摘要:
A method of manufacturing a perpendicular magnetic recording medium is provided which is capable of improving fineness of a particle diameter and vertical orientation of a perpendicular magnetic recording layer, improving corrosion resistance of the magnetic recording medium, and recording and reproducing high-density information. Provided is the method of manufacturing a perpendicular magnetic recording medium (10) of the invention having at least a soft magnetic layer (2), an underlayer (4), an intermediate layer (5), and a perpendicular magnetic recording layer (6) which has a granular magnetic layer including at least an oxide, on a nonmagnetic substrate (1), the method including at least one of: a process of irradiating a surface of the soft magnetic layer with inert gas ions, after forming the soft magnetic layer; a process of irradiating a surface of the intermediate layer with inert gas ions, forming the intermediate layer; and a process of irradiating a surface of the granular magnetic layer with inert gas ions, after forming the granular magnetic layer that constitutes the perpendicular magnetic recording layer.
摘要:
The present invention provides a magnetic recording medium which is capable of improving the perpendicular orientation of a perpendicular magnetic recording layer while maintaining a writing performance during recording and obtaining both an improvement in the perpendicular orientation and fine magnetic crystal particles with a uniform diameter, and which enables information to be recorded or reproduced at high density, a method of manufacturing the same, and a magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus. A magnetic recording medium 10 according to the present invention includes at least a soft magnetic underlayer 2, an orientation control layer 3, a magnetic recording layer 4, and a protective layer 5 formed on a non-magnetic substrate 1. The orientation control layer 3 has a seed layer 6 and an intermediate layer 7. The seed layer 6 is made of a Cu—Ti alloy that has a face-centered cubic structure and includes Cu as a main component. The Cu—Ti alloy has a (111) crystal plane oriented substantially perpendicular to the surface of the non-magnetic substrate 1 and has a pseudo-hexagonal structure.