Perpendicular magnetic recording media, manufacturing process of the same, and magnetic storage apparatus using the same

摘要

A perpendicular recording medium includes a perpendicular recording layer formed over a substrate through a soft magnetic underlayer, the soft magnetic underlayer then being arranged to include a plurality of soft magnetic layers physically separated by a non-magnetic layer, and further, the soft magnetic layers being formed of nanocrystals, with these arrangements, local magnetic loops are formed between the soft magnetic layers that are adjacent to each other through the non-magnetic layer, thereby suppressing spike noise and modulation that arises from the soft magnetic underlayer.