Magnetic recording medium and method for producing the same

摘要

A magnetic tape having a polymer substrate and a magnetic layer which is formed directly on a surface of the substrate or on a primer layer formed on the substrate and contains cobalt, oxygen and optionally nickel, in which a coercive force is at least 120 kA/m and a squareness ratio is at least 0.9 in a hysteresis loop which is obtained when a magnetic field is applied in a plane of the magnetic layer in a longitudinal direction of the magnetic tape, and on the hysteresis loop, an intensity of the applied magnetic field, at which a magnetization when the applied magnetic field is increased is 99% of the magnetization when the applied magnetic field is decreased, is not larger than 400 kA/m, and preferably, a ratio of a value of magnetization at an intersection between a tangential line drawn at a point which gives a residual magnetization at the applied magnetic field of 0 (zero) and a tangential line drawn at a point which gives a coercive force with a magnetization of 0 in a second quadrant to said residual magnetization is at least 0.9, which magnetic tape has improved high density recording/reproducing properties.