The giant magnetoimpedance (GMI) effect implies a strong dependence of the impedance of a
conductor on the external magnetic field and has been observed in a wide range of soft magnetic
materials. The impedance values of magnetic thin films and magnetic/conductor/magnetic sandwiched
structures with different thickness are simulated using the finite element method (FEM). The giant
magneto-impedance (GMI) is calculated from the difference of the impedance values with high and
low permeability of the magnetic material. The application of extra magnetic field can be simulated by
change the value of permeability. It is shown that the GMI ratio of films is significantly influenced by
the geometry. And the conductor layer can obviously increase the sensitivity of GMI effect. The skin
effect combined with the lack of shielding of the central conductor at the edge produce the high GMI
effect of sandwiched structure thin films.
Light rare earth-heavy rare earth-transition metal (LRE-HRE-TM) thin films are a kind of important recording media. A lot of researches have been carried out on the LRE-HRE-TM thin films to improve its properties for data storage application and fruitful results have been achieved. This report gives a glance on the evolution of the research on LRE-HRE-TM recording media. At the same time, combined with the hybrid recording technology, some experimental results obtained on LRE-HRE-TM recording media are discussed, which suggest the promising prospect of the LRE-HRE-TM media in hybrid recording application.
The (Sm,Nd)(Tb,Dy)Co thin Film had been prepared with spf-430H r.f.-magnetron sputtering system. The effects of heavy rare earth Tb, Dy substituted by light rare earth Sm, Nd on the magnetic and magneto-optical properties have been investigated. With the increasing of light rare earth Sm, Nd composition, the saturation magnetization Ms, the reflectivity R and the Kerr rotation angle θk are increased, while the coercivity (Hc) is decreased distinctly. This can be explained with the ferri-magnetic structure of RE-TM alloy. Mr/Hc Ratio is increased with the increasing of Sm composition in
SmTbCo and SmDyCo. The influence of composition and sputtering conditions on perpendicular anisotropy films are reported in detail.
The minimax optimization method is applied broadly to industrial design, agricultural test, automation, economy and so on. In the field of magnetic recording, we utilize it in determining optimal fabricating conditions of recording thin film media. In the procedure of thin film fabrication, the coercivity, the remenance- hickness product and the squareness ratio of magnetic thin film are considered as multiple-objective functions of these parameters: element composition, atmosphere pressure, substrate temperature, post-annealing temperature and thin film thickness. The optimal fabricating conditions and high performance of CoCrPt thin film are obtained using the minimax optimization based on a series of experiments and data. The coercivity of CoCrPt thin film is up to 3523Oe; the remenance-thickness product is up to 1.75 memu/cm2; and the squareness ratio is up to 0.83. The results show that the minimax optimization method can improve the fabricating conditions of recording thin film and is helpful for a short path of achieved high performance of CoCrPt thin film.
Combining the advantages of hard-disk magnetic recording and magneto-optical recording, hybrid recording is regarded as promising candidate for extremely-high density recording technology beyond Tera bits/in2. To obtain such high areal density, hybrid recording media are required to have high coercivity and large remanent magnetization at room temperature, the desired temperature dependence of coercivity and magnetization, as well as very short thermal response time. Currently, the researches on the hybrid recording media mainly involve the magnetic hard-disk polycrystalline recording media and the magneto-optical amorphous media. This report presents the latest progresses in the researches on these two kinds of media for hybrid recording.
Temperature dependence of the properties of RE-TM thin films is very important for MO recording. In this paper, we studied the temperature dependence of the magnetic and magneto-optical properties of the amorphous LRE-HRE-TM single layer thin films and LRE-HRE-TM/HRE-TM couple-bilayered thin films. For LRE-HRE-TM single layer thin films, the temperature dependence of the magnetization was investigated by using the mean field theory. The experimental and theoretical results matched very well. With the LRE substitution in HRE-TM thin film, the compensation temperature Tcomp decreased and the curie temperature Tc remained unchanged. Kerr rotation angle became larger and the saturation magnetization Ms at room temperature increased. For LRE-HRE-TM/HRE-TM couple-bilayered thin films, comparisons of the temperature dependences of the coercivities and Kerr rotation angles were made between isolated sublayers and couple-bilayered thin film.
In order to meet the requirements of high saturation magnetization (Ms) and large coercivity (Hc) at room temperature for hybrid recording, the TbCo/Cr films with perpendicular anisotropy were prepared by an r.f. magnetron sputtering system without applying bias voltage. The influence of sputtering conditions and the effects of Sm substitution on the magnetic and magneto-optical properties of TbCo/Cr films were studied. It was found that although the Hc of TbCo/Cr could be optimized by choosing suitable sputtering parameters, but the partial Tb substituted by Sm will directly affect the magnitude of saturation magnetization Ms and the Kerr rotation angle 0k. This can be explained with the feeri-magnetical structure of RE-TM alloy. Under the optimized sputtering conditions, when the magnetic layer composition was (Sm0.343Tb0.657)31Co69, the Ms as high as 385emu/cm3 and the Hc as high as 4.7KOe at room temperature were obtained.
The magnetic and magneto-optic properties of TbCo/Cr thin films were studied. A comparison of the MO properties was made between TbCo thin films with and without Cr underlayer. It was found that Cr underlayer helps to increase the Kerr rotation angle and to enhance the coercivities of TbCo thin films. The effects of the thickness of Cr underlayer and the gas pressure during Cr underlayer preparation on the magnetic and magneto-optic properties of TbCo layers were investigated, as well as the temperature dependence of these properties of TbCo/Cr thin films.
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