• DocumentCode
    866144
  • Title

    Signal to noise ratio of thin film disks with various orientation ratios

  • Author

    Mirzamaani, M. ; Re, M. ; Lambert, S.E. ; Praino, A. ; Petersen, T.S. ; Johnson, K.E.

  • Author_Institution
    IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
  • Volume
    26
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    1990
  • fDate
    9/1/1990 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    2457
  • Lastpage
    2459
  • Abstract
    Thin-film disks with various orientation ratios (OR) ranging from 0.5 to 4.3 were fabricated by sputter deposition of CoPtCr with Cr underlayers onto preheated NiP/Al-Mg disks. The recording characteristics of these disks were investigated using a thin-film head. The isolated pulse signal amplitude-to-media noise ratio (So/N) increased when OR was increased from 0.5 to 1 and then remained relatively constant for OR⩾1. An improvement of about 10 dB in overwrite of the disks with OR>1 was observed
  • Keywords
    magnetic disc storage; magnetic heads; magnetic thin film devices; CoPtCr-NiP-AlMg; isolated pulse signal amplitude-to-media noise ratio; orientation ratios; overwrite; recording characteristics; sputter deposition; thin film disks; thin-film head; Chromium; Disk recording; Magnetic anisotropy; Magnetic heads; Magnetic recording; Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy; Signal to noise ratio; Sputtering; Substrates; Transistors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9464
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/20.104763
  • Filename
    104763