摘要:
A method of manufacturing a magnetic recording medium comprises sequential steps of: (a) providing an apparatus for manufacturing the medium; (b) supplying the apparatus with a substrate for the medium; (c) forming a magnetic recording layer on the substrate in a first portion of the apparatus; (d) treating the magnetic recording layer with oxygen gas in a second portion of the apparatus at a sub-atmospheric pressure and for an interval sufficient to provide the resultant medium with at least one of the following, relative to a similar medium manufactured by a similar method but wherein the oxygen treatment of step (d) is not performed: (i) a more negative nucleation field (Hn); (ii) increased remanent squareness (Sr); (iii) increased signal-to-medium noise ratio (SMNR); (iv) narrower switching field distribution (SFD); and (v) decreased thermal decay rate; and (e) forming a protective overcoat layer on the oxygen-treated magnetic recording layer in a third portion of the apparatus.
摘要翻译:制造磁记录介质的方法包括以下步骤:(a)提供用于制造介质的装置; (b)向该设备供应介质用基板; (c)在所述装置的第一部分中在所述基板上形成磁记录层; (d)在亚大气压下在装置的第二部分中用氧气处理磁记录层,并且间隔足以使所得介质具有以下至少一种:相对于由 类似的方法,但是其中不执行步骤(d)的氧处理:(i)更负的成核场(H n n N); (ii)增加的剩余平方度(S SUB); (iii)增加的信噪比(SMNR); (iv)较窄的开关场分布(SFD); 和(v)降低热衰减率; 和(e)在设备的第三部分中在经氧处理的磁记录层上形成保护性外涂层。
摘要:
A perpendicular magnetic recording medium having a substrate and a magnetic underlayer on the substrate, the magnetic underlayer having an easy axis of magnetization substantially directed in a radial or transverse direction, and a process for manufacturing the perpendicular magnetic recording medium are disclosed.
摘要:
A low noise, high areal recording density, perpendicular magnetic recording medium comprises: (a) a non-magnetic substrate having a surface; and (b) a layer stack formed over the substrate surface, the layer stack comprising, in overlying sequence from the substrate surface: (i) a magnetically soft underlayer; (ii) at least one non-magnetic interlayer; and (iii) a CoCr-based, magnetically hard perpendicular recording layer; wherein the compositions of the at least one non-magnetic interlayer and the CoCr-based, magnetically hard perpendicular recording layer are selected to provide the medium with a negative nucleation field Hn, remanent squareness of about 1, and high coercivity of at least about 5,000 Oe. A method for manufacturing the medium by means of DC magnetron sputtering of layers (i)-(iii) is also disclosed.
摘要:
A perpendicular magnetic recording medium having a substrate, a seedlayer on the substrate and a magnetic underlayer on the seedlayer, the magnetic underlayer having an easy axis of magnetization substantially directed in a radial or transverse direction, and a process for manufacturing the perpendicular magnetic recording medium are disclosed.