Special issue. Advances in magnetic recording. 4. New technology on magnetic recording. 1. Perpendicular magnetic recording systems.

Magnetic Nanoparticle Arrays Self-Assembled on Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Media

We study magnetic-field directed self-assembly of magnetic nanoparticles onto templates recorded on perpendicular magnetic recording media, and quantify feature width and height as a function of assembly time. Feature widths are determined from Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) images, while heights are obtained with Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM). For short assembly times, widths were ~150 nm,...

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

Magnetic Layers for Perpendicular Recording Media

Hard disk drives (HDDs) are recently being incorporated into video recorders, car navigation devices, family game machines, etc., as devices (AV-HDDs) to store digital AV (audio-visual) information such as movies and television programs. Because the AV-HDD has the features of large capacity, high speed and low cost, it is suitable for long-time recording, high-speed random access and multi-chan...