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Amorphous Rare Earth-Transition Metal Alloys for Magneto-Optical Storage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

Richard J. Gambino
Richard J. Gambino*
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Department of Materials Science and Engineering State University of New York at Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 11794-2275, RGAMBINO@ccmail.sunysb.edu
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Abstract

Amorphous alloys of the heavy rare earth elements with cobalt and iron have magnetic and optical properties that make them ideally suited for magneto-optical mass storage media. These materials are used in all commercial erasable (MO) optical disk systems and in optically assisted magnetic storage such as the recordable music minidisk. The important properties of these materials for this application are: 1/ ferrimagnetic exchange with a magnetic compensation point near room temperature, 2/ perpendicular easy axis anisotropy when prepared under suitable conditions as thin films, 3/low media noise as compared to polycrystalline films, 4/low processing temperatures compatible with polymer substrates and 5/thermally stable when cycled repeatedly to the Curie temperature. The magneto-optical Kerr effect that is used to read the information off the disk is large at the 800 nm wavelength used in current devices but low at 400 nm. Since the areal storage density is set by the diffraction limit, improvements in shorter wavelength device performance are needed.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 517: Symposium F – Wide Bandgap Semiconductors for High Power, High Frequency , January 1998 , 555
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1998

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