Patterned media may be made by depositing continuous-film perpendicular media on DVD-like pre-patterned plastic substrates, using ebeam or imprinting lithography [1,2]. Media will deposit on bit tops and also in substrate trenches (Fig. 1). The trench media can produce significant playback signals, since the maximum trench depth is comparable to the bit size - a lithographic minimum feature size requirement.
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