| US 7,463,572 B2 | ||
| High density data storage medium | ||
| Jane Frommer, San Jose, Calif. (US); Robert D. Miller, San Jose, Calif. (US); Craig Hawker, Los Gatos, Calif. (US); Urs T. Duerig, Rueschlikon (Switzerland); Bernd Gotsmann, Horgen (Switzerland); Peter Vettiger, Langnau Am Albis (Switzerland); and Mark A. Lantz, Zurich (Switzerland) | ||
| Assigned to International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, N.Y. (US) | ||
| Filed on Aug. 29, 2003, as Appl. No. 10/652,421. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2005/0047307 A1, Mar. 03, 2005 | ||
| Int. Cl. G11B 9/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 369—126 | 24 Claims |
| 1. A data storage medium from which information is reproduced by scanning a surface of the medium with a tip positioned in
contact therewith, said medium comprising:
a substrate; and
a polymer recording surface within which data bit values are determined by the topographical state at the bit location, characterised
in that the polymer contains thermally reversible crosslinkages.
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