Abstract:
A granular magnetic recording medium comprises a non-magnetic substrate having a surface, a layer stack on the substrate surface, including an outermost granular magnetic recording layer, a cap layer on the granular magnetic recording layer, having a sputter-etched outer surface, and a protective overcoat layer on the sputter-etched outer surface of the cap layer.
Abstract:
A method of depositing a layer of a coating material (e.g., DLC protective overcoats of magnetic and magneto-optical recording media) on a surface of a substrate/workpiece, the layer including relatively thin and relatively thick regions defining a thickness gradient at a boundary therebetween, comprising steps of: (a) providing a filtered cathodic arc deposition (FCAD) process/treatment chamber comprising a FCAD source including means for providing a focused plasma beam containing ions of a coating material and means for scanning the plasma beam over a substrate/workpiece surface; (b) providing the process/treatment chamber with a substrate/workpiece including a surface for deposition thereon; and (c) forming on the surface a layer of coating material including the relatively thin and relatively thick regions defining the thickness gradient at the boundary therebetween by scanning the plasma beam over at least a portion of the surface.
Abstract:
A method of manufacturing magnetic recording media, comprising sequential steps of: (a) providing an apparatus for manufacturing the media; (b) supplying the apparatus with at least one substrate for the media; (c) forming a magnetic recording layer on the at least one substrate in a first portion of the apparatus, the magnetic recording layer including a surface; (d) treating the surface of the magnetic recording layer with an ionized oxygen-containing plasma in a second portion of the apparatus to form a plasma oxidized surface layer; and (e) forming a protective overcoat layer on the plasma oxidized surface layer of the magnetic recording layer in a third portion of the apparatus.
Abstract:
A system and method for improving the durability and reliability of recording media used in hard drives is disclosed. A protective overcoat made by depositing a diamond like carbon (DLC) layer over a magnetic layer and then depleting the DLC protective layer of hydrogen before it is coated with a Perfluoropolyethers (PFPE) using an in-situ vapor lubrication technique.
Abstract:
A magnetic recording medium with low bonded lubricant at the landing zone, where the head takes off and lands, for better wear resistance, and with high bonded lubricant at the data zone to protect the data from corrosion, and a method of making the same are disclosed.
Abstract:
A compound comprising a backbone with a perfluoropolyether chain. The compound also has one or more cyclophosphazene rings attached to or incorporated into the backbone. The compound further includes at least two functional groups attached to the backbone, attached to the one or more cyclophosphazene rings, or a combination thereof.
Abstract:
A method, in one embodiment, can include pumping a gas into a reservoir that includes a lubricant. In addition, the method can include changing the gas into a supercritical fluid that extracts lubricant molecules from the lubricant resulting in a mixture of the supercritical fluid and the lubricant molecules. Furthermore, the method can include utilizing the mixture to deposit a lubricant molecule onto a magnetic media.
Abstract:
Aspects include recording media with enhanced areal density through reduction of head media spacing, head keeper spacing, or head to soft underlayer spacing. Such aspects comprise replacing currently non-magnetic components of devices, such as interlayers and overcoats with components and compositions comprising magnetic materials. Other aspects relate to magnetic seed layers deposited within a recording medium. Preferably, these aspects, embodied as methods, systems and/or components thereof reduce effective magnetic spacing without sacrificing physical spacing.
Abstract:
A compound comprising a backbone with a perfluoropolyether chain. The compound also has one or more cyclophosphazene rings attached to or incorporated into the backbone. The compound further includes at least two functional groups attached to the backbone, attached to the one or more cyclophosphazene rings, or a combination thereof.