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Major Career Accomplishments

  • Awarded 160 issued patents

  • Published 55 technical publications

  • Awarded the 2013 IEEE Magnetics Society Achievement Award

  • Invented the Shielded Pole perpendicular write head, which has been manufactured in all disk drives since 2007, because of the larger capacity increase it gives computers (USPat. #4,656,546)

  • Conceived of Lower Bit Aspect Ratios for higher capacity disk drives (see publications [15] & [22])

  • Invented the Diamond inductive head (more than 40,000,000 shipped, USPat. #5,184,267)

  • Invented spherical aberration correction for 2 Photon Recording on thick media (USPat. #7,593,305)

Dr. Michael L. Mallary, Ph.D., IEEE Fellow

 

The IEEE Magnetics Society awarded the 2013 Achievement Award to Dr. Michael Mallary "for sustained contributions to thin film magnetic recording write head designs; most notably for the invention of the shielded write head structure for perpendicular recording."

 

 

Consulting on Magnetic Recording, Magnetic Systems, Optics, and Physics

DEGREES

Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1972, High Energy Physics

S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1966, Physics

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