Advanced Soft Magnetic Materials for Magnetic Recording Heads and Integrated Inductors

Advanced Soft Magnetic Materials for Magnetic Recording Heads and Integrated Inductors

High performance magnetic heads, inductors and transformers, indispensable to information technology encompassing from information storage, portable power delivery, to wireless communication, require soft magnetic films with low coercivities, high permeability, and large ferromagnetic resonance frequencies. The Fe-Co-N-based films have a ferromagnetic resonance frequency of >1 GHz at zerobias f...

Amorphous and Nanocrystalline Soft Magnetic Materials

Annealing of amorphous precursor alloys, with compositions (Fe,Co!88M7B4Cu1 ~M5Zr, Nb, Hf!, above their primary crystallization temperature results in the nanocrystallization of the ferromagnetic a8-FeCo phase. This work describes results of the characterization of these alloys, including morphological and chemical stability of the a8-FeCo phase, examination of alloy compositions, and developme...

New highly oriented soft magnetic underlayer structures for perpendicular recording

Highly oriented soft underlayers with face-centered-cubic ~fcc! phase Co, Co alloy, and composite NiFe/Co film structures have been epitaxially grown on single crystal Si wafers by sputter deposition. The epitaxial orientation relationships have been determined by x-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy. It was found that the soft underlayer magnetic properties can be modified in...

Magnetic Materials (Appendix to Advanced Magnetic Nanostructures [2006])

Modeling Coercivity of Soft Magnetic Materials

Both physical and phenomenological models are necessary to obtain good descriptions of coercivity in soft magnetic materials. The former models give insight into the processes involved, while the latter models compute quickly. The differences between modeling soft and hard materials are the parameters sizes and the importance of eddy currents.