Seedlayer and preheating effects on crystallography and recording performance of CoCrPtB perpendicular media

Min Zheng; Geon Choe; Kenneth E. Johnson; Lan Gao; Sy Hwang Liou

doi:10.1109/TMAG.2002.801792

Seedlayer and preheating effects on crystallography and recording performance of CoCrPtB perpendicular media

Min Zheng, Geon Choe, Kenneth E. Johnson, Lan Gao, Sy Hwang Liou

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Abstract

The effects of seedlayer (SL) and preheating on the crystallographic, magnetic, and recording properties of CoCr₁₈Pt₁₆B₄ granular perpendicular magnetic media have been investigated. For the media with Ru as underlayer, although higher preheating improves both coercivity and squareness, the media is much noisier. With introducing Ta SL, Ru (0002)/Co (0002) crystallography is greatly enhanced. High coercivity, unity squareness, and negative nucleation field are achieved even at low preheating without degrading signal-to-noise ratio. In addition, the media is magnetically stable for a wide range of recording density.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1979-1981
Number of pages	3
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Magnetics
Volume	38
Issue number	5 I
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TMAG.2002.801792
State	Published - Sep 2002
Event	2002 International Magnetics Conference (Intermag 2002) - Amsterdam, Netherlands Duration: Apr 28 2002 → May 2 2002

Keywords

Crystallography
Granular media
Perpendicular recording
Ru UL
Ta SL
Thermal stability

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Seedlayer and preheating effects on crystallography and recording performance of CoCrPtB perpendicular media

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