Disk drive with laminated magnetic thin films with sublayers...

Stock material or miscellaneous articles – Magnetic recording component or stock – Thin film media

Reexamination Certificate

Rate now

  [ 0.00 ] – not rated yet Voters 0   Comments 0

Details

Reexamination Certificate

active

07976964

ABSTRACT:
The invention includes a disk drive with a magnetic recording disk with an upper and lower sublayer in at least one magnetic layer of a laminated magnetic layer structure that includes a spacer layer that substantially decouples the magnetic layers. The lower sublayer has a lower boron content than the upper sublayer and a preferred embodiment is CoPtCrBTa. The upper sublayer is deposited onto the lower sublayer and is preferably CoPtCrB with a higher boron content than the lower sublayer. The composition of the lower sublayer gives it a very low moment with low intrinsic coercivity which would not be useful as a recording layer on its own. The upper sublayer is a higher moment alloy with high intrinsic coercivity. An embodiment of the invention includes a laminated magnetic layer structure which is antiferromagnetically coupled to a lower ferromagnetic layer.

REFERENCES:
patent: 6280813 (2001-08-01), Carey et al.
patent: 6567236 (2003-05-01), Doerner et al.
patent: 6602612 (2003-08-01), Abarra et al.
patent: 6623875 (2003-09-01), Inomata et al.
patent: 6645614 (2003-11-01), Girt et al.
patent: 6645646 (2003-11-01), Umeda et al.
patent: 6689497 (2004-02-01), Girt
patent: 6737172 (2004-05-01), Girt
patent: 6761982 (2004-07-01), Sakawaki et al.
patent: 6773833 (2004-08-01), Inomata et al.
patent: 6773834 (2004-08-01), Do et al.
patent: 6777112 (2004-08-01), Girt et al.
patent: 6899959 (2005-05-01), Bertero et al.
patent: 2002/0098390 (2002-07-01), Do et al.
patent: 2003/0059648 (2003-03-01), Akimoto et al.
patent: 2003/0087135 (2003-05-01), Wang et al.
patent: 2003/0152805 (2003-08-01), Bertero et al.
patent: 2003/0170499 (2003-09-01), Okamoto
patent: 2006/0051620 (2006-03-01), Hinoue et al.
patent: 2006/0183003 (2006-08-01), Minardi et al.
patent: 2006/0210834 (2006-09-01), Do et al.
patent: 2006/0292401 (2006-12-01), Suzuki et al.
patent: 2007/0019328 (2007-01-01), Mirzamaani et al.
patent: 2007/0037015 (2007-02-01), Mirzamaani et al.
patent: 2003151116 (2003-05-01), None
patent: 2003303408 (2003-10-01), None
S. Pang, et al., “Advanced Laminated Antiferromagnetically Coupled Media with High Thermal Stability and Low Noise”, IEEE Trans. Magnetics, vol. 38, No. 5, Sep. 2002, p. 1940.
N. Abarra, et al., “Synthetic Ferrimagnetic Media”, Fujitsu Scientific Tech. J., 37,2.p. 145-154, Dec. 2001.

LandOfFree

Say what you really think

Search LandOfFree.com for the USA inventors and patents. Rate them and share your experience with other people.

Rating

Disk drive with laminated magnetic thin films with sublayers... does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.

If you have personal experience with Disk drive with laminated magnetic thin films with sublayers..., we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Disk drive with laminated magnetic thin films with sublayers... will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

     

Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-2679322

  Search
All data on this website is collected from public sources. Our data reflects the most accurate information available at the time of publication.