Stock material or miscellaneous articles – Magnetic recording component or stock – Thin film media
Reexamination Certificate
2008-05-20
2008-05-20
Rickman, Holly (Department: 1794)
Stock material or miscellaneous articles
Magnetic recording component or stock
Thin film media
Reexamination Certificate
active
10976649
ABSTRACT:
A distribution of grain boundaries in a magnetic recording medium having a granular structure is reduced so that the magnetic recording medium with a high medium signal-to-noise ratio is provided. According to one embodiment, in an underlayer composed of grains each having a generally columnar structure and in a magnetic recording layer composed of magnetic crystal grains each having a generally columnar structure and grain boundaries, a grain size Dm of the magnetic recording layer and a grain size Du of each of the underlayer crystal grains are determined to satisfy a relationship represented by 0.8×Du≦Dm<Du and a standardized grain boundary distribution obtained by dividing the standardized deviation of the distribution of the grain boundaries by an average grain boundary width is adjusted to about 0.4 or less.
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Araki Ryoko
Takahashi Yoshio
Gold Darren
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies - Netherlands B.V.
Rickman Holly
Townsend and Townsend / and Crew LLP
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