摘要:
A magnetic recording medium for high areal recording density that has excellent thermal fluctuation resistance and recording/reproduction characteristics, and a method of producing the same. The magnetic recording medium includes a glass substrate, an NiP layer having an oxide film on its surface provided on the glass substrate, a ground layer provided on the NiP layer, and a nonmagnetic intermediate layer provided on the ground layer. The magnetic recording medium further includes an exchange layer structure composed of a ferromagnetic layer and a nonmagnetic coupling layer provided on the nonmagnetic intermediate layer, and a magnetic recording layer provided on the exchange layer structure. The oxide film on the NiP layer is formed by introducing a small quantity of oxygen into a vacuum chamber of a sputter device. The formation and oxidation of the NiP layer are conducted at a temperature of not less than 140° C.
摘要:
There is provided a magnetic storage medium capable of recording information at high recording density and also regenerating the information with a high quality of signal (high S/Nm), and in addition contributing to the elongation of a life span of the recorded information. The magnetic storage medium comprises a non-magnetic substrate, a plurality of magnetic recording layers of ferromagnetism formed on the non-magnetic substrate, and a dividing layer of antiferromagnetism for dividing said plurality of magnetic recording layers from one another through intervening between the magnetic recording layer-to-layer.
摘要:
A glass substrate for a magnetic recording medium has a textured surface having numerous grooves extending in the circumferential direction of the glass substrate. The average roughness of the textured surface is 0.4 nm or less. The number of the grooves is 15 or more per micrometer. The average depth of the grooves is 2 nm or less. The grooves are formed by mechanical texturing using a texturing liquid applied between a texturing tape and the surface of a blank glass substrate rotating. The texturing liquid is an aqueous dispersion of fine diamond abrasive grains.
摘要:
A gold alloy wire in which 0.2 to 5.0% by weight of palladium (Pd) and 1 to 100 ppm by weight of bismuth (Bi) are added to gold having a purity of at least 99.99% by weight. Preferably, at least one element selected from the group consisting of yttrium (Y), lanthanum (La), calcium (Ca) and beryllium (Bi) in an amount of 3 to 250 ppm by weight is further added to said gold. The gold alloy wire is especially adapted to forming a gold bump.
摘要:
A non-magnetic substrate, a Cu layer having a film thickness ranging from 0.5 to 10 nm, a Cr layer having a film thickness of 100 nm or less, a magnetic layer made of CoCrPt alloy in which a percentage content of Cr ranges from 12 atoms % to 20 atoms % and a percentage content of Pt ranges from 4 atoms % to 18 atoms %, a protective layer and a lubricating layer are arranged in that order to form a magnetic recording medium. Because the Cu layer is sufficiently thinned, a medium noise is sufficiently reduced, and a medium S/N ratio is sufficiently heightened. Because the film thickness of the Cr layer is 100 nm or less, the medium noise is reduced. Because the composition of CoCrPt alloy is limited in the magnetic layer, the medium S/N ratio is heightened. In addition, it is preferred that another Cu layer having a film thickness ranging from 0.5 to 10 nm be inserted into the magnetic layer to divide the magnetic layer into two layers. In this case, the medium noise is reduced by 20%, and the medium S/N ratio is heightened. Therefore, even though a magnetoresistive effect type magnetic head is used to record or reproduce information in/from the magnetic recording medium, the medium noise is sufficiently reduced, and the medium R/N ratio is sufficiently heightened.
摘要:
A magnetic read head has a first free-magnetic layer, a second free-magnetic layer, a non-magnetic layer provided between the first free-magnetic layer and the second free-magnetic layer, and a bias applying layer for applying a bias magnetic field in the vertical direction to the medium facing plane of the first free-magnetic layer and the second free-magnetic layer. Shape anisotropies of magnetization of the first free-magnetic layer and the second free-magnetic layer are inclined in the opposite direction with each other for the medium facing plane within film surfaces of respective free-magnetic layers. The first free-magnetic layer and the second free-magnetic layer are overlapped at the medium facing plane in the vertical direction at the surfaces of respective free-magnetic layer films, and the bias applying layer is located on the opposite plane to the medium facing plane of the first free-magnetic layer and the second free-magnetic layer.
摘要:
A magnetic head increases the magnetic field strength just below a write gap 14 and thereby improves the recording resolution of a medium. To do so, an upper magnetic pole 10 and a lower magnetic pole 12 are disposed facing one another with the write gap 14 in between, with an end surface of the lower magnetic pole 12 being I-shaped and an end surface of the upper magnetic pole being T-shaped due to the upper magnetic pole 10 being formed of a first upper magnetic pole 10a that is disposed facing the lower magnetic pole 12 and is formed in an I shape that is shorter than the lower magnetic pole 12 and a second upper magnetic pole 10b that is joined to the first upper magnetic pole 10a and is formed wider than the first upper magnetic pole 10a.
摘要:
In the magnetic head, a lower shielding layer and an upper shielding layer of a read-head and a lower magnetic pole of a write-head are electrically connected to a substrate so as to prevent damage of an MR element caused by static electricity and so as not to badly influence reading characteristics of a read-head. The magnetic head comprises: a read-head having a lower shielding layer and an upper shielding layer, which are electrically connected to a substrate via a shunt resistance; and a write-head having a lower magnetic pole, which is electrically connected to the substrate via the shunt resistance, wherein the lower shielding layer and the upper shielding layer are electrically connected to the substrate via a conductive layer, and the lower magnetic pole is electrically connected to the substrate via a conductive layer, which is formed as a base layer of the lower magnetic pole.
摘要:
The magnetic sensor is capable of improving variations of output power and asymmetric diversity of output signals of a magnetoresistance effect element. The magnetic sensor comprises hard films sandwiching the magnetoresistance effect element, and the hard films apply bias magnetic fields to the magnetoresistance effect element. Each of the hard films includes: a wide section, whose thickness in a height-direction is higher than that of the magnetoresistance effect film; and a link section, whose thickness in the height-direction is gradually reduced toward the magnetoresistance effect element, being extended from the wide section to a side face of the magnetoresistance effect element.
摘要:
The perpendicular magnetic head is capable of solving the problems of side track erasing and pole erasing. The perpendicular magnetic head of the present invention comprises a write-head, which includes a main magnetic pole emitting magnetic fluxes toward a recording medium. An end face of a pole end is formed into a T-shape. A longitudinal pole section of the pole end is made of a low Bs magnetic thin film, whose end face is formed into a rectangle. A transverse pole section of the pole end is made of a high Bs magnetic thin film, whose end face is formed into a rectangle. The low Bs magnetic thin film and the high Bs magnetic thin film are determined by the formula: (area of the end face of the low Bs magnetic thin film)×(saturation magnetic flux density of the low Bs magnetic thin film)>(area of the end face of the high Bs magnetic thin film)×(saturation magnetic flux density of the high Bs magnetic thin film).