Abstract:
A mixture (10) including at least one iron oxide and a non-magnetic matrix material is melted (13) or vaporized and then heat is rapidly removed (12) from the material. The resulting magnetic oxide precipitates are densely packed in the non-magnetic matrix (16). The precipitates have a narrow particle size distribution which results in a high signal-to-noise ratio when the oxides are used for magnetic recording purposes. The non-magnetic matrix can be removed to yield homogeneous, small particle iron oxide containing magnetic powder. Alternatively, the non-magnetic matrix/iron oxide material can be processed to yield a shaped recording medium.
Abstract:
The ratio BrOR of the residual magnetic flux density in a circumferential direction to the residual magnetic flux density in a radial direction is 0.95 - 1.05 and the ratio HcOR of the coercive force in a circumferential direction to the coercive force in a radial direction is 1.05 - 1.2 in the substrate surface of a magnetic recording medium. Therefore, a high output resolution, a low medium noise and a high track recording density are simultaneously achieved in recording at a high line recording density. When a magnetic storage apparatus is constituted by using a high S/N magnetic recording medium like this, a magnetic disc apparatus which has a high surface recording density, is low in cost and small in size, and a large capacity and a high reliability can be provided.
Abstract:
A magnetic recording medium having a high areal recording density of about 3 to about 20 Gb/in , an Mrt of about 0.30 to about 0.60 memu/cm , a coercivity greater than 2,500 Oersteds and a coercivity squareness of about 0.70 to about 0.95 is obtained by depositing one or more pairs of magnetic layers (32, 33, 35, 36) comprising a magnetically isotropic layer (33) directly on a magnetically anisotropic layer (32). Chromium intermediate layers (34) are employed to separate each pair of magnetically isotropic/anisotropic layers. In one embodiment, the magnetically anisotropic layer comprises a cobalt-based alloy containing chromium and tantalum and the magnetically isotropic layer comprises a cobalt-base layer containing chromium, platinum and tantalum.
Abstract translation:具有约3至约20Gb / in 2的高面密度记录密度的磁记录介质,约0.3至约0.60logu / cm 2的Mrt,矫顽力大于2500奥斯特,矫顽力矩形度约为 通过将包含磁各向同性层(33)的一对或多对磁性层(32,33,35,36)直接沉积在磁各向异性层(32)上而获得0.70至约0.95。 铬中间层(34)用于分离每对磁各向同性/各向异性层。 在一个实施例中,磁各向异性层包括含有铬和钽的钴基合金,并且磁各向同性层包括含有铬,铂和钽的钴基层。
Abstract:
A recording medium (36) for data storage has a plurality of adjoining thin layers which share a crystalline grain structure (46, 48), the layers alternating between a magnetic cobalt alloy layer (40, 42) and a noble metal layer (37, 39, 41). The magnetic layer includes a nonmagnetic element having a tendency to segregate toward grain boundaries (43, 45, 47), so that adjacent grains are exchange isolated, lowering noise of the medium that otherwise occurs due to intragranular coupling. The nonmagnetic element may be C, Cr, W, V, or preferably T. The medium has an easy axis of magnetization perpendicular to the layers, affording stable high density data storage.
Abstract:
An operationally contacting hard disk drive system has reduced friction due to lower capillary adhesion between the disk surface (100) and a transducer in a substantially continuous sliding relationship with the surface. The disk surface has an array of protrusions (101) separated by generally flat recesses (102) that arise semispherically on a hard protective layer (104) that lies atop a magnetic medium layer (106), wherein each of those layers reflects the underlying texture layer (98) which is grown atop a silicon substrate (108), after bumps (102) have partially grown, yielding substantially flat sections (112) between the bumps (110). The surface roughness may increase in a radially graded fashion to compensate for the increased linear velocity and concomitant frictional power loss near the outer diameter of the disk. It is important that the uppermost reaches of the textured surface are smooth but not flat in order to obtain lasting low friction operation, which is accomplished by constructing the surface with a highesst approximately one percent having an average radius of curvature in a range between 2 microns and 100 microns. An area of the slider in apparent contact with the disk surface is preferably less than 1000 square microns, and a ratio between this nominal area and the mean to peak height is less than 0.3 meters. The slider may also include a substantial thickness of partially wetting materials having differing wear rates, or may alternatively be textured with deep grooves or materials having differing wear rates, in order to provide reduced frictional adhesion despite wear of the slider.
Abstract:
A magnetic disk substrate having the body made from glass, characterized by containing light-absorbing metal elements in at least the surface region of the substrate body and having a texture formed on the surface of the body. The metal elements are diffused in the surface region as metal ions or contained in the glass ingredients as metal oxides. Preferable examples of the glass include crystallized LiO2-Al2O3-SiO2 glasses, more particularly those composed of 65-85 wt.% SiO2, 8-15 wt.% Li2O, 2-8 wt.% Al2O3, 1-5 wt.% P2O5, and 1-10 wt.% ZrO2, and containing lithium disilicate (LiO2.2SiO2) as the principal crystal phase.
Abstract translation:一种具有由玻璃制成的主体的磁盘基片,其特征在于,在所述基板主体的至少表面区域中含有光吸收金属元件,并具有形成在所述主体表面上的纹理。 金属元素作为金属离子在表面区域扩散或作为金属氧化物包含在玻璃成分中。 玻璃的优选实例包括结晶的LiO 2 -Al 2 O 3 -SiO 2玻璃,更特别的是由65-85重量%SiO 2,8-15重量%Li 2 O,2-8重量%Al 2 O 3,1-5重量%P 2 O 5 ,和1-10重量%的ZrO 2,并且含有二硅酸锂(LiO 2·2SiO 2)作为主要结晶相。
Abstract:
A business card (11) has at least one magnetically codable strip (13) mounted on or in the card, codable to electrically store information relative to the purpose of the business card, such as phones, faxes, addresses, services, products, and so on. A coder-decoder (25) connectable to a general-purpose computer reads and writes information to and from the cards and to and from a database stored on a memory system of the computer. Apparatus is provided in one aspect of the invention for adding magnetic strips (13) to existing business cards.
Abstract:
An inexpensive high-density recording medium which is increased in coercive force without using expensive ferromagnetic metallic layer. In a magnetic recording medium on the substrate of which a ferromagnetic metallic layer is formed on a substrate with a metallic underlying layer in between and which utilizes reversal of magnetization, the oxygen concentration in the ferromagnetic metallic layer is below 100 wt. ppm, and in addition, the oxygen concentration in the metallic base layer is also below 100 wt. ppm. In a method of manufacturing a magnetic recording medium on the substrate of which the metallic base layer and ferromagnetic metallic layer are successively formed by sputtering, the impurity concentration of Ar gas used for the formation of the layers is below 10 ppb. Before forming the metallic base layer, in addition, the surface of the substrate is cleaned by high-frequency sputtering using Ar gas the impurity concentration of which is 10 ppb and the surface section of the substrate is partially removed to a depthof 0.2-1 nm.
Abstract:
A ferromagnetic metal thin film whose remanence coercive force has a temperature coefficient of 7 Oe/deg. - 12 Oe/deg. and has a temperature coefficient not larger than 1.7 x {(Ho - Hr)/T} (where Ho denotes the remanence coercive force when the influence of thermal fluctuation does not exist, Hr denotes the remanence coercive force and T denotes the absolute temperature) is used to reduce the medium noise at the time of reproduction and to suppress the temperature coefficient of the coercive force of a magnetic medium. A recording head whose magnetic pole is partially composed of the ferromagnetic metal thin film and a reproducing head in which a magnetoresistance effect device is used are combined to provide a magnetic disc apparatus which has a recording density not lower than 2 Gbit/in and can withstand an operation temperature of 0 - 60 DEG C.
Abstract:
A magnetic recording medium having a high coercive force of a ferromagnetic metal layer, a high anisotropic magnetic field and/or normalized coercive force, and adaptable to high density recording. The magnetic recording medium comprises a substrate and a ferromagnetic metal layer containing at least Co and Cr formed thereon via a metallic underlying layer of Cr. Magnetic inversion is utilized for the recording. A region (1) which penetrates through the ferromagnetic metal layer and in which Cr is segregated are formed among the crystalline particles constituting the ferromagnetic metal layer. The Cr concentration in the intermediate portions of the region (1) in the direction of thickness of the ferromagnetic metal layer is smaller than that of the portions near the surface and near the metallic underlying layer. The crystalline particles of the ferromagnetic metal layer are constituted by a region (2) in which the Cr concentration increases toward the grain boundary and a region (3) which is formed at the center of the crystalline particle and whose Cr concentration is lower than that near the grain boundary. The maximum Cr concentration in the region (3) is smaller than the maximum Cr concentration in the region (2).