Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080260942 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING RECORDING MEDIUM AND MAGNETIC RECORDATION APPARATUS - A grain diameter controlling crystalline layer comprising crystalline grains of a metal selected from the group consisting essentially of Cu, Ni, Rh and Pt was formed on a substrate. Then, deposited atom layer of at least one element selected from the group consisting of oxygen and carbon was formed on the surface of the grain diameter control layer. A magnetic recording layer was deposited on the atoms deposited grain diameter controlling crystalline layer. Then a magnetic recording medium in which the magnetic crystalline grains has small grain diameter and small grain diameter distribution, and the magnetic recording medium shows increased signal to noise ratio at high recording density. | 10-23-2008 |
20090011281 | PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND MAGNETIC RECORDING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a perpendicular magnetic recording medium includes a substrate, and a first magnetic layer and a second magnetic layer formed on the substrate, in which supposing that, for the first and second magnetic layers, respectively, uniaxial magnetic anisotropy constants are Ku | 01-08-2009 |
20090141399 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THEREOF, AND MAGNETIC RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS - A magnetic-recording medium which is provided on a nonmagnetic substrate with at least an orientation-controlling layer for controlling the orientation of a layer formed directly thereon, a perpendicularly magnetic layer having an easily magnetizing axis oriented mainly perpendicularly relative to the nonmagnetic substrate, and a protective layer. The perpendicularly magnetic layer includes two or more magnetic layers, at least one of the magnetic layers is a layer having Co as a main component and containing Pt as well and containing an oxide, and at least another of the magnetic layers is a layer having Co as a main component and containing Cr as well and containing no oxide. | 06-04-2009 |
20090161255 | PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND MAGNETIC RECORDING/REPRODUCTION APPARATUS USING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, a perpendicular magnetic recording medium includes a substrate, soft magnetic underlying layer, nonmagnetic underlying layer, and perpendicular magnetic recording layer. The perpendicular magnetic recording layer has an array of magnetic structures each corresponding to 1 bit of recording information, and includes a crystalline hard magnetic recording layer having perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, and an amorphous soft magnetic recording layer. The hard and soft magnetic recording layers are coupled by exchange coupling. | 06-25-2009 |
20090201607 | Patterned perpendicular magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus - It is made possible to provide a patterned perpendicular magnetic recording medium that has smaller write magnetic field and the variation of magnetic characteristics in the bit regions, generates fewer reversed magnetic domains in the position control information regions of the head, and has excellent thermal stability. A patterned perpendicular magnetic recording medium includes: a nonmagnetic substrate; a soft magnetic base layer formed on the nonmagnetic substrate; a nonmagnetic intermediate layer formed on the soft magnetic base layer; and a perpendicular magnetic recording layer formed on the nonmagnetic intermediate layer, and including a stacked structure of a CoPt-based crystalline film having a Pt content in the range of 5 atomic percent to 35 atomic percent and a rare-earth and transition metal alloy amorphous film formed on the CoPt-based crystalline film. The CoPt-based crystalline film and the rare-earth and transition metal alloy amorphous film are exchange-coupled. | 08-13-2009 |
20100033873 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND MAGNETIC RECORDING REPRODUCING APPARATUS - 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. | 02-11-2010 |
20100039730 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND MAGNETIC RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS - The present invention provides a magnetic recording medium which is capable of improving the perpendicular orientation of a perpendicular magnetic recording layer while maintaining a writing performance during recording and obtaining both an improvement in the perpendicular orientation and fine magnetic crystal particles with a uniform diameter, and which enables information to be recorded or reproduced at high density, a method of manufacturing the same, and a magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus. A magnetic recording medium | 02-18-2010 |
20100098972 | PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND MAGNETIC RECORDING/REPRODUCTION APPARATUS USING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, a perpendicular magnetic recording medium includes a substrate, soft magnetic underlying layer, nonmagnetic underlying layer, and perpendicular magnetic recording layer. The perpendicular magnetic recording layer has an array of magnetic structures each corresponding to 1 bit of recording information, and includes a crystalline hard magnetic recording layer having perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, and an amorphous soft magnetic recording layer. The hard and soft magnetic recording layers are coupled by exchange coupling. | 04-22-2010 |
20100165510 | VERTICAL MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND MAGNETIC RECORDING REPRODUCING APPARATUS - A magnetic recording medium comprising a substrate, at least one soft magnetic underlayer formed on the substrate, a perpendicular magnetic recording layer formed on the soft magnetic underlayer, and a protective layer formed on the perpendicular magnetic recording layer, is provided wherein the perpendicular magnetic recording layer is comprised of a primary recording layer, a non-magnetic intermediate layer and an auxiliary layer; the primary recording layer comprises magnetic crystal grains and grain boundary portions surrounding the magnetic crystal grains, and has a perpendicular magnetic anisotropy; the auxiliary layer has a negative magneto crystalline anisotropy; and the non-magnetic intermediate layer is formed between the primary recording layer and the auxiliary layer and comprises at least one metal selected from Ru, Rh and Ir, or at least one alloy thereof. This magnetic recording medium exhibits high heat resistance and good recording/reproducing characteristics, and enables a high recording density. | 07-01-2010 |
20100173175 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND MAGNETIC RECORDING REPRODUCING APPARATUS - A magnetic recording medium is provided, which has at least one soft magnetic layer, at least one seed layer, at least one underlayer and at least one perpendicular magnetic recording layer, and is characterized in that the or each seed layer is comprised of a covalently bonded material. The covalently bonded material preferably predominantly comprises a nitride having a hexagonal crystal structure, more preferably, predominantly comprises aluminum nitride having a hexagonal wurtzite crystal structure. This magnetic recording medium is superior in recording and reproducing an information with high density. | 07-08-2010 |
20100188772 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, AND MAGNETIC RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS - There are provided a method for manufacturing a magnetic recording medium which is excellent in terms of both the recording and reproduction characteristics and the thermal fluctuation characteristics without reducing the density and hardness of the perpendicular magnetic layer; a magnetic recording medium; and a magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus with which an excellent recording density is achieved, | 07-29-2010 |
20110151280 | PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND MAGNETIC RECORDING/REPRODUCING DEVICE - A perpendicular magnetic recording medium including at least a soft under layer, an orientation control layer, a magnetic recording layer and a protective layer on a non-magnetic substrate, wherein the orientation control layer is composed of three or more layers including a seed layer, a first intermediate layer and a second intermediate layer sequentially, formed in that order from the substrate side, the crystal grains that constitute the first intermediate layer are epitaxially grown on the crystal grains of the seed layer, the crystal grains that constitute the second intermediate layer are epitaxially grown on the crystal grains of the first intermediate layer, and the crystal grains that constitute the second intermediate layer are finer than the crystal grains that constitute the first intermediate layer. | 06-23-2011 |
20110242702 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND MAGNETIC RECORDING/REPRODUCTION APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a perpendicular magnetic recording layer comprises a granular film type recording layer and a continuous film type recording layer. The granular film type recording layer comprises a first granular film type recording layer in which magnetic crystal grains in a film plane has an average crystal grain diameter of 3 to 7 nm, and a second granular film type recording layer including magnetic crystal grains having an in plane average crystal grain diameter larger than that of the magnetic crystal grains of the first granular film type recording layer. | 10-06-2011 |
20120134049 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND MAGNETIC RECORDING/REPRODUCTION APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording medium includes a substrate, a soft magnetic layer, a multilayered underlayer formed on the soft magnetic layer, and a continuous film type magnetic recording layer formed on the multilayered underlayer. The multilayered underlayer includes a first underlayer made of copper and containing crystal grains having a (100)-oriented, face-centered cubic lattice structure, a second underlayer formed on the first underlayer and made of copper and nitrogen, and a third underlayer formed into islands on the second underlayer. The continuous film type magnetic recording layer contains at least one element selected from Fe and Co and at least one element selected from Pt and Pd, has the L1 | 05-31-2012 |
20120275058 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND MAGNETIC RECORDING/REPRODUCTION APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording medium includes a substrate, an auxiliary layer formed on the substrate, and at least one perpendicular magnetic recording layer formed on the auxiliary layer. The perpendicular magnetic recording layer includes a magnetic dot pattern. The perpendicular magnetic recording layer is made of an alloy material containing one element selected from iron and cobalt, and one element selected from platinum and palladium. This alloy material has the L1 | 11-01-2012 |
20120275059 | PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND MAGNETIC RECORDING/REPRODUCTION APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording medium includes a substrate, an auxiliary layer formed on the substrate, and at least one perpendicular magnetic recording layer formed on the auxiliary layer. The perpendicular magnetic recording layer includes a magnetic dot pattern. The perpendicular magnetic recording layer is made of an alloy material containing one element selected from iron and cobalt, and one element selected from platinum and palladium. This alloy material has the L1 | 11-01-2012 |
20120276414 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND MAGNETIC RECORDING/REPRODUCTION APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a perpendicular magnetic recording medium includes a nonmagnetic interlayer formed on a nonmagnetic substrate, an antiferromagnetic layer having a thickness of 2 to 30 nm, a first nonmagnetic underlayer having a thickness of 0.2 to 5 nm, a first bit patterned ferromagnetic layer, a first bit patterned nonmagnetic layer, and a second bit patterned ferromagnetic layer. | 11-01-2012 |
20130069272 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MOLD AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - In one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a mold includes: forming a first layer having an affinity to a second polymer on a substrate having an affinity to a first polymer; forming first and second openings in the first layer; filling a resist in the second openings and hardening the resist to obtain a hardened resist; and forming a second layer containing a block copolymer and causing it to self-assemble. | 03-21-2013 |
20130075361 | PATTERN FORMING METHOD - A pattern forming method according to an embodiment includes: forming a pattern film on a first substrate, the pattern film having a concave-convex pattern, the pattern film being made of a material containing a first to-be-imprinted agent; forming a material film on a second substrate, the material film containing a second to-be-imprinted agent having a higher etching rate than an etching rate of the first to-be-imprinted agent; transferring the concave-convex pattern of the pattern film onto the material film by applying pressure between the first substrate and the second substrate, with the pattern film being positioned to face the material film, and by curing the second to-be-imprinted agent; detaching the first substrate from the pattern film; and removing the material film by etching, to leave the pattern film on the second substrate. | 03-28-2013 |
20130258523 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, MAGNETIC RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - A magnetic recording medium of an embodiment includes: a substrate; a nonmagnetic base layer disposed on the substrate; a perpendicular magnetic recording layer disposed on the nonmagnetic base layer, having a hard magnetic recording layer, a nonmagnetic intermediate layer, and a soft magnetic recording layer, and divided into mutually separated plural regions; and a protective layer disposed on the perpendicular magnetic recording layer. The hard magnetic recording layer has an easy magnetization axis directed to a stack direction of the hard magnetic recording layer. The nonmagnetic intermediate layer contains one of C, ZnO, a carbide of Si, Ti, Ta or W, and a nitride of Si, Ti, Ta or W. | 10-03-2013 |
20140042013 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND MAGNETIC RECORDING/REPRODUCTION APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording medium includes a substrate, an auxiliary layer formed on the substrate, and at least one perpendicular magnetic recording layer formed on the auxiliary layer. The perpendicular magnetic recording layer includes a magnetic dot pattern. The perpendicular magnetic recording layer is made of an alloy material containing one element selected from iron and cobalt, and one element selected from platinum and palladium. This alloy material has the L1 | 02-13-2014 |
20140104997 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, AND MAGNETIC RECORDING AND REPRODUCING DEVICE - A magnetic recording medium is disclosed in which, on a non-magnetic substrate | 04-17-2014 |
20140106065 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - A method for manufacturing a patterned medium of an embodiment includes forming a perpendicular magnetic recording layer on a substrate, forming a mask on the perpendicular magnetic recording layer, milling the perpendicular magnetic recording layer, and depositing a protective layer on the perpendicular magnetic recording layer. The perpendicular magnetic recording layer includes a first element selected from Fe and Co and a second element selected from Pt and Pd, and has a hard magnetic alloy material having an L1 | 04-17-2014 |
20140139951 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND MAGNETIC RECORDING/REPRODUCTION APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a perpendicular magnetic recording medium includes a nonmagnetic interlayer formed on a nonmagnetic substrate, an antiferromagnetic layer having a thickness of 2 to 30 nm, a first nonmagnetic underlayer having a thickness of 0.2 to 5 nm, a first bit patterned ferromagnetic layer, a first bit patterned nonmagnetic layer, and a second bit patterned ferromagnetic layer. | 05-22-2014 |
20140139952 | THIN MAGNETIC FILM, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND HIGH FREQUENCY OSCILLATOR, MAGNETIC HEAD, MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, AND MAGNETIC RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS USING THIN MAGNETIC FILM - According to one embodiment, there is provided a thin magnetic film having a negative anisotropy of −6×10 | 05-22-2014 |
20140374380 | STAMPER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING BIT PATTERNED MEDIUM USING STAMPER - A stamper of an embodiment includes: a base portion having a main surface; and a plurality of guides arranged on the main surface in mutually different first and second directions and serving as references of arrangement of a plurality of self-assembled dots. A distance between the guides in a third direction is within a range of an integer m | 12-25-2014 |