Disk substrate for a perpendicular magnetic recording medium and a perpendicular magnetic recording medium using the substrate

摘要

A disk substrate for a perpendicular magnetic recording medium is, disclosed. The substrate exhibits sufficient productivity, serves the function of a soft magnetic backing layer of the perpendicular magnetic recording medium, and scarcely generates noise. A perpendicular magnetic recording medium using such a substrate also is disclosed. The disk substrate comprises at least a soft magnetic underlayer formed on a nonmagnetic base plate by means of an electroless plating method. The thermal expansion coefficient of the soft magnetic underlayer is larger than a thermal expansion coefficient of the nonmagnetic disk-shaped base plate. A saturation magnetostriction constant mus satisfies a relation lambdas>=-1x10^-5.