1. A method of recording on an optical disc recording media, said method comprising the steps of:
transferring stored input information from an input buffer to an encoder;
transferring encoded information from said encoder to a record circuit;
causing said input buffer to contain less than a threshold amount of said input information; and
when said input buffer contains less than the threshold amount of said input information, pausing said transferring of said encoded information, to stop said record circuit at a first point on said optical disk recording media while maintaining said encoded information within said encoder.
2. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of causing said input buffer to contain at least a second threshold amount of information, and resuming said step of transferring said encoded information to said record circuit, to thereby restart said record circuit while maintaining data succession across said first point on said optical disc recording media.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein said threshold amounts are not equal.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein said encoded information is interleave encoded.
5. The method of claim 4, wherein said encoded information is CIRC encoded.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein said optical disc recording media is a CD-R media.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein said optical disc recording media is a CD-RW media.
8. The method of claim 1, wherein said input information is data.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein said input information is digital audio.
10. A method of recording on an optical disc recording media, said method comprising the steps of:
transferring stored input information from an input buffer to an encoder;
transferring encoded information from said encoder to a record circuit;
causing said input buffer to contain less than a threshold amount of said input information;
when said input buffer contains less than the threshold amount of said input information, pausing said transferring of said encoded information, to stop said record circuit at a first point on said optical disk recording media while maintaining said encoded information within said encoder; and
when said input buffer contains at least the threshold amount of information, resuming said step of transferring said encoded information to said record circuit, to thereby restart said record circuit while maintaining data succession across said first point on said optical disc recording media.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A method comprising:
depositing a plasmonic material at a temperature of at least 150\xb0 C.; and
forming at least a peg of a near field transducer (NFT) from the deposited plasmonic material.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the plasmonic material is deposited at a temperature of at least 175\xb0 C.
3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the plasmonic material is deposited at a temperature of at least 180\xb0 C.
4. The method according to claim 1, wherein forming at least the peg of the NFT comprises patterning a peg with an oxide or amorphous carbon.
5. The method according to claim 1 further comprising forming at least a disk of the NFT from a material deposited at a temperature of at least 150\xb0 C.
6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the material deposited to form the disk is deposited in a different step than the material deposited to form the peg.
7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the plasmonic material is sputter deposited.
8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the plasmonic material comprises gold (Au), silver (Ag), copper (Cu), aluminum (Al), or an alloy thereof.
9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the near field transducer comprises gold (Au), or an alloy thereof.
10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the material is not annealed.
11. The method according to claim 1, wherein the peg has an average grain size of at least about 50 nm.
12. A method comprising:
depositing a plasmonic material at a temperature of at least 150\xb0 C.; and
forming at least a peg of a near field transducer (NFT) from the deposited plasmonic material,
wherein neither the deposited material is annealed nor the peg is annealed once formed, and the peg has an average grain size of not less than 50 nm.
13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the deposited plasmonic material comprises gold (Au) or an alloy thereof.
14. The method according to claim 12 further comprising forming at least a disk from a material deposited at a temperature of at least 150\xb0 C.