mechanism used in a contact atomic resolution storage system, has a cantilever disposed with a medium which is movable relative to the cantilever. The cantilever has a probe...
7414953 Memory having a layer with electrical conductivity anisotropy  
A data storage device comprises a media including a memory layer within which are formable domains associated with information, and a conductive layer disposed over the memory layer, the conductive...
7406021 Electroluminescent multilayer optical information storage medium with integrated readout and composition of matter for use therein  
An optical information storage medium has multiple information layers. On each layer, information is stored in the form of an electroluminescent material. The pits are organized into regions called...
7406020 Method of writing data on a storage device using a probe technique  
A method of writing data on a storage device using a probe technique. In the method of writing data on a memory device including a resistive probe used for reading and writing of data, a...
7403468 Recording medium having position recognition structure, and position recognition apparatus and method  
Position information is formed on a recording surface of a recording medium. The position information is constructed from first line segments, which are parallel to each other, and a second line...
7403467 Storage device and method for scanning a storage medium  
A storage device and a method for scanning a storage medium. A storage medium for storing data in the form of marks is scanned by an array of probes for mark detecting purposes in a scanning mode....