http://www.ece.cmu.edu/research/dssc/news_events/ This is an RSS feed of news stories from the Data Storage Systems Center at Carnegie Mellon University. en-us Copyright 2009, DSSC Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:55:45 EST 60 http://www.ece.cmu.edu/research/dssc/images/logo/DSSCfinalsmall.gif http://www.ece.cmu.edu/research/dssc/news_events/ The Data Storage Systems Center will host its Spring 2010 Technical Review on Wednesday, March 24, in the Singleton Room of Roberts Engineering Hall. The technical review, held twice a year, is an opportunity for center members, invited guests and DSSC personnel to be brought up-to-date on current research projects at the DSSC through oral presentations and poster sessions that highlight the center's concentration areas. Thursday, March 25, has also been reserved for sponsor and project meetings. Keep watching this Web site for more information and a detailed agenda for the review. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/research/dssc/news_events/story/2009/10/save_the_date/ Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:11:00 EDT What comes after hard drives? No one can be totally certain, but University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Mark Kryder — founder of the DSSC and chief technical officer and senior vice president of research (retired) at Seagate Technology — has a few ideas. And people are starting to notice. Kryder and ECE graduate student Chang Soo Kim recently completed a study, delivered at Intermag 2009 and published in the October 2009 edition of IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, called "After Hard Drives — What Comes Next?" In the study, Kryder and Kim investigate 13 different nonvolatile memory technologies viewed as being capable of replacing hard disk drives and analyze their likelihood of doing so by 2020 on a cost-per-terabyte basis. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/research/dssc/news_events/story/2009/10/kryder_kim_investigate/ Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:49:00 EDT Jian-Gang (Jimmy) Zhu, ABB Professor of ECE and director of the Data Storage Systems Center, is developing a technology seen as a dark horse in the race toward tomorrow's ultra-dense hard disk drives, according to an October 19 article in EE Times. Zhu is developing a prototype of his microwave-assisted magnetic recording (MAMR) technique he believes will pack three terabits of data in a square inch of a spinning disk. The technique represents a third option in an ongoing debate over the next big shift in hard disk technology expected to emerge in the next year or two. (Read more...) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/research/dssc/news_events/story/2009/10/zhus_mamr_technology/ Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:21:00 EDT DSSC Director and ABB Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Jimmy Zhu was recently featured in an EE Times article about alternate paths for hard disk drives. Specifically, the article cited Zhu's work in microwave assisted magnetic recording and discussed progress toward developing a MAMR prototype. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/research/dssc/news_events/story/2009/10/zhu_featured_in/ Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:07:00 EDT Data storage experts from companies around the globe gathered with DSSC faculty, students and staff on Thursday, Sept. 17, for the center's 2009 Fall Technical Review. Held twice each year, the technical reviews bring the center's data storage researchers together with members of industry to discuss recent research developments and highlight plans for the future of the field. The fall review attracted nearly 100 participants from both industry and academia. Since its inception 26 years ago, the DSSC has conducted leading-edge interdisciplinary research to help support and expand the ever-changing data storage industry. While its primary mission is to prepare students for work in the information storage industry or research careers in academia or the government, the center also works closely with industrial partners to define projects that will take data storage further. It also provides leadership in developing novel technologies for future hard disk drives. The DSSC's semiannual reviews, held in March and September, allow industry and academia to come together, discuss current research, and examine trends for future data storage technologies. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/research/dssc/news_events/story/2009/10/data_storage_experts/ Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:17:00 EDT The Data Storage Systems Center will have a strong showing at the 20th annual Magnetic Recording Conference (TMRC 2009) next week at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Scheduled for Oct. 5–7, the conference will focus on magnetic recording heads and systems, with particular emphasis given to read and write head design and development; advanced reader, energy assisted write technologies and write head dynamics; head/media interface and reliability; head testing, methods and apparatus; high data rate effects and advanced electrical interconnects; recording systems and integration; advanced recording channels and detection algorithms; advanced coding and error-correction technologies; and system reliability and mechanics. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/research/dssc/news_events/story/2009/10/dssc_faculty_head/ Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:25:00 EDT When Tim Rausch (E'2003) was in high school, he never dreamed he'd one day have a PhD in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon. But by walking through doors that life opened for him, Rausch shaped a career in data storage that he would never have considered more than a decade ago. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/research/dssc/news_events/story/2009/08/rausch_walks_through/ Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:05:00 EDT The Information Storage Industry Consortium (INSIC) and Data Storage Systems Center will co-sponsor a workshop on a light-delivery technique for heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) on Wednesday, Sept. 16, on the Carnegie Mellon campus in Pittsburgh. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/research/dssc/news_events/story/2009/08/insic_dssc_sponsor/ Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:56:00 EDT The Data Storage Systems Center will hold its 2009 Fall Technical Review on Thursday, Sept. 17, in the Singleton Room of Roberts Engineering Hall on the Carnegie Mellon campus. The fall review will follow the successful one-day model introduced at the Spring 2009 Technical Review, and will feature technical presentations and poster sessions on exciting research progress the center has made in the past six months. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/research/dssc/news_events/story/2009/08/dssc_to_host/ Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:07:00 EDT DSSC Director and ABB Professor of Engineering Jimmy Zhu and DSSC Associate Director and Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor James A. Bain will both deliver invited talks at the Magnetics and Optics Research International Symposium for New Storage Technology (MORIS). Scheduled for June 15–18 in Hyogo, Japan, the symposium will cover combined effects of optical, thermal and magnetic natures from fundamental new materials to application of functional media. The single-session conference, held annually, features invited talks and poster presentations of contributed papers. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/research/dssc/news_events/story/2009/06/dssc_directors_deliver/ Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:16:00 EDT Materials Science and Engineering Professor Katayun Barmak and Microscopy Lab Supervisor Thomas Nuhfer have become the first materials scientists worldwide to successfully map polycrystalline structures on a nanoscale. This mapping ability has come at the same time that Barmak and her colleagues found that physical properties of some structures change at the nanoscale. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/research/dssc/news_events/story/2009/06/barmak_develops_nanoscale/ Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:14:00 EDT ECE Professor Daniel Stancil and ECE alumnus Anil Prabhakar are the authors of a new book published last month by Springer. Spin Waves, Theory and Applications covers topics foundational to understanding spin waves such as the physics of magnetism and electromagnetic waves in anisotropic media, as well as both classical and quantum mechanical treatments of spin wave excitations. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/research/dssc/news_events/story/2009/05/stancil_coauthors_new/ Tue, 19 May 2009 11:47:00 EDT Carnegie Mellon faculty, students and researchers — including those in the Data Storage Systems Center — have a new instrument to add to their data storage research toolbox: an ultra-high vacuum (UHV) system outfitted with a scanning probe microscope and other surface analysis tools that will aid researchers working on the Tip-Directed Field-Enhanced Nanofabrication (TFAN) project. The TFAN UHV system, purchased from RHK Technology in Troy, Mich., can reduce atmospheric pressure to 1x10-10 torr and contains four chambers, each playing a unique role and offering different instrumentation for preparing, mapping and — possibly — patterning small surfaces. Each chamber is separated from its neighbors by a gate valve that controls contamination and keeps the pressure of each chamber intact, regardless of what happens in the other chambers. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/research/dssc/news_events/story/2009/05/tfan_uhv_system/ Thu, 14 May 2009 15:37:00 EDT Carnegie Mellon kicked off its "Inspire Innovation" capital campaign this past fall, and the College of Engineering's Nanofabrication Facility is featured in the campaign's overview video. The video gives an overview of the university and the goals of "Inspire Innovation," but pay particular attention at the 51-second mark and at 5:05 minutes. You might see some familiar faces! (Process Engineer Suresh Santhanam, Nanofab Technician Mike Sakaluk, and DSSC grad students Yunchuan Kong and Jeong-Heon Park are a few of the people you may be able to pick out.) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/research/dssc/news_events/story/2009/05/nanofab_footage_helps/ Tue, 12 May 2009 14:10:00 EDT Pit Southern California against Pittsburgh in almost any competition and California often takes the cake. Weather? Sure. Lifestyle? Often. Proximity to the beach? Of course. But for Francis Liu (E'94), Pittsburgh offered one thing that So Cal couldn't: Carnegie Mellon University. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/research/dssc/news_events/story/2009/05/alumni_profile_liu/ Tue, 12 May 2009 13:01:00 EDT The Data Storage Systems Center will head west next week as 14 of the center's faculty and students travel to Sacramento, Calif., for IEEE's International Magnetics Conference (Intermag 2009). The conference, which runs May 4–8 at the Sacramento Convention Center, draws scientists and engineers from all over to world to meet and discuss novel developments in magnetics, magnetic materials and associated technologies. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/research/dssc/news_events/story/2009/04/dssc_to_have/ Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:34:00 EDT Nearly 100 members of academia and industry gathered in Roberts Engineering Hall at Carnegie Mellon University on March 24 for the Data Storage Systems Center's (DSSC) Spring Technical Review. Held twice each year, the center's technical reviews provide an opportunity for the DSSC to showcase its research for the industry it serves through faculty and student presentations, poster sessions, and meetings with corporate affiliates. Since its inception 26 years ago, the DSSC has conducted leading-edge interdisciplinary research to help support and expand the ever-changing data storage industry. While its primary mission is to prepare students for work in the information storage industry or research careers in academia or the government, the center also works closely with industrial partners to define projects that will take data storage further. It also provides leadership in developing novel technologies for future hard disk drives. The DSSC's semiannual reviews, held in March and September, allow industry and academia to come together, discuss current research, and examine trends for future data storage technologies. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/research/dssc/news_events/story/2009/04/research_relevance_reaffirmed/ Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:54:00 EDT Alfred A. Thiele, a distinguished scholar in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department's Data Storage Systems Center, died suddenly March 26 in Pittsburgh. Thiele, 71, contributed to the fundamental understanding of the physics behind magnetic bubble domains and invented some of the primary devices that were used in magnetic bubble computer chips during the early 1970s at Bell Telephone Labs in Murray Hill, N.J. The Louisville, Ky., native earned his first patent at age 19 for research involving transistor technology for electric circuits. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/research/dssc/news_events/story/2009/04/carnegie_mellon_engineering/ Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:06:00 EDT The Data Storage Systems Center was one of several College of Engineering research centers featured in the spring 2009 issue of Carnegie Mellon Engineering magazine. In the article "Returns on Investment," author Sherry Stokes outlines the college's long, prosperous relationship with corporate sponsors and the benefits both receive as a result of such close collaboration. The DSSC is held up as an example of an academia-industry partnership that has literally transformed the field. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/research/dssc/news_events/story/2009/03/dssc_featured_in/ Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:52:00 EDT David Laughlin, ALCOA Professor of Physical Metallurgy and a professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department, recently earned two awards for distinguished achievements in materials science research and education. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/research/dssc/news_events/story/2009/03/laughlin_earns_distinguished/ Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:06:00 EDT