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:
Disclosed is a perpendicular magnetic recording medium wherein an under layer (2) made of a material containing Si and/or Ge as its principal ingredient is deposited on a substrate (1), and a perpendicular magnetic film (3) made of a Co-based alloy is deposited on the under layer. With the perpendicular magnetic recording medium, the perpendicular magnetic film has an enhanced degree of C-axis orientation, and the bond strength between the perpendicular magnetic film and the substrate is also enhanced when the substrate is non-metallic.
Abstract:
In manufacturing a magnetic recording medium by vapour-depositing a magnetic metal film (10) containing Co-Cr with 70 - 90 weight % Co as host material on a high polymer substrate (1), with or without intermediate layer(s) (8,9) inbetween, by making the high polymer substrate run around a cylindrical can (2), conditions are selected such that linear expansion coefficient of the substrate is 1.0 x 10 -5 -2.9 x 10 -5 /°C and temperature of the can surface is 150° - 300°C; thereby normal or inverse curling of the resultant recording medium is substantially eliminated.
Abstract:
@ A magnetic recording medium has a non-magnetic substrate, a magnetic layer formed on the surface of the substrate from a ferromagnetic material, and a protective film formed on the magnetic layer. The protective film is constituted by a singular layer of continuous or dispersed molecular structures in which carbon element and an element constituting the magnetic layer are bonded directly or indirectly through oxygen and at least one fluorine element is bonded to the carbon element. This magnetic recording medium can be produced by a method comprising preparing a substrate of a non-magnetic material, forming a magnetic layer of a ferromagnetic material on the surface of the substrate, and forming, by a plasma CVD method, a protective film of a fluorine-containing molecular body having a thickness not greater than a value equivalent to 5 A on the surface of the mag tic layer.
Abstract:
A vertical magnetic recording medium comprises a non-magnetic substrate (1, 12. 18). a permalloy film (4. 5, 13. 19) consisting of plural permalloy layers (6. 6', 14: 20a. 20b'. 24a, 24b. 24ci separated by at least one non-magnetic layer (7, 7', 15. 21. 23' 25.25') placed therein, each of said plurality of permalloy layers being 2000 A or less thick, and a Co-Cr vertical magnetization film (2. 22) formed on the permalloy film directly or through another non-magnetic layer (11.16).
Abstract:
A perpendicular magnetic recording medium free from spike noise having a high permeability magnetic material film (2), an antiferromagnetic material film (6) and a perpendicularly oriented magnetic material film (3) formed on a substrate (1) in this order. Another high permeability magnetic material film (9) may be formed between the antiferromagnetic material film and the perpendicularly oriented magnetic material film. During the formation of the antiferromagnetic material film (6), a magnetic field is applied in a direction of a track width.
Abstract:
In a process involving the successive formation of a soft magnetic film substantially consisting of Fe and Ni and a perpendicular magnetic film on a plastic substrate, the soft magnetic film is vacuum-deposited while its formation position is irradiated with an ion-beam so as to prevent cracks and lessen coercive force. Apparatus for carrying out the deposition of the soft magnetic film includes a vacuum chamber (8) divided by a partition (7) into an upper chamber (9) and a lower chamber (10) which can be exhausted through outlets (11) and (12). The film substrate strip (6) is fed from a roll (1) round a cooled drum (3) to a winder (5). An evaporator (16) contains an iron-nickel ingot (15), and ion-beam radiation issues from the source (17). A screen (13) has an aperture (14) which limits the incident angle of the ion-beam onto the position of the substrate (6) passing round the drum (3).
Abstract:
@ A new high quality, low cost, thin-film magnetic recording member is provided, which has a coercive field strength greater than 650 Oe, a saturation magnetization greater than 10,000 Gauss, and a squareness ratio of 0.9 or larger. The member includes a substrate on which is directly sputter deposited a chromium layer, without the use of an intervening nickel-containing layer between the substrate and the chromium. A nickel-cobalt recording layer is then sputter deposited directly onto the chromium layer. In the preferred mode, the start of that nickel-cobalt deposition begins less than 100 seconds after the chromium deposition is terminated and is followed by the sputtering of a protective layer. Before the chromium deposition, the substrate is preheated to drive off adsorbed gases, and to establish the proper conditions forthe chromium deposition. The substrate is also heated during the time between when the chromium deposition ends and the nickel-cobalt deposition begins.
Abstract:
A film type multilayer magnetic recording medium comprised of a film applied to a substratum in which coating film needle-shaped magnetic grains are orientated with their longitudinal axes perpendicular to the film surface in a multilayer state and having a film thickness of 1.1 to 2.0 times the average length of the grains, has an excellent property, because the angular ratio (Br Bs) of both horizontal and vertical components respectively are 0.6 or more. As a result, it is possible to attain a high density recording. The film type multilayer magnetic recording medium of the present inventions is manufactured by applying a fluid film forming material, in which neddle-shaped magnetic grains are dispersed to form a coating film having the thickness of 1.1 to 2.0 times the average length of the magnetic grains on a substratum, and then drying or hardening the film forming material in a magnetic field orientated perpendicularly toward the film surface.
Abstract:
A magnetic recording medium having two magnetic layers, which comprises an upper magnetic layer and a lower magnetic layer, said lower magnetic layer having a coercive force of at least 100 oersteds, preferably 100 to 500 oersteds, lower than that of the upper magnetic layer, the thickness of the upper and lower magnetic layers being in the ratio of the thickness of the upper magnetic layer to that of the lower magnetic layer of 1/1 to 1/9, and the total coercive force of the upper and lower magnetic layers being 1,000 oersteds or more. The magnetic recording medium has excellent sensitivity and frequency characteristics at low and high frequency bands with less noise.