scholarly journals Micromagnetic Simulation of L10-FePt-Based Exchange-Coupled-Composite-Bit-Patterned Media with Microwave-Assisted Magnetic Recording at Ultrahigh Areal Density

Micromachines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 1264
Author(s):  
Pirat Khunkitti ◽  
Naruemon Wannawong ◽  
Chavakon Jongjaihan ◽  
Apirat Siritaratiwat ◽  
Anan Kruesubthaworn ◽  
...  

In this work, we propose exchange-coupled-composite-bit-patterned media (ECC-BPM) with microwave-assisted magnetic recording (MAMR) to improve the writability of the magnetic media at a 4 Tb/in2 recording density. The suitable values of the applied microwave field’s frequency and the exchange coupling between magnetic dots, Adot, of the proposed media were evaluated. It was found that the magnitude of the switching field, Hsw, of the bilayer ECC-BPM is significantly lower than that of a conventional BPM. Additionally, using the MAMR enables further reduction of Hsw of the ECC-BPM. The suitable frequency of the applied microwave field for the proposed media is 5 GHz. The dependence of Adot on the Hsw was additionally examined, showing that the Adot of 0.14 pJ/m is the most suitable value for the proposed bilayer ECC-BPM. The physical explanation of the Hsw of the media under a variation of MAMR and Adot was given. Hysteresis loops and the magnetic domain of the media were characterized to provide further details on the results. The lowest Hsw found in our proposed media is 12.2 kOe, achieved by the bilayer ECC-BPM with an Adot of 0.14 pJ/m using a 5 GHz MAMR.

Author(s):  
Jia-Yang Juang ◽  
Kuan-Te Lin

Bit patterned media (BPM) is considered as a revolutionary technology to enable further increase of areal density of magnetic recording beyond 1 Tbits/in2 [1]. Implementing BPM technology, however, significantly increases the complexity of the recording process, but also poses tremendous tribological challenges on the head-disk interface (HDI) [2]. One of the major challenges facing BPM is touchdown detection by thermal flying-height control (TFC), in which a minute heater located near the read/write transducers is used to thermally protrude a small portion of the slider into contact with the disk, and the contact is then detected by directly or indirectly measuring the friction, temperature rise or vibration caused by the contact [3]–[7]. Most recording heads rely on touchdown detection to achieve a desired flying height (FH), which approaches sub-1-nm regime for many of today’s commercial drives. As a result sensitive and accurate touchdown detection is of critical importance for a reliable head-disk interface by reducing contact duration and unnecessary interaction between the slider and the disk. However, the impact of touchdown on the mechanical robustness of the media has not been properly studied.


2014 ◽  
Vol 931-932 ◽  
pp. 1265-1269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naruemon Wannawong ◽  
Warunee Tipcharoen ◽  
Arkom Kaewrawang

To overcome superparamagnetic limit, microwave assisted magnetic recording (MAMR) is one interesting magnetic recording technology. Therefore, the effect of microwave on magnetization reversal in media should be analyzed. In this work, we propose the MAMR to decrease switching field (coercivity, Hsw) in exchange coupled composite (ECC) media by using the micromagnetic simulation based on the Landau - Lifshitz - Gilbert equation. The Hsw of single layer and ECC media without microwave field is 110.90 and 7.7 kOe, respectively. When the oscillating microwave field is added, Hsw of single layer media with microwave frequency of 2.5 - 40 GHz is lower than 110.90 kOe. Likewise, Hsw of ECC media with microwave frequency of 5 - 16 GHz is lower than 7.7 kOe and has the lowest value of 4.9 kOe at frequency of 10 GHz. The results from this work lead to solve superparamagnetic limit and increase areal density in hard disk drive.


2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Warunee Tipcharoen ◽  
Arkom Kaewrawang ◽  
Apirat Siritaratiwat

Exchange coupled composite bit patterned media (ECC-BPM) are one candidate to solve the trilemma issues, overcome superparamagnetic limitations, and obtain ultrahigh areal density. In this work, the ECC continuous media and ECC-BPM of Fe/L10-FePt/Fe trilayer schemes are proposed and investigated based on the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation. The switching field,Hsw, of the hard phase in the proposed continuous ECC trilayer media structure is reduced below the maximum write head field at interlayer exchange coupling between hard and soft phases,Aex, higher than 20 pJ/m and its value is lower than that for continuousL10-FePt single layer media andL10-FePt/Fe bilayer. Furthermore, theHswof the proposed ECC-BPM is lower than the maximum write head field with exchange coupling coefficient between neighboring dots of 5 pJ/m andAexover 10 pJ/m. Therefore, the proposed ECC-BPM trilayer has the highest potential and is suitable for ultrahigh areal density magnetic recording technology at ultrahigh areal density. The results of this work may be gainful idea for nanopatterning in magnetic media nanotechnology.


Author(s):  
Shaomin Xiong ◽  
Robert Smith ◽  
Na Wang ◽  
Dongbo Li ◽  
Erhard Schreck ◽  
...  

Heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) promises to deliver higher storage areal density than the current perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) product. A laser is introduced to the HAMR system to heat the high coercively magnetic media above the Curie temperature (Tc) which is as high as 750 K in order to enable magnetic writing. The thermal response of the media becomes very critical for the success of the data writing process. In this paper, a new method is proposed to understand the transient thermal behavior of the HAMR media. The temperature response of the media is measured based on thermal erasure of the magnetically written signal. A lumped model is built to simplify the heat conduction problem to understand the transient thermal response. Finite element modeling (FEM) is implemented to simulate the transient thermal response of the media due to the laser pulse heating. The experimental and simulation results show fairly good agreement.


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