摘要 |
A bit patterned magnetic recording medium comprises a substrate having a surface, and a plurality of spaced apart magnetic elements on the surface, each element constituting a discrete magnetic domain or bit of the same structure and comprised of a stack of thin film layers including in order from the substrate surface: a seed layer; and a perpendicular magnetic recording layer in contact with a surface of the seed layer and comprising a Co 1-x-yPtxCry alloy material, where 0.05@x@0.35 and 0@y@0.15. The Co1-x-yPtxCry alloy material has a first order magnetic anisotropy constant K1 up to about 2�107 erg/cm3, a saturation magnetization Ms up to about 1200 emu/cm3, an anisotropy field HK=2K1/Ms up to about 35 kOe, a hexagonal (0001) crystal structure with c-axis perpendicular to a surface thereof, and an X-Ray diffraction (XRD) rocking curve with a full width at half maximum (FWHM) of ~5� or less. |