TY - JOUR
T1 - Fabrication of patterned magnetic nanomaterials for data storage media
AU - Choi, Chulmin
AU - Noh, Kunbae
AU - Kuru, Cihan
AU - Chen, Li Han
AU - Seong, Tae Yeon
AU - Jin, Sungho
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors wish to acknowledge the financial support of this work by NSF-Nanomanufacturing Division (CMMI #0856674), CMRR (Center for Magnetic Recording Research) at University of California-San Diego, National Research Foundation (NRF) Grant through World Class University Program (R33-2008-000-10025-0), CNMT Grant Frontier R&D Program, and the National Program for Tera-Level Nanodevices.
PY - 2012/10
Y1 - 2012/10
N2 - Patterned media (PM) for magnetic information storage have received increased attention in recent years as the primary candidate for 1 Terabit/in 2 or higher recording density for computer hard disk drives. A PM consists of a periodic array of well-defined magnetic islands, each of which can store one bit of data. In the simplest scheme, the structures could be magnetic pillars and dots with a single easy axis of magnetization. The direction of detected magnetization by the read/write head is interpreted as a binary signal 1 or 0. Some of the main technical issues in the PM include the difficulty in fabricating small nanoisland arrays in a periodic fashion over large areas, reliability/ reproducibility of magnetic bit characteristics, as well as wear and head flyability issues associated with the media surface roughness, and processing cost. This article deals with a recent investigation of various fabrication approaches, nanostructural features, and magnetic properties for the bit PM.
AB - Patterned media (PM) for magnetic information storage have received increased attention in recent years as the primary candidate for 1 Terabit/in 2 or higher recording density for computer hard disk drives. A PM consists of a periodic array of well-defined magnetic islands, each of which can store one bit of data. In the simplest scheme, the structures could be magnetic pillars and dots with a single easy axis of magnetization. The direction of detected magnetization by the read/write head is interpreted as a binary signal 1 or 0. Some of the main technical issues in the PM include the difficulty in fabricating small nanoisland arrays in a periodic fashion over large areas, reliability/ reproducibility of magnetic bit characteristics, as well as wear and head flyability issues associated with the media surface roughness, and processing cost. This article deals with a recent investigation of various fabrication approaches, nanostructural features, and magnetic properties for the bit PM.
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U2 - 10.1007/s11837-012-0440-z
DO - 10.1007/s11837-012-0440-z
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84868600865
VL - 64
SP - 1165
EP - 1173
JO - JOM
JF - JOM
SN - 1047-4838
IS - 10
ER -