Magnetic recording medium and method for producing the same.

摘要

A magnetic recording medium comprising a substrate and a ferromagnetic metal layer, wherein the ferromagnetic metal layer has a skin layer consisting of an amorphous cobalt compound, X-ray photoelectron spectra of which is characterized in that, in the C<Sub>02</Sub>p spectrum, a ratio of a peak height at 785.9±0.3 eV to that at 780.0±0.3 eV is 40/100 or less when a background (BG) line is drawn between lower energy side leading edge points of peaks at 780.0±0.3 eV - (2p<Sub>3/2</Sub>) and 795.6±0.3 eV (2p<Sub>1/2</Sub>) and, in the O<Sub>1s</Sub>spectrum, a ratio of a peak height at 529.3±0.4 eV to that at 530.8±0.4 eV is from 100:110 to 100:50 when a background line is drawn between the lower energy side leading edge point and the higher energy side leading edge point of a complex peak at 530.5±2.5 eV from which the peaks at 529.3±0.4 eV and 530.8±0.4 are derived by peak synthesis, which has good corrosion and wear resistance.