Patent ID: 8488436

Claim:
A data storage device, comprising: a recording medium comprising a layer of polyaryletherketone resin overlying a substrate, in which topographical states of said layer of said polyaryletherketone resin represent data, said polyaryletherketone resin comprising a thermally cured mixture of one or more polyaryletherketone copolymers, each of said one or more polyaryletherketone copolymers independently comprising a first monomer, a second monomer, a first terminal end and a second terminal end, the first monomer including an aryl ether ketone, the second monomer including a first phenylethynyl moiety, the first terminal end including a second phenylethynyl moiety and the second terminal end including a third phenylethynyl moiety; a head having one or more thermo-mechanical probes, each of said one or more thermo-mechanical probes including a resistive region for locally heating a tip of said thermo-mechanical probe in response to electrical current being applied to said one or more thermo-mechanical probes; and a scanning system for scanning said head across a surface of said recording medium.