About the Authors

Nissim Amos

Nissim.Amos@ee.ucr.edu

Affiliation Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

John Butler

Affiliation Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Beomseop Lee

Affiliation Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Meir H. Shachar

Affiliation Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Bing Hu

Affiliation Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Yuan Tian

Affiliation Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Jeongmin Hong

Affiliation Department of Electrical Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Davil Garcia

Affiliation Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Rabee M. Ikkawi

Affiliation Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Robert C. Haddon

Affiliation Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Dmitri Litvinov

Affiliation Center for Nanomagnetic Systems, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Sakhrat Khizroev

Affiliations Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America, Department of Electrical Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following conflicts: Patent Application on Three Dimensional Magnetic Recording: Application number: 12/506,042; Publication number: US 2010/0149676 A1; Filing date: Jul 20, 2009. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NA BL MS RI SK. Performed the experiments: NA JB BL MS BH YT JH DG. Analyzed the data: NA BL MS DL SK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RH SK. Wrote the paper: NA MS SK.