Abstract:
The present invention provides an electron beam heating vacuum deposition apparatus in which the generating body (5) of said electron beam comprises at least 95 at % of tantalum and a process for preparing a magnetic recording medium comprising vapor-depositing a ferromagnetic metal onto a non-magnetic substrate (12) with an electron beam heating vapor deposition apparatus, in which process the generating body (5) of said electron beam comprises at least 95 at % of tantalum.
Abstract:
A magnetic recording medium comprising a non-magnetic substrate, a ferromagnetic metal (12) laid on the non-magnetic substrate (4) and a protective film (13) laid on the ferromagnetic metal film (12), the ferromagnetic metal film (12) and the protective film (13) being composed of aggregates of columnar particles inclined to the normal line to the non-magnetic substrate (4) and the protective film (13) being free of highly inclined aggregates of columnar particles has improved corrosion resistance and wearing resistance.
Abstract:
A magnetic recording medium comprising a substrate and, as a recording layer, a ferromagnetic metal thin layer formed on the substrate by deposition, in which the ferromagnetic metal thin layer contains oxygen atom in such a manner that concentrations of oxygen atom in a surface layer and an interfacial layer adjacent to the substrate are higher than that in an intermediate layer between the surface and interfacial layers, which has improved coercive force and smaller magnetic domain.
Abstract:
A magnetic recording medium comprising a substrate and a ferromagnetic metal layer, wherein the ferromagnetic metal layer has a skin layer consisting of an amorphous cobalt compound, X-ray photoelectron spectra of which is characterized in that, in the C 02 p spectrum, a ratio of a peak height at 785.9±0.3 eV to that at 780.0±0.3 eV is 40/100 or less when a background (BG) line is drawn between lower energy side leading edge points of peaks at 780.0±0.3 eV - (2p 3/2 ) and 795.6±0.3 eV (2p 1/2 ) and, in the O 1s spectrum, a ratio of a peak height at 529.3±0.4 eV to that at 530.8±0.4 eV is from 100:110 to 100:50 when a background line is drawn between the lower energy side leading edge point and the higher energy side leading edge point of a complex peak at 530.5±2.5 eV from which the peaks at 529.3±0.4 eV and 530.8±0.4 are derived by peak synthesis, which has good corrosion and wear resistance.
Abstract:
A magnetic recording medium comprising a substrate and, as a recording layer, a ferromagnetic metal thin layer formed on the substrate by deposition, in which the ferromagnetic metal thin layer contains oxygen atom in such a manner that concentrations of oxygen atom in a surface layer and an interfacial layer adjacent to the substrate are higher than that in an intermediate layer between the surface and interfacial layers, which has improved coercive force and smaller magnetic domain.