Abstract:
A method of fabricating anisotropic magnetic films includes providing a substrate (18), sputtering a layer (24) of Ni x Fe y (where x ranges from 40 to 50 and y = (100-x)) onto a surface (28) of the substrate, and subjecting the layer of Ni x Fe y to a rotating magnetic field (36) during the sputtering deposition process. A magnetic storage medium comprising a substrate (128), a soft magnetic underlayer (126) supported by the substrate, the soft magnetic underlayer including Ni x Fe y (where x ranges from 40 to 50 and y = (100-x)) and having an easy axis in a circumferential direction and a hard axis in a radial direction, and a magnetically hard recording layer (124) supported by the soft magnetic underlayer, is also included.
Abstract:
A method and system (10) for magnetic recording using self-organized magnetic nanoparticles is disclosed. The method may include depositing surfactant coated nanoparticles (18) on a substrate (16), wherein the surfactant coated nanoparticles (18) represent first bits of recorded information. The surfactant coating (22) is then removed from selected of the surfactant coated nanoparticles (20). The selected nanoparticles (20) with their surfactant coating (22) removed may then be designated to represent second bits of recorded information. The surfactant coated nanoparticles (18) have a first saturation magnetic moment and the selected nanoparticles (20) with the surfactant coating (22) removed have a second saturation magnetic moment. Therefore, by selectively removing the surfactant coating (22) from certain nanoparticles (20), a write operation for recording the first and second bits of information may be performed. A read operation may be carried out by detecting the different magnetic moments of the surfactant coated nanoparticles (18) and the non-surfactant coated nanoparticles (20).