Dec. 2, 2004 – EV Group (EVG) and Komag Inc. have teamed up to develop, license and sell what they say is the first high-volume nanoimprint lithography application for mass data storage.
Austria-based EVG and San Jose, Calif.-based Komag said in a news release that the product would be based on the EVG570PMI hot embossing system, a fabrication tool for the aligned double-sided imprinting of patterned media. Komag brings its expertise in thin-film disks, which includes a nanoimprint lithography-based, proof-of-principle discrete track recording patterned magnetic disk.