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Probe technologies

Selected publications

  1. E. Eleftheriou, T. Antonakopoulos, G. K. Binnig, G. Cherubini, M. Despont, A. Dholakia, U. Dürig, M. A. Lantz, H. Pozidis, H. E. Rothuizen, and P. Vettiger, “Millipede — a MEMS-based Scanning-Probe Data-Storage System,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 39, no.2, pp. 938-945, March 2003.
  2. H. Pozidis, W. Haberle, D. Wiesmann, U. Drechsler, M. Despont, T.R. Albrecht, E. Eleftheriou, “Demonstration of thermomechanical recording at 641 Gbit/in2,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 2531-2536, July 2004.
  3. A. Sebastian, A. Pantazi, S. O. R. Moheimani, H. Pozidis, and E. Eleftheriou, “Achieving sub-nanometer precision in a MEMS storage device during self-servo write process,” IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, Vol.. 7, No. 5, pp. 586-595, Sep. 2008.
  4. A. Sebastian, A. Pantazi, H. Pozidis, and E. Eleftheriou, “Nanopositioning for Probe-based Data Storage,” IEEE Control Systems Magazine, pp. 26-35, 2008.
  5. A. Pantazi, A. Sebastian, T. Antonakopoulos, P. Bächtold, T. Bonaccio, J. Bonan, G. Cherubini, M. Despont, R. A. DiPietro, U. Drechsler, U. Dürig, W. Häberle, C. Hagleitner, J. L. Hedrick, D. Jubin, A. Knoll, M. A. Lantz, J. Pentarakis, H. Pozidis, R. C. Pratt, H. Rothuizen, R. Stutz, M. Varsamou, D. Wiesmann, and E. Eleftheriou, “Probe-based ultra-high density storage technology,” IBM Journal of Research and Development, vol. 52, no. 4/5, July/September 2008.
  6. A. Pantazi, A. Sebastian, G. Cherubini, M. Lantz, H. Pozidis, H. Rothuizen and E. Eleftheriou, “Control of MEMS-based Scanning-probe Data Storage Device,” IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 824-841, September 2007.
  7. A. Sebastian and D. Wiesmann, “Modeling and Experimental Identification of Silicon Micro-heaters: A Systems Approach,” IEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 911-920, 2008.
  8. H. Pozidis, P. Bächtold, G. Cherubini, E. Eleftheriou, C. Hagleitner, A. Pantazi, A. Sebastian, “Signal Processing for probe storage,” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing – ICASSP 2005, Philadelphia, PA, USA, March 18-23, 2005.
  9. A. Sebastian, A. Pantazi, and H. Pozidis, “Jitter investigation and performance evaluation of a small-scale probe storage device prototype,” IEEE Global Communications Conference, November 2007, pp. 288-293.
  10. D. R. Sahoo, W. Haeberle, P. Baechtold, H. Pozidis and E. Eleftheriou, “On intermittent-contact mode sensing using electrostatically-actuated micro-cantilevers with integrated thermal sensors,” Proceedings of American Control Conference, p. 2034, June, 2008.
  11. H. Bhaskaran, A. Sebastian and M. Despont, “Nanoscale PtSi tips for conductive probe technologies,” IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology (in press).

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