| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7588842 |
Perpendicular magnetic recording medium with a pinned soft underlayer |
September 15, 2009 |
| A magnetic recording medium and a magnetic recording apparatus for perpendicular magnetic recording. The recording medium includes a magnetically soft underlayer and a hard magnetic pinning layer having perpendicular anisotropy. The magnetically soft underlayer is substantially free |
| 7566507 |
Magnetic recording medium, magnetic storage apparatus and method of producing magnetic recording |
July 28, 2009 |
| A magnetic recording medium is provided with an hcp Co alloy magnetic layer with the crystallographic c-axes tilted at an angle from a substrate surface and fixed relative to a recording direction. The tilt is induced by epitaxial growth of the hcp Co alloy on an obliquely evaporated |
| 7354665 |
Magnetic recording medium and magnetic storage apparatus |
April 8, 2008 |
| A magnetic recording medium is provided with a substrate, a recording magnetic layer made of a CoCr alloy and having a (11 20) crystallographic texture, and an underlayer, made of an AlV or AlRuV alloy, disposed between the substrate and the magnetic layer. |
| 7264892 |
Magnetic recording medium and magnetic storage apparatus |
September 4, 2007 |
| A magnetic recording medium includes a substrate, a magnetic recording layer made of a Co alloy or a CoCr alloy, a seed layer disposed between the substrate and the magnetic recording layer, and an underlayer made of a binary alloy material having a B2 structure and disposed between the |