TMRC 2017:

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  The 28th Magnetic Recording Conference (TMRC 2017) will be held on August 2 - 4, 2017 at the Tsukuba International Congress Center (EPOCHAL TSUKUBA) in Tsukuba, Japan.
  TMRC 2017 will focus on future magnetic storage technologies for hard disk drives and solid state memories. 38 invited papers of the highest quality will be presented orally at the conference and will later be published in the IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. Poster sessions will also be held consecutive to the oral sessions and will feature posters from the invited speakers and accepted contributed posters. Both invited and contributed papers are encouraged for publication.
TMRC2017's Program
& Digests Book
(PDF: 7.91MB)
  Topics of interest include:

  • Advanced Magnetic Recording for > 2 Tbits/in2 including Readers, Writers, Servo, Tribology, HDI, Signal Processing.
  • Two-Dimensional Magnetic Recording (TDMR)
  • Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR)
  • Heated Dot Magnetic Recording (HDMR)
  • Magnetic Solid State Memory (MRAM, STT-RAM, Racetrack)
  • Alternative Magnetic Recording Technologies (SMR, MAMR, Tape, All Optical Switching)
  • Magnetic Solid State Memory (MRAM, STT-MRAM, VC-MRAM, SOT-MRAM)
  • Fundamentals (Metrology, Tooling, Materials, Recording Physics)
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    2017.8.17
    TMRC2017 statistics and survey is uploaded.
    2017.8.7
    It brought together over 260 participants. Thank you all for your time!!
    You can see some photos of TMRC2017 at here.
    2017.8.4
    "Best Poster Award" is presented to the following presenters. Congratulations!!
  • Session BP: Jiamin CHEN et al., University of Tsukuba
  • Session DP: K. MUKAIYAMA et al., National Institute for Materials and Science (NIMS)
    • 2017.7.31
    Program has been updated.
  • Speaker (D1): Julius Hohlfeld => Huaqing Yin
  • Speaker (D2): Greg Parker => Lei XU
  • Speaker (E3): Rie Sato => H. Suto
  • Session Chairs (Session#A) : Ganping Ju => Eric KC Chang and Pin-Wei Huang

    • Schedule & Important Date:

    (TMRC 2017's Flier)
  • February 6, 2017: Deadline for Invited Speaker Nominations
  • March 10, 2017: Deadline for Contributed Posters Submissions
  • April 17, 2017: Deadline for Invited Talks and Poster Digests
  • May 18, 2017: Early Registration Opens, Application for Student Travel Awards Opens
  • June 19, 2017: Deadline for manuscript submission to IEEE Manuscript Central Website
  • June 28, 2017: Deadline for Student Travel Award Applications
  • July 3, 2017: Early Registration Closes
  • August 2 - 4, 2017: The 28th Magnetic Recording Conference

    • Best Poster Award:

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    Session BP
    Jiamin CHEN et al.,
    University of Tsukuba and NIMS
    Session DP
    K. MUKAIYAMA et al.,
    National Institute for Materials and Science (NIMS)

    Photo Gallery:

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    (Welcome)

    (Convention Hall 200)

    (Coffee Break)

    (Poster Session)

    (Poster Session)

    (Group Photo)

    (Banquet)

    (Banquet)

    (Poster Award to Mr. J. Chen)

    (Poster Award to Dr. K. Mukaiyama)
    (Prof. Shun-ichi Iwasaki and Dr. Roger Wood)
    (Keynote Talk by Dr. Hirofumi Nagai)

    For Invited Speakers:

     - 25 minutes talk and 5 minutes question and answer session.

     - Projector interface has only VGA(D-Sub 15) connection. Please bring the adapter to plug into VGA cable if needed.

     - The screen aspect ratio is 4:3.

    For Poster Presenters:

     - Posters should be no more than size of poster board which is 85cm Wide by 200cm High. Poster boards provided for poster sessions have tack board surfaces. Thumbtacks will be provided. Please consult program for day and time when poster is scheduled for presentation.

     - Best poster presentation will be selected in each poster session for 20,000 JPY cash award and a certificate.

     - Please put up and take off your poster on the designated board at Multi Purpose Hall at the following timeslot:

  • Session BP
    •     [PUT UP] 8:15AM – before Lunch Break on Aug 2nd(Wed)
        [TAKE OFF] 7:00PM – 8:00PM on Aug 2nd(Wed)
  • Session DP
    •     [PUT UP] 8:30AM – before Lunch Break on Aug 3rd(Thr)
        [TAKE OFF] 6:40PM – before Lunch Break on Aug 4th(Fri)
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