摘要:
A perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) media including a non-magnetic or superparamagnetic grain isolation magnetic anisotropy layer (GIMAL) to provide a template for initially well-isolated small grain microstructure as well as improvement of Ku in core grains of a magnetic recording layer. The GIMAL composition may be adjusted to have lattice parameters similar to a bottom magnetic recording layer and to provide a buffer for reducing interface strains caused by lattice mismatch between the bottom magnetic recording layer and an underlying layer.
摘要:
A magnetic recording (PMR) disk structure is described. The PMR disk structure may include a magnetic capping layer being substantially free of an oxide, an upper magnetic layer with an oxide content disposed directly below and in contact with the magnetic capping layer, and an upper exchange coupling layer disposed below the upper magnetic layer.
摘要:
A perpendicular recording medium having a perpendicular magnetic recording layer and a magnetically soft underlayer structure disposed beneath the recording layer. The soft underlayer structure includes at least first and second soft magnetic layers having different magnetic permeabilities to create a magnetic permeability gradient in the soft underlayer structure. One or more of the soft magnetic layers can be anti-parallel coupled. The soft underlayer structure of the present invention having a magnetic permeability gradient advantageously leads to reduced adjacent track erasure (ATE) while maintaining good overwrite (OW) properties.
摘要:
A magnetic recording medium is constructed to include a lower magnetic layer, a nonmagnetic spacer layer disposed on the lower magnetic layer, and an upper magnetic layer disposed on the nonmagnetic spacer layer, where the upper and lower magnetic layers are antiferromagnetically coupled. The lower magnetic layer comprises a stabilization layer and a lower enhancement layer disposed between the stabilization layer and the nonmagnetic spacer layer, and the stabilization layer and the lower enhancement layer are ferromagnetically exchange coupled. The stabilization layer and the lower enhancement layer are made of CoCr alloys such that a Pt content of the stabilization layer is higher than that of the lower enhancement layer.
摘要:
A magnetic storage medium includes first and second magnetic layers provided on a support substrate such that the first and second magnetic layers have respective first and second magnetizations in an anti-parallel relationship in a state no substantial writing magnetic field is applied. The first and second magnetizations are changed to a parallel relationship when a writing magnetic field is applied to the magnetic storage medium, and the first and second magnetizations are changed to the anti-parallel relationship as a result of a magnetic reversal caused in the second magnetic layer with diminishing of the writing magnetic field. The reversal is caused as a result of the action of a reversing magnetic field that dominates before the writing magnetic field is diminished and becomes zero.