Noise reduction in heat-assisted magnetic recording by optimizing a high/low Tc bilayer structure

Abstract

It is assumed that heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) is the recording technique of the future. For pure hard magnetic grains in high density media with an average diameter of $5$nm and a height of $10$nm the switching probability is not sufficiently high for the use in bit-patterned media. Using a bilayer structure with 50$\%$ hard magnetic material with low Curie temperature and 50$\%$ soft magnetic material with high Curie temperature to obtain more than 99.2$\%$ switching probability, leads to very large jitter. We propose an optimized material composition to reach a switching probability of $P_{\mathrm{switch}}>99.2\%$ and simultaneously achieve the narrow transition jitter of pure hard magnetic material. Simulations with a continuous laser spot were performed with the atomistic simulation program VAMPIRE for a single cylindrical recording grain with a diameter of 5nm and a height of 10nm. Different configurations of soft magnetic material and different amounts of hard and soft magnetic material were tested and discussed. Within our analysis, a composition with 20$\%$ soft magnetic and $80\%$ hard magnetic material reaches the best results with a switching probability $P_{\mathrm{switch}}>99.2\%$, an off-track jitter parameter ${\sigma }_{\mathrm{off},80/20}=14.2$K and a down-track jitter parameter ${\sigma }_{\mathrm{down},80/20}=0.49$nm.

arXiv comment7 pages, 10 figures

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