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Patterned Magnetic Recording Media – Issues and Challenges

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2016

Horia Gavrila  and
Doina Elena Gavrila
Horia Gavrila
Affiliation:
“Politehnica”University of Bucharest, 313 Splaiul Independentei, Bucharest 060042, Romania
Doina Elena Gavrila
Affiliation:
“Politehnica”University of Bucharest, 313 Splaiul Independentei, Bucharest 060042, Romania
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Abstract

The conventional magnetic recording approached the physical frontiers of the recording density. The magnetic recording must face the famous trilemma: In order to increase the recording density, smaller grain volumes are needed, but in order to ensure the thermal stability of recorded information, the anisotropy constant should be increased accordingly; what results is an increased anisotropy field, which requires higher writing fields. Such fields are unavailable with the maximum saturation magnetization obtainable with the magnetic materials of the current heads. In order to overcome these problems, new media structures have been proposed. The most promising is the bit-patterned magnetic media (BPM), intensively studied over the last years with the aim of obtaining obtain an ultra-high recording density of hard-disk drives. A BPM comprises monodisperse high-anisotropy nano-particles in a self-organized patterning. They have a higher thermal stability, a lower noise and a higher signal resolution, which leads to a higher recording density and a better SNR. They eliminate the transition noise and, due to the large fraction of the bit volume occupied by the magnetic dots, improve thermal stability. Nevertheless, some important issues such as long-range patterning, control of the surface roughness, signal readout, etc., remain critical problems to solve. Another challenge is the fact that recording on BPM is sensitive to the material and geometry parameter fluctuations that may lead to additional constraints and require tight synchronization of the write-field misregistration time and bit positions. A possible route to higher recording densities is to use a multilevel recording, where more than two states are stored per dot.

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MagnetizationMagnetic RecordingSuperparamagnetic
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1817: Symposium 1D – Nanostructured Materials and Nanotechnology—2015 , 2016 , imrc2015abs212
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2016 

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