Patent ID: 7050320
Filing Date: 2006-05-23
Classification: B82Y,G11B,G11C

Abstract:
1. An apparatus, comprising: a storage medium having two or more data storage material islands organized in an array, one or more data storage material islands being electrically isolated from other data storage material islands in the array; a MEMS platform having two or more probes, where at least one of the probes corresponds to one or more of the data storage material islands; and a mover system to position the MEMS platform relative to the storage medium to a selected area of the storage medium by applying a positioning force to the MEMS platform with respect to the storage medium; wherein data bits may be concurrently written to a first group of data storage material islands in the selected area by applying a write signal to the first group of data storage material islands with respect to a forcing function applied to the probes, and wherein a data bits may be unchanged for a second group of data storage material islands in the selected area by applying a hold signal that is within a predetermined threshold of the forcing function applied to the probes.