Presentation 2020-10-05
Switching field and surface control of CoPt based full granular media by utilizing granular cap layer with ferromagnetic grain boundary
Kim Kong Tham, Ryosuke Kushibiki, Tomonari Kamada, Shin Saito,
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Abstract(in English) Investigation of magnetic properties and nanostructure for full granular media with CoPt-Gd2O3 granular cap layers (CLs) of various Gd2O3 content were conducted. Media with low surface roughness of 0.19 nm is obtained even though Gd2O3 content is reduced from 30 to 5 vol%, which is lower than that of media with CoPtCrB continuous CL. The result is supported by surface morphology observed by transmission electron microscopy. According to cross-section element analysis, homogeneous nanostructure in the thickness direction with one-on-one columnar growth of magnetic grain is observed. Reduction of Gd2O3 content increases indirect intergranular exchange coupling through CL which result in media with higher nucleation field and lower saturation field than that of media with CoPtCrB continuous CL. Furthermore, at CL thickness of 6 nm, when Gd2O3 content is reduced from 30 to 15 vol%, switching field distribution is reduced from 0.11 to 0.05. This results suggests that the reduction of Gd2O3 content of the CoPt-Gd2O3 granular CL is effective to reduce the switching field distribution of the full granular media to be lower than that of media with CoPtCrB continuous CL while having an extremely smooth media surface.
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Keyword(in English) Full granular media / granular cap layer / ferromagnetic oxide / flat surface / switching field distribution / homogeneous structure / rare earth oxide / perpendicular media
Paper # MRIS2020-2
Date of Issue 2020-09-28 (MRIS)

Conference Information
Committee MRIS / ITE-MMS
Conference Date 2020/10/5(1days)
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Place (in English) Online
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Topics (in English) Recording Head, Spintronics, Solid State Memory, Media, etc.
Chair Shuhei Yoshida(Kinki Univ.) / Kenji Machida(NHK)
Vice Chair
Secretary (Tohoku Inst. of Tech.) / (AIST)
Assistant Yasuaki Nakamura(Ehime Univ.) / Yoshiyuki Hirayama(Samsung)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Magnetic Recording & Information Storage / Technical Group on Multi-media Storage
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Switching field and surface control of CoPt based full granular media by utilizing granular cap layer with ferromagnetic grain boundary
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Full granular media
Keyword(2) granular cap layer
Keyword(3) ferromagnetic oxide
Keyword(4) flat surface
Keyword(5) switching field distribution
Keyword(6) homogeneous structure
Keyword(7) rare earth oxide
Keyword(8) perpendicular media
1st Author's Name Kim Kong Tham
1st Author's Affiliation Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K. K.(Tanaka Kikinzoku)
2nd Author's Name Ryosuke Kushibiki
2nd Author's Affiliation Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K. K.(Tanaka Kikinzoku)
3rd Author's Name Tomonari Kamada
3rd Author's Affiliation Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K. K.(Tanaka Kikinzoku)
4th Author's Name Shin Saito
4th Author's Affiliation Tohoku University(Tohou Univ.)
Date 2020-10-05
Paper # MRIS2020-2
Volume (vol) vol.120
Number (no) MRIS-180
Page pp.pp.6-11(MRIS),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2020-09-28 (MRIS)