Models of the longitudinal digital magnetic recording process in thin films

1991 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 3563-3569 ◽  
Author(s):  
B.K. Middleton
Author(s):  
L. Tang ◽  
G. Thomas ◽  
M. R. Khan ◽  
S. L. Duan

Cr thin films are often used as underlayers for Co alloy magnetic thin films, such as Co1, CoNi2, and CoNiCr3, for high density longitudinal magnetic recording. It is belived that the role of the Cr underlayer is to control the growth and texture of the Co alloy magnetic thin films, and, then, to increase the in plane coercivity of the films. Although many epitaxial relationship between the Cr underlayer and the magnetic films, such as ﹛1010﹜Co/ {110﹜Cr4, ﹛2110﹜Co/ ﹛001﹜Cr5, ﹛0002﹜Co/﹛110﹜Cr6, have been suggested and appear to be related to the Cr thickness, the texture of the Cr underlayer itself is still not understood very well. In this study, the texture of a 2000 Å thick Cr underlayer on Nip/Al substrate for thin films of (Co75Ni25)1-xTix dc-sputtered with - 200 V substrate bias is investigated by electron microscopy.


1993 ◽  
Vol 74 (11) ◽  
pp. 7019-7021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandip Dhara ◽  
A. C. Rastogi ◽  
B. K. Das

1998 ◽  
Vol 31 (9) ◽  
pp. 553-560 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.D. Bijker ◽  
E.M. Visser ◽  
J.C. Lodder

2010 ◽  
Vol 123-125 ◽  
pp. 27-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chih Long Shen ◽  
Po Cheng Kuo ◽  
S.C. Chen ◽  
C.D. Chen ◽  
S.L. Hsu ◽  
...  

The Co3Pt magnetic layer with thickness of 7~28 nm was deposited onto the Pt underlayer. The as-deposited Co3Pt/Pt double-layered films with or without a 5 nm Pt capped layer were annealed at temperatures between 275 and 375 °C in vacuum of 1 mTorr. The influences of process parameters on perpendicular magnetic properties of Co3Pt thin films were investigated. The Co3Pt film with perpendicular coercivity (Hc⊥) value of 3620 Oe and the perpendicular squareness (S⊥) of 0.7 could be achieved from the Co3Pt(18 nm)/Pt(100 nm) double-layered films by annealing at 300°C. Further added Tb30Co70 film on the Co3Pt/Pt double-layered film could greatly enhance the perpendicular magnetic properties of the film. The Hc⊥ and S⊥ of the Tb30Co70/Co3Pt/Pt film were as high as 6560 Oe and 0.88, respectively, which has significant potential to be applied in perpendicular magnetic recording media.


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