book of abstracts - IM2NP
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A B S T R A C T S WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30 N A N O S E A 2 0 1 0<br />
Room Port-Pin<br />
8H30-9h10<br />
Metallic Alloys for high density recording media.<br />
D. Fiorani, G. Varvaro, S. Laureti, E. Agostinelli, A.M. Testa (ISM - CNR, Area ROMA 1,<br />
Via Salaria km 29.500, 00016 Roma, Italy ) dino.fiorani@ism.cnr.it<br />
1 – Introduction<br />
Magnetic recording represents one <strong>of</strong> the most rapidly developing high technology areas. The computer hard<br />
disk drive has experienced an exponential increase in data capacity over time making it the predominant<br />
storage system for digital data [1]. This high growth rate has imposed more and more pressing requirements<br />
for the recording media and has driven the research and the development <strong>of</strong> new systems in order to get the<br />
better trade-<strong>of</strong>f among three fundamental requirements (recording trilemma): thermal stability, medium<br />
signal-to-noise ratio and writability.<br />
2 – Abstract<br />
The most promising materials (e.g. L10-Co(Fe)Pt films, [Co/Pd]n multilayers, CoCrPt@SO2 films),<br />
recording modes (e.g. perpendicular recording, thermally assisted writing), architectures (e.g. tilted and<br />
exchange spring media) and designs (e.g. patterned media) <strong>of</strong> recording media will be rewieved. The<br />
investigation, by using a vectorial VSM, <strong>of</strong> the magnetic properties <strong>of</strong> two different materials for<br />
perpendicular recording (tilted easy axis L10-CoPt(111)/Pt(111)/MgO(100) films and perpendicular easy<br />
axis [(Co90Cr10)80Pt20]92:(SiO2)8 media) will be reported.<br />
(111) oriented films <strong>of</strong> the L10-CoPt alloy have been deposited by using a conventional frontal Pulsed Laser<br />
Deposition. A very thin Pt (111) underlayer has been grown on MgO(100) and used to favour the epitaxial<br />
growth <strong>of</strong> the magnetic layer along the [111] direction, i.e. with the c-axis tilted at an angle <strong>of</strong> 36° with<br />
respect to the film plane. From the analysis <strong>of</strong> the angular dependence <strong>of</strong> the remanent magnetization, it has<br />
been found that the system presents 4 out-<strong>of</strong>-plane 36° easy axes with orthogonal in-plane projections.<br />
[(Co90Cr10)80Pt20]92@(SiO2)8 films have been grown by magnetron sputter deposition onto thermally<br />
oxidised Si wafers. A complex seed layer stack – Cr(5nm)/Ru(8nm)/Ru(12nm) – has been used to promote a<br />
perpendicular anisotropy. The experimental data indicate that both Stoner-Wohlfarth and Kondorsky reversal<br />
mechanism are present, with a predominance <strong>of</strong> the Kondorsky character with decreasing magnetic layer<br />
thickness.<br />
3 – Conclusion<br />
The role <strong>of</strong> the metallic alloys in high density magneto-recording has been reported with particular emphasis<br />
on tilted easy axis L10-CoPt(111)/Pt(111)/MgO(100) films and perpendicular easy axis<br />
[(Co90Cr10)80Pt20]92:(SiO2)8 media.<br />
[1] H. J. Richter and A. Y. Dobin, J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 287, 41 (2005)<br />
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