Stanley Charap
IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Storage Device Technology Award
Sponsored by Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
The IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Data Storage Device Technology Award is sponsored
by Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and recognizes outstanding contributions
to the advancement of information storage with emphasis on technical contributions
in computer data storage device technology.
[This award honors] Stanley Charap. He is being recognized “for quantative
prediction of the superparamagnetic limit for magnetic recording.”
By identifying the fundamental physics that limits the continued increase of
disk drive capacity, Stanley H. Charap was able to quantitatively predict area
density limitations using sophisticated micromagnetic modeling. His research
work was deemed so critical in overcoming superparamagnetic limitations that
it jumpstarted an extensive research effort in hard disk drive industry that
continues to this day. As a result, the industry has implemented an innovative
architecture using improved materials that overcome these limitations.Today,
perpendicular recording enables increased capacity far beyond that originally
predicted.
An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Charap holds a bachelor’s from Brooklyn College, N.Y.,
and a doctorate from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., both in physics.
Bruce Gurney
Chairman, Awards Committee, IEEE Magnetics Society
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