Abstract:
A disk for vertical magnetic data recording, in which the writing/reading processes are carried out in a direction perpendicular to the disk surface and which may be directly contacted by a write/reading head, consists of a substrate (1) made of monocrystalline silicon whose surface (6) forms a layer of porous silicon (2). The layer of porous silicon (2) contains pores (3) that are substantially perpendicular to the surface (6) of the substrate (1) and are filled with a magnetisable material (4). In order to produce such a disk, the following steps are required: producing a substrate made of monocrystalline silicon, producing a layer of porous silicon at the surface of the substrate with pores that are substantially perpendicular to the surface of the substrate and filling the pores with a magnetisable material. With this disk, the write/reading head may directly contact the silicon substrate surface without adhering in its resting state to the porous surface of the disk, and may slide over said surface without causing abrasion phenomena that could affect the reliability of individual recording disks and of the recording disk system as a whole.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method for preparing thin layers of iron oxide. This method consists in coating on a support a composition of iron oxide polymer prepared by controlled hydrolysis of a solution of iron alkoxide. The hydrolysis is controlled by using an amount of water such that water/alkoxide molar ratio, R, ranges from 3 to 15 or from 60 to 80. The invention applies to the preparation of thin layers for optical and/or magnetic recording.
Abstract:
A magneto-optical disk which has superposed on a transparent substrate three films, i.e. a film of magneto-optical recording medium, an interference film formed on one side of the film, and a protective film formed on the other side of tne film, is enabled to acquire notably high magneto-optical recording and reproducing properties and long durability by forming the interference film with a composition of AOx, LiAOy, or BizDOu (wherein A stands for at least one member selected from the group consisting of Ta and Nb, D for at least one member selected from the group consisting of Ge, Si, Ti, Pb, Zn, Al, and B, and x, y, z, and u stand for numerical values respectively satisfying the formulas 1.5
Abstract:
This invention relates to a disk substrate for use in a disk drive, the disk substrate consisting essentially of partially stabilized zirconia and having a surface roughness (Ra) of no more than 10 angstroms.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method for preparing thin layers of iron oxide. This method consists in coating on a support a composition of iron oxide polymer prepared by controlled hydrolysis of a solution of iron alkoxide. The hydrolysis is controlled by progressively releasing water in a solution of iron alkoxide in a hydrophobic solvent, from reverse micelles comprising water and a surfactant. The invention applies to the preparation of thin layers for optical and/or magnetic recording.
Abstract:
A magnetic recording medium is textured with a pulsed laser light beam through a multiple lens focusing system. The use of a multiple lens focusing system enables the formation of a plurality of relatively uniform protrusions smaller than those obtained with a single lens focusing system, thereby avoiding abrupt local profile changes. In an embodiment, the laser light beam is split, as by offsetting the lenses, to obtain a plurality of pairs of even smaller protrusions than obtained with a laser light beam having a centralized energy profile. The pulsed, multiple lens focused laser light beam can be used to texture a substrate, underlayer or magnetic layer. The resulting laser textured magnetic recording medium exhibits improved flying stability, glide performance and reliability.
Abstract:
A chromium underlayer is provided under Co-Ni films used for magnetic recording; for "high Hc" and "good squareness", a Cr thickness of about 1000 A DEG or more is preferred with 400 A DEG - 5000 A DEG Co-20 Ni. The thickness of the Cr layer is selected to obtain a coercivity that provides both high recording density (small PW-50) and acceptable overwrite. The techniques described here show that an adjustment of the epi-orientation influence of a chromium underlayer can yield a thin cobalt-nickel magnetic film of moderate Hc and so accommodate a recording medium having high magnetic recording density and satisfactory overwrite capability.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a magnetic recording medium for vertical recording of the type comprising a substrate (1), an intermediate layer (2) formed on the substrate and a magnetisable layer (3) formed on the intermediate layer. A medium according to the invention is characterised in that the intermediate layer (2) comprises a first constituent of an element selected from the group consisting of tungsten (W), molybdenum (Mo), niobium (Nb), titanium (Ti), vanadium (V), iridium (Ir) and zirconium (Zr), and a second constituent consisting of either cobalt (Co), chromium (Cr), or a solid substitutional solution alloy of CoCr, wherein the amounts of the first and second constituents are present in a fixed stoichometric ratio so as to form an intermetallic compound with a hexagonal crystalline structure, and the magnetisable layer (3) comprises a ternary alloy of the form (Co 100-y Cr y )X, wherein y is approximately in the range of 14 to 22 and wherein X is selected from the group consisting of W, Mo, Nb, Ti and V, and has an hexagonal crystalline structure with its C-axis oriented generally perpendicular to said substrate (1). The hexagonal cell constants of the intermediate layer (2) and the magnetisable layer (3) are related by approximately integral multiples whereby the hexagonal crystalline orientation of the magnetisable layer (3) is enhanced.
Abstract:
There are disclosed a perpendicular magnetic recording medium comprising a substrate of a polymer film containing 0.7% by weight or less of a residual solvent and a ferromagnetic alloy layer formed on the substrate and a method for preparing the same comprising the steps of heating a substrate composed of a polymer film containing a residual solvent in order to regulate a content of the solvent existing in the substrate to 0.7% by weight or less; and afterward forming a magnetic layer composed of a ferromagnetic alloy on the substrate. The perpendicular magnetic recording medium of the present invention has a prolonged durability and heightened reliability.
Abstract:
A process for manufacturing a hexagonal ferrite magnetic powder for a magnetic recording medium involves rapidly cooling a molten material of a glass-forming component and a hexagonal ferrite-forming component to obtain glass flakes, heating the glass flakes to precipitate ferrite fine grains, incompletely dissolving the glass flakes with an acid or boiling water, and separating and recovering the fine grains in the presence of a dispersing agent.