Title :
Challenges in developing FePt L10 granular thin film media for Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR)
Author_Institution :
HGST, San Jose, CA, USA
Abstract :
In this paper, the author highlight challenges and opportunities in the currently ongoing HAMR media development. This will include moving from spherical grains to vertically more columnar and laterally more Voronoi-shaped grain growth, reducing the number of misaligned in-plane grains in the media layer for obtaining full remanent moment, lowering sigma TC distributions and identifying possible sources of undesired sigma T distributions.
Keywords :
grain growth; iron alloys; magnetic moments; magnetic thin films; metallic thin films; platinum alloys; remanence; thermomagnetic recording; FePt; FePt granular thin film media; HAMR media development; full remanent moment; heat assisted magnetic recording; laterally more Voronoi-shaped grain growth; misaligned in-plane grains; sigma T distributions; spherical grains; vertically more columnar grain growth; Anisotropic magnetoresistance; Grain size; Heat-assisted magnetic recording; Heating; Media; Perpendicular magnetic recording;
Conference_Titel :
Magnetics Conference (INTERMAG), 2015 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-7321-7
DOI :
10.1109/INTMAG.2015.7156495