Correlations and noise in magnetic recording media

Signal Processing for Bit-Patterned Media and Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording Systems with Media Noise

With the advent of the information age, the demand for larger storage capacity is ever increasing. However, the need to continue scaling conventional magnetic recording technologies to higher areal densities has led to physical and engineering limits which are difficult to overcome. New magnetic recording technologies are required. Bit-patterned media recording (BPMR) and heat-assisted magnetic...

Noise in Disk Data-Recording Media

Measurements were made of recording medium noise in erased disks using an in-contact magnetoresistive element and an inductive head supported on an air bearing slider. Four types of coatings on aluminum disks were examined: thin, transition-metal alloy film, CrO,, FeCo particle, a n d y-Fe,O:,. Results obtained by means of three measurement techniques are in qualitative agreement and indicate t...

Recording performances in perpendicular magnetic patterned media

We report on the recording performances and signal-to-noise ratio analyses of perpendicular magnetic bit-patterned media. Two different types of magnetic samples are investigated. They differ by the way that they were patterned (nano-imprint versus e-beam lithography) as well as their magnetic properties (Co/Pt multilayers and CoCrPt alloy are the recording layers). By using a contact read/writ...

Magnetic structures in Co-Cr media for perpendicular magnetic recording

High bit densities have been demonstrated in longitudinal as well as in perpendicular magnetic recording. For the latter an area density of more than 12 G b i t / i n 2 has been obtained in a sputtered C o C r T a hard disk with a soft magnetic underlayer recorded with a special single pole head. In this paper the role of microstructure and morphology in relation to the compositional separation...

Magnetic interactions in CoCrPt-oxide based perpendicular magnetic recording media