Abstract:
A vertical magnetic recording medium exhibiting excellent noise characteristics in which magnetic interaction is reduced in a magnetic layer. The vertical magnetic recording medium (10) includes a nonmagnetic substrate (1), an underlying layer (2) formed directly or indirectly on the nonmagnetic substrate (1), and a magnetic layer (4) for recording magnetic information formed on the underlying layer (2), characterized in that the underlying layer (2) is composed of an alloy principally including two kinds of element, difference of standard free energy ΔG° for producing an oxide or a nitride of the both elements at room temperature is set not lower than 70 kJ/mol[O2 or N2], and crystal grains constituting the underlying layer (2) principally includes one of two elements having a higher ΔG°, and the grain boundary of the underlying layer (2) principally includes an oxide or a nitride of an element having a lower ΔG°.
Abstract:
A vertical magnetic recording medium has a low-noise characteristic compared to media of a permalloy or sendust crystalline material, including a high-flatness soft magnetic backing layer, and enabling recording/reproduction of information at high recording density, a magnetic recorder provided with the vertical magnetic recording medium, a vertical magnetic recording medium manufacturing method and apparatus. The vertical magnetic recording medium has a multilayer structure on a substrate, in which a soft magnetic backing layer, a vertical recording layer of a ferromagnetic body, and a protective layer are formed. The soft magnetic backing layer is formed of an FeSiAlN film of a soft magnetic material. The atom % of each element of Fe, Si, Al, and N of the FeSiAlN film can be changed by changing the flow rate of N2 gas in a mixture gas of N2 gas and Ar gas introduced into the chamber.
Abstract:
A magnetic thin film with a saturation magnetic flux density of 2 T or more and a coercive force of 2 Oe or less for a magnetic pole material of a recording head. The magnetic thin film consists of an iron carbide film that includes a martensite (α′) phase as the principal phase and at least carbon and iron as constituent elements. The iron carbide film preferably consists of a single α′ phase. The iron carbide film has a body-centered tetragonal structure and a c-axis constitutes an axis of hard magnetization and, a c-plane constitutes a plane of easy magnetization. The axis of hard magnetization constitutes a direction which is generally perpendicular to the film surface, and the plane of easy magnetization constitutes a direction which is generally parallel to the film surface.
Abstract:
A method for producing a magnetic recording medium having a flat surface and a strong exchange bias field, and excellent in thermal stability. The method for producing a magnetic recording medium related to the present invention comprising a nonmagnetic substrate 1, a metal underlayer 2, and a ferromagnetic metal layer 3 formed successively in multilayer. The method comprises a step of forming the ferromagnetic layer 3 where ferromagnetic films 3a, 3b and one or more nonmagnetic metal spacer layer 4 are alternately formed in a multilayer and a step of allowing at least the interface of the nonmagnetic metal spacer layers 4 to physically adsorb oxygen and/or nitrogen.
Abstract:
A magnetic recording medium capable of suppressing the effects of thermal agitation and simultaneously reducing the average grain diameter and the standard deviation of magnetic crystal grains constituting a ferromagnetic metal film, without changing the film thickness of a metal under-layer or the film thickness of a ferromagnetic metal layer forming a recording layer, as well as a production method thereof, and a magnetic recording device. The magnetic recording medium includes a ferromagnetic metal layer of a cobalt based alloy formed on a base material with a metal underlayer having chromium as a major constituent disposed there between, wherein a seed layer having at least tungsten is provided between the base material and the metal under-layer, and the seed layer is an islands type film.
Abstract:
A magnetic recording medium was a high normalized coercive force and superior thermal stability. The magnetic recording medium comprises a non-magnetic base material, and a ferromagnetic metal layer of cobalt based alloy formed on top of this base material with a metal underlayer disposed therebetween, and displays a coercive force Hc of at least 2000 (Oe) and an anisotropic magnetic field Hkgrain of at least 10,000 (Oe). Furthermore, magnetic recording media in which the aforementioned metal underlayer and/or the ferromagnetic metal layer are fabricated in a film fabrication chamber with an ultimate vacuum at the 10−9 Torr level are preferred. A magnetic recording medium according to the present invention can be ideally applied to hard disks, floppy disks, and magnetic tapes and the like.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to ferromagnetic particles capable of exhibiting a high purity and excellent magnetic properties from the industrial viewpoints and a process for producing the ferromagnetic particles, and also provides an anisotropic magnet, a bonded magnet and a compacted magnet which are obtained by using the ferromagnetic particles. The ferromagnetic particles comprising an Fe16N2 compound phase in an amount of not less than 80% as measured by Mössbauer spectrum and each having an outer shell in which FeO is present in the form of a film having a thickness of not more than 5 nm according to the present invention can be produced by subjecting iron oxide or iron oxyhydroxide having an average major axis diameter of 40 to 5000 nm and an aspect ratio (major axis diameter/minor axis diameter) of 1 to 200 as a starting material to dispersing treatment to prepare aggregated particles; subjecting the iron compound particles passed through a mesh to hydrogen reducing treatment at a temperature of 160 to 420° C.; and then subjecting the resulting particles to nitridation treatment at a temperature of 130 to 170° C.
Abstract:
An MR element in a CPP structure includes a spacer layer made of Cu, a magnetic pinned layer containing CoFe and a free layer containing CoFe that are laminated to sandwich the spacer layer. The free layer is located below the magnetic pinned layer. The free layer is oriented in a (001) crystal plane, the spacer layer is formed and oriented in a (001) crystal plane on the (001) crystal plane of the free layer. Therefore, in a low resistance area where an area resistivity (AR) of the MR element is, for example, lower than 0.3 Ω·μm2, an MR element that has a large variation of a resistance is obtained.
Abstract:
In a perpendicular magnetic recording medium in which at least a soft magnetic underlayer, an orientation control layer, a magnetic recording layer and a protective layer are formed on a non-magnetic substrate in order from the bottom, the orientation control layer has a laminated structure of two or more layers including an intermediate layer and a seed layer which is disposed closer to the non-magnetic substrate than the intermediate layer. The seed layer includes two or more kinds of elements having a face-centered cubic structure, has face-centered cubic (111) plane crystals oriented in a direction perpendicular to a substrate surface, and has a pseudo-hexagonal structure.
Abstract:
According to one embodiment, a multilayered underlayer including a first underlayer containing Cu aligned in a (111) plane and a second underlayer formed on the Cu underlayer and containing Cu and nitrogen as main components is formed.