Bit Patterned Magnetic Recording: Theory, Media Fabrication, and Recording Performance

Autor: Yuri N. Obukhov, Tsai-Wei Wu, Manfred Ernst Schabes, Olav Hellwig, Kurt A. Rubin, Dan S. Kercher, Zuwei Liu, Daniel Bedau, Toshiki Hirano, Bruce Alvin Gurney, Kanaiyalal C. Patel, David Berman, C. Mathew Mate, J.-M. L. Beaujour, Julia D. Cushen, Pierre-Olivier Jubert, Hitesh Arora, Alexei Bogdanov, Weldon Mark Hanson, E. Dobisz, Gregory S. Doerk, Vipin Ayanoor-Vitikkate, He Gao, Thomas R. Albrecht, Ricardo Ruiz, Michael Grobis, Dieter Weller, En Yan, Lei Wan, Yves-Andre Chapuis, Jeffrey S. Lille
Rok vydání: 2015
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DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1503.06664
Popis: Bit Patterned Media (BPM) for magnetic recording provide a route to densities $>1 Tb/in^2$ and circumvents many of the challenges associated with conventional granular media technology. Instead of recording a bit on an ensemble of random grains, BPM uses an array of lithographically defined isolated magnetic islands, each of which stores one bit. Fabrication of BPM is viewed as the greatest challenge for its commercialization. In this article we describe a BPM fabrication method which combines e-beam lithography, directed self-assembly of block copolymers, self-aligned double patterning, nanoimprint lithography, and ion milling to generate BPM based on CoCrPt alloys. This combination of fabrication technologies achieves feature sizes of $
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Databáze: OpenAIRE