학술논문

Graded Media Design for Area Density of Up to 2.5 Tb/in$^{2}$
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Magnetics IEEE Trans. Magn. Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on. 46(6):1866-1868 Jun, 2010
Subject
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Magnetic anisotropy
Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy
Soft magnetic materials
Perpendicular magnetic recording
Magnetic domain walls
Magnetic domains
Thermal stability
Magnetic separation
Magnetic recording
Anisotropic magnetoresistance
Domain wall nucleation
domain wall propagation
graded media
perpendicular magnetic recording
Language
ISSN
0018-9464
1941-0069
Abstract
Feasibility of perpendicular magnetic recording up to an area density of 2.5 Tb/in$^{2}$ is investigated. Magnetic grains of 4 nm diameter with 1 nm oxide layer are required to achieve such a high density. Thermal stability of the grains is achieved by increasing the overall thickness of the grain. Magnetocrystalline anisotropy is graded within a grain in such a way that nucleation and propagation of the reversed domain wall matches with the available head field. Different design specifications are investigated to achieve higher objective function, i.e., energy barrier per switching field.