摘要:
A record carrier for thermomagnetic recording of information and magneto-optical readout of the recorded information. The record carrier includes a substrate and a recording layer thereon in the form of multi-layers of magnetic and non-magnetic material, the magnetic layers predominately containing cobalt and the non-magnetic layers predominantly containing transition metal. The magnetic and non-magnetic layers alternate, and the overall thickness of the complete multi-layer recording layer is less than 75 nm. Such a recording layer achieves a significant improvement in both thermomagnetic write properties and magneto-optical read properties.
摘要:
The invention provides a magnetic recording medium comprising a substrate of a nonmagnetic material bearing a thin magnetic layer with perpendicular anistropy. The magnetic thin layer comprises alternate layers of Pd and Co. The signal-to-noise ratio upon reading the stored information is considerably improved in that the thicknesses of the individual layers of Pd are between 0.2 and 2.0 nm and that the individual layers of Co consist of at least one monolayer of Co atoms and have thicknesses which are smaller than 0.3 nm.The thin magnet layer may be manufactured, for example, by electron beam vacuum vapor deposition of the individual layers of Pd and Co.