摘要:
The quantity of oxide contained in a magnetic layer is controlled to control the crystal grains and the segregation structure for ensuring low noise characteristic in a granular magnetic layer of a perpendicular magnetic recording medium. The granular magnetic layer consists of ferromagnetic crystal grains and a nonmagnetic grain boundary region mainly of an oxide surrounding the ferromagnetic crystal grains. The perpendicular magnetic recording medium has a nonmagnetic underlayer composed of a metal or alloy having hexagonal closest-packed crystal structure. The ferromagnetic crystal grain is composed of an alloy containing at least cobalt and platinum. The volume proportion of the nonmagnetic grain boundary region mainly of the oxide falls within a range of 15% to 40% of the volume of the total magnetic layer.
摘要:
A manufacturing method for a magnetic recording medium is disclosed. By using the method, the anisotropic magnetic field (Hk) of an underlayer is improved, spike noise generated in the soft magnetic underlayer is suppressed, and the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is improved without employing a special layer configuration and without the need for complicated and expensive processing. A soft magnetic underlayer is formed by laminating a soft magnetic lower underlayer, a non-magnetic metal layer, and a soft magnetic upper underlayer in succession on a non-magnetic substrate. After forming the non-magnetic metal layer, its surface is exposed to a gas containing between 2 and 100 at % oxygen. A perpendicular magnetic recording layer is formed on the soft magnetic underlayer.
摘要:
A magnetic recording medium and a manufacturing method therefore includes a protective film, a nonmagnetic substrate, a nonmagnetic base layer, a nonmagnetic intermediate layer, a magnetic layer, and a liquid lubricant layer. The nonmagnetic base layer has a body-centered cubic structure and a (200) plane including a crystal-orientation parallel with a surface of the protective film. The nonmagnetic intermediate layer has a hexagonal close-packed structure and a (110) plane including a crystal-orientation parallel with the surface of the protective film. The magnetic layer has a granular structure including hexagonal close-packed ferromagnetic crystal grains and oxide-based nonmagnetic grain boundaries surrounding the ferromagnetic crystal grains. The nonmagnetic base layer, the nonmagnetic intermediate layer, the magnetic layer, the protective film, and the liquid lubricant layer are sequentially stacked on the nonmagnetic substrate.
摘要:
There is provided a perpendicular magnetic recording medium according to which both the thermal stability of the magnetization is good and writing with a magnetic head is easy, and moreover the SNR is improved. In the case of a perpendicular magnetic recording medium comprising a nonmagnetic substratel, and at least a nonmagnetic underlayer 2, a magnetic recording layer 3 and a protective layer 4 formed in this order on the nonmagnetic substrate 1, the magnetic recording layer 3 comprises a low Ku region 31 layer having a perpendicular magnetic anisotropy constant (Ku value) of not more than 1×105 erg/cm3, and a high Ku region 32 layer having a Ku value of at least 1×106 erg/cm3. Moreover, the magnetic recording layer 3 is made to have therein nonmagnetic grain boundaries that contain a nonmagnetic oxide and magnetically isolate crystal grains, which are made of a ferromagnetic metal, from one another.
摘要翻译:提供了一种垂直磁记录介质,根据该磁记录介质,磁化的热稳定性都很好,并且用磁头进行写入容易,此外SNR提高。 在包括非磁性基底层的至少一个非磁性底层2,磁记录层3和保护层4的垂直磁记录介质的情况下,磁记录层3包括低磁性层 具有不大于1×10 5 erg / cm 3的垂直磁各向异性常数(K u值)的K u区域31层 和具有至少1×10 6个/ cm 2以上的K值的高K区域32层, 3 SUP>。 此外,使磁记录层3具有包含非磁性氧化物的非磁性晶界,并且将由铁磁性金属制成的晶粒彼此磁分离。
摘要:
In a magnetic recording medium, a plurality of non-magnetic metallic intermediate layers is laminated between an under-layer and a magnetic layer. One of the intermediate layers is composed of at least an element selected from the group consisting of Ru, Re and Os and contains oxygen, and another is composed of a CoCr alloy containing at least an element selected from the group consisting of Nb, Mo, Ru, Rh, Pd, Ta, W, Re Os, Ir and Pt. The resulting magnetic recording medium provides reduced costs and improved recording characteristics.
摘要:
A perpendicular magnetic recording medium has a granular magnetic layer and a nonmagnetic underlayer of a metal or an alloy having a hexagonal close packed (hcp) crystal structure. A seed layer of a metal or an alloy of a face-centered cubic (fcc) crystal structure is provided under the nonmagnetic underlayer. Such a perpendicular magnetic recording medium exhibits excellent magnetic characteristics even when the thickness of the underlayer or the total thickness of the underlayer and the seed layer is very thin. Excellent magnetic characteristics can be obtained even when of the substrate is not preheated. Accordingly, a nonmagnetic substrate, such as a plastic resin can be employed to reduce the manufacturing cost.
摘要:
The present invention provides a sputtering target for production of a magnetic recording medium including at least a nonmagnetic undercoat layer, a magnetic layer, and a protective layer laminated sequentially on a nonmagnetic substrate, the sputtering target being used for film formation of the magnetic layer, the sputtering target comprising a mixture of a metal and an oxide, and the particle diameter of the oxide in the sputtering target being 10 &mgr;m or less. The sputtering target suppresses abnormal discharge occurring during film formation of a granular magnetic layer of the magnetic recording medium, and suppresses occurrence of foreign objects on the magnetic recording medium.
摘要:
A magnetic recording medium, and method of manufacturing the same, is provided with excellent recording performance by employing a granular magnetic layer having a specified composition. A magnetic recording medium according to the present invention comprises a nonmagnetic underlayer, a granular magnetic layer, a protective film, and a liquid lubrication layer sequentially laminated on a nonmagnetic substrate. The granular magnetic layer consists of ferromagnetic crystal grains containing cobalt and nonmagnetic grain boundary region surrounding the ferromagnetic crystal grains. The ferromagnetic crystal grains contain platinum in the range of 15 at % to 17 at %.
摘要:
A perpendicular magnetic recording medium is disclosed in which a soft magnetic layer used as a low Ku layer can be stably produced with high performance. Thermal stabilization of magnetization, ease of writing by a magnetic head, and SNR also are improved. A method of manufacturing the medium is disclosed. The perpendicular magnetic recording medium includes at least a nonmagnetic underlayer, a magnetic recording layer, and a protective layer formed in this order on a nonmagnetic substrate. The magnetic recording layer includes a low Ku layer having a relatively small perpendicular magnetic anisotropy constant (Ku value), and a high Ku layer in which the Ku value is relatively large, and the low Ku layer includes a soft magnetic thin film including an iron group element-based microcrystal structure, in which a nitrogen element is added to a ferromagnetic material mainly containing one of metals of Co, Ni and Fe or an alloy of the metal. The thin film has a crystal structure of a face-centered cubic lattice or hexagonal close packed, and a preferred crystal orientation plane parallel to a plane of the film is a (111) plane in the face-centered cubic lattice structure, and a (002) plane in the hexagonal close packed structure.
摘要:
A magnetic recording medium exhibiting low noise and having a sufficiently high coercive force includes a magnetic layer having a granular structure including ferromagnetic crystal grains with a hexagonal closed packed structure and a nonmagnetic grain boundary region of mainly an oxide intervening between the crystal grains. An underlayer has a body-centered cubic lattice structure. A nonmagnetic intermediate layer with the hexagonal closest packed structure includes Ru, Os, and/or Re, which are provided between the magnetic layer and the underlayer. A degree of mismatching Δ=|d1−d2|/d1 is at most 10%, for instance, in a range from 2.5% to 7.0%, where d1 is a spacing of lattice planes of the crystal grains in the magnetic layer and d2 is a spacing of the lattice planes of the crystal grains in the intermediate layer. A proportion of the crystal grains with a grain size of equal or greater than 8 nm are at most 10% of the crystal grains included in the intermediate layer and a standard deviation of the grain size is at most 1.4 nm. The layers are deposited without preheating the substrate.