Magnetic layer

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9685183-B2
Application number	US-201414451779-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 5, 2014
Priority date	Oct 29, 2010
Publication date	Jun 20, 2017
Grant date	Jun 20, 2017

Abstract

An apparatus includes a substrate and a magnetic layer coupled to the substrate. The magnetic layer includes an alloy that has magnetic hardness that is a function of the degree of chemical ordering of the alloy. The degree of chemical ordering of the alloy in a first portion of the magnetic layer is greater than the degree of chemical ordering of the alloy in a second portion of the magnetic layer, and the first portion of the magnetic layer is closer to the substrate than the second portion of the magnetic layer.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A magnetic recording medium, comprising:
a substrate; and
a magnetic layer coupled to the substrate and comprising an iron platinum carbon alloy that has magnetic hardness that is a function of the degree of chemical ordering of the alloy, wherein a degree of chemical ordering of the alloy varies with respect to distance from the substrate within the layer.

2. The medium of claim 1 , wherein the degree of chemical ordering of the alloy decreases within the magnetic layer with respect to distance from the substrate.

3. The medium of claim 1 , wherein the alloy in a first portion of the magnetic layer consists essentially of a fully-ordered form of the alloy.

4. The medium of claim 1 , wherein the alloy in a first portion of the magnetic layer has a granular microstructure with an average grain size of less than about ten nanometers.

5. The medium of claim 4 , wherein carbon is used as a boundary material for the alloy in the first portion of the magnetic layer.

6. The medium of claim 5 , wherein the alloy further comprises at least one of copper, chromium, zirconium, boron, tantalum, silicon dioxide, magnesium oxide, aluminum oxide, and boron trioxide.

7. The medium of claim 1 , wherein the degree of chemical ordering of the alloy varies discretely with respect to distance from the substrate such that the alloy, in a first sublayer closer to the substrate, has a greater degree of chemical ordering than does the alloy in a second sub-layer that is further from the substrate.

8. The medium of claim 7 , wherein the alloy in the first sub-layer is fully ordered, and wherein the alloy in the second sub-layer is disordered.

9. The medium of claim 1 , further comprising:
a seed layer between the substrate and the magnetic layer; and
an overcoat overlaying the magnetic layer.

10. A magnetic recording medium, comprising:
a substrate; and
a magnetic layer coupled to the substrate and comprising an iron platinum carbon alloy that has magnetic hardness that is a function of the degree of chemical ordering of the alloy, wherein the magnetic layer comprises a first sub-layer having a hardness H K1 and a second sub-layer having a hardness H K2 and H K1 >H K2 .

11. The medium of claim 10 , wherein the first sub-layer is closer to the substrate than the second sub-layer.

12. The medium of claim 10 , wherein the alloy in the first sub-layer consists essentially of molecules having a face-centered tetragonal molecular structure, and wherein the alloy in the second sub-layer consists essentially of molecules having a face-centered cubic molecular structure.

13. The medium of claim 10 , wherein the first sub-layer has a substantially uniform thickness, and wherein the second sub-layer has a substantially uniform thicknesses.

14. The medium of claim 13 , wherein the thickness of the first sub-layer is between about one to ten nanometers, and wherein the thickness of the second sub-layer is between about one to ten nanometers.

15. The medium of claim 13 , wherein the combined thickness of the first and second sub-layers is between about five to thirty nanometers.

16. A magnetic recording medium comprising:
a substrate; and
a magnetic layer of an iron platinum carbon alloy coupled to the substrate, wherein a degree of chemical ordering of the iron platinum carbon alloy decreases with respect to increasing distance from the substrate within the layer.

17. The medium of claim 16 , wherein the degree of chemical ordering of the iron platinum carbon alloy continuously decreases within the magnetic layer with respect to distance from the substrate.

18. The medium of claim 16 , wherein the degree of chemical ordering of the iron platinum carbon alloy varies discretely with respect to distance from the substrate such that the iron platinum carbon alloy, in a first sublayer closer to the substrate, has a greater degree of chemical ordering than does the iron platinum carbon alloy in a second sub-layer that is further from the substrate.

Assignees

• Seagate Technology Llc

Inventors

• Peng Yingguo
• Wu Xiaowei
• Ju Ganping
• Lu Bin

Classifications

• G11B5/84

  Processes or apparatus specially adapted for manufacturing record carriers · CPC title

• G11B5/65

  characterised by its composition (G11B5/66 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G11B5/64

  comprising only the magnetic material without bonding agent · CPC title

• G11B5/653 Primary

  containing Fe or Ni (containing Co G11B5/656; containing inorganic, non-oxide compounds of Si, N, P, B, H or C G11B5/657; containing oxygen G11B5/658) · CPC title

• G11B5/672 Primary

  having different compositions in a plurality of magnetic layers, e.g. layer compositions having differing elemental components or differing proportions of elements · CPC title