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Co/Pd Multilayer Based Recording Layers For Perpendicular Media

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2011

Dmitri Litvinov
Affiliation:
Seagate Research, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15203 E-mail:dmitri.litvinov@seagate.com
Thomas A. Roscamp
Affiliation:
Seagate Research, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15203
Timothy Klemmer
Affiliation:
Roscamp Engineering, Woodlane Park, Colorado 80866
Mei-Ling Wu
Affiliation:
Seagate Research, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15203
J. Kent Howard
Affiliation:
Seagate Research, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15203
Sakhrat Khizroev
Affiliation:
Seagate Research, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15203 E-mail:dmitri.litvinov@seagate.com
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Abstract

The results of the experimental study of CoX/Pd multilayer based recording layers for perpendicular recording media are presented. The perpendicular magnetic recording media with multilayer recording layers and high moment soft underlayers were deposited by magnetron sputtering. It is shown how a favorable microstructure of the multilayer films can be achieved by the use of the appropriate buffer layers. The effects of boron addition to the cobalt layer in a multilayer recording layer is described. The feasibility of the aging process that leads to the reduced exchange coupling in the multilayer recording layer, is demonstrated. It is shown that boron addition to the cobalt layer accelerates the aging process.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2001

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