摘要:
Instead of directly performing defect inspection using a master information carrier, an inspection substrate is prepared to then bring the master information carrier in close contact therewith, to thereby transfer a defect on the master information carrier to the inspection substrate, thus indirectly inspecting any defect of the master information carrier on the inspection substrate. Defect inspection is performed on the first-state inspection substrate before close contacting, so that a defect inspection result on the second-state inspection substrate after close contacting and that on the first-state inspection substrate are compared to each other.
摘要:
A master information carrier has a shape pattern corresponding to an information signal array to be recorded on a magnetic recording medium, and the shape pattern is provided by arraying a ferromagnetic thin film deposited on a nonmagnetic substrate surface. The ferromagnetic thin film is either a soft magnetic film or semihard magnetic film having not more than 40 kA/m coercive force in track length direction of the information signals, and residual magnetization of the ferromagnetic thin film in the track length direction of the information signals is greater than coercive force of the magnetic recording medium. As a result, a master information carrier with superior magnetic recording performance can be obtained.
摘要:
A master information carrier (2) with an arranged pattern formed of a ferromagnetic film in a shape corresponding to information signals is superposed on a magnetic recording medium (1) and the arranged pattern formed of a ferromagnetic film is magnetized with a magnetizing head (6), thus transfer-recording the arranged pattern into the magnetic recording medium as a magnetized pattern. The magnetizing head includes an annular magnetic circuit with a gap, and a strength of a magnetic field applied to the master information carrier by magnetic flux leaking from portions other than the gap is set to be 20% or less of that of a magnetic field applied to the master information carrier by magnetic flux leaking from the gap. Quality deterioration due to various conditions during recording can be prevented and uniform recording with less variation depending on position on the magnetic recording medium is achieved.
摘要:
A master information carrier comprises a substrate whose surface has an embossed pattern corresponding to an information signal. At least a surface of the protruding portion of the embossed pattern is made of a ferromagnetic material. A method for writing an information signal into a sheet or disk magnetic record medium with a ferromagnetic thin film or coating is performed by putting the surface of the magnetic record medium into contact with the master information carrier so as to write a magnetized pattern corresponding to the embossed pattern of the master information carrier into the magnetic record medium.
摘要:
A thin film magnetic recording medium is manufactured with vacuum deposition or sputtering technique. One or more reflectors are provided between the substrate and an evaporation source around a path through which evaporated atoms travel onto a substrate. When a thin film is deposited on a substrate, the one or more reflectors are heated above a melting point of an evaporation material to reflect evaporated atoms arriving them. Thus, atoms reflected by the one or more reflectors also contribute to deposition of a thin film as well as evaporated atoms arriving directly from the evaporation source, and deposition efficiency is improved. Such a reflector is also used to limit a boundary or the path through which evaporated atoms travel onto a substrate. Then, a range of incident angles of evaporated atoms onto the substrate is kept the same for a long time on deposition, and characteristics of the thin film are stable.
摘要:
A magnetic recording medium fabrication device includes a cooling drum around which a substrate runs while being cooled thereby, an ion gun arranged upstream to a vapor deposition station for kicking out particles absorbed on the plane of the substrate, a cooling body arranged between the cooling drum and ion gun for absorbing kicked out particles and a vapor deposition means for depositing a magnetic layer on the substrate at the vapor deposition station. The magnetic particles forming the magnetic layer that have residual magnetization vectors within .+-.10.degree. of the easy axis direction including the magnetic anisotropy of the medium are greater than or equal to 70% and less than or equal to 90% of the total amount of magnetic particles.
摘要:
A magnetic recording medium includes a nonmagnetic substrate and a magnetic layer which is formed on a surface of the substrate and which has an axis of easy magnetization inclined from a direction to normal plane of the layer. An angular dependency of coercive force, of the medium which is measured by changing an application angle of a magnetic field in a range relative to -90.degree. to +90.degree. from the plane of the layer with a plane normal to the layer and including the axis of easy magnetization, has two local maximum values and two local minimum values. A ratio of the local maximum value closer to a plane direction to the minimum value closer of the layer to the local plane direction of the layer is from 1.6 to 2.4, and the local maximum value closer to the plane direction of the layer is larger than the local maximum value closer to the line normal to of the plane of the layer. The medium has a high S/N ratio.
摘要:
A method for producing a magnetic recording medium having a magnetic layer having a two-layered structure positioned on a substrate, which includes forming the magnetic layer on the substrate by a vacuum deposition process during the travel of the substrate on a cylindrical can, wherein a first evaporation source and a second evaporation source are positioned on the same side of a vertical line passing across a longitudinal axis of the cylindrical can while confronting the cylindrical can, a shield plate having a first opening and a second opening is positioned between the cylindrical can and the first and second evaporation sources, each of vapors evaporated from the first and second evaporation sources passes through the first and second openings, respectively, a distance between the vertical line passing across the longitudinal axis of the cylindrical can and a center of an evaporation part of the first evaporation source is longer than a radius of the cylindrical can, and a distance between the vertical line passing across the longitudinal axis of the cylindrical can and a center of an evaporation part of the second evaporation source is shorter than a radius of the cylindrical can.
摘要:
In the method for making the magnetic recording wherein a first magnetic layer is formed on a substrate and a second magnetic layer is formed on the first magnetic layer, before forming the second magnetic layer, accelerated ions are irradiated onto a surface of the first magnetic layer. Thereby, naturally formed oxidized layer and adhered impurity on the first magnetic layer are removed from the surface of the first magnetic layer by ion etching action by the irradiation of ions, and hence a preferable condition of an interface between the first magnetic layer and subsequently formed second magnetic layer is obtained.
摘要:
The method includes applying ions and electrons from an ion gun onto a polymer film while the polymer film is traveling circumferentially along a peripheral surface of a cylindrical can from a supply location to a take-up location of the polymer film relative to the cylindrical drum. The ions and electrons from the ion gun are applied onto a part of the polymer film while it is moving through a position near the supply location of the polymer film relative to the drum at which the polymer film begins to contact the outer peripheral surface of the drum. At a downstream location relative to the drum, electrons are applied from an electron gun onto the polymer film traveling on the drum surface. At a further downstream location relative to the drum, the thin film is deposited, e.g., by vacuum evaporation, on the polymer film travelling on the drum. This method enables a thin film, having no wrinkles and with a high adhesion strength with respect to the polymer film, to be produced in a stable manner.