Amorphous Magnetic Film Patterned Media with Columnar Structure

Recording performances in perpendicular magnetic patterned media

We report on the recording performances and signal-to-noise ratio analyses of perpendicular magnetic bit-patterned media. Two different types of magnetic samples are investigated. They differ by the way that they were patterned (nano-imprint versus e-beam lithography) as well as their magnetic properties (Co/Pt multilayers and CoCrPt alloy are the recording layers). By using a contact read/writ...

Signal Processing for Bit-Patterned Media and Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording Systems with Media Noise

With the advent of the information age, the demand for larger storage capacity is ever increasing. However, the need to continue scaling conventional magnetic recording technologies to higher areal densities has led to physical and engineering limits which are difficult to overcome. New magnetic recording technologies are required. Bit-patterned media recording (BPMR) and heat-assisted magnetic...

Structure and Hysteresis of Patterned Soft-Magnetic Structure

Percolation in Media with Columnar Disorder

We study a generalization of site percolation on a simple cubic lattice, where not only single sites are removed randomly, but also entire parallel columns of sites. We show that typical clusters near the percolation transition are very anisotropic, with different scaling exponents for the sizes parallel and perpendicular to the columns. Below the critical point there is a Griffiths phase where...

Photoresist-Free Fully Self-Patterned Transparent Amorphous Oxide Thin-Film Transistors Obtained by Sol-Gel Process

We demonstrated self-patterned solution-processed amorphous oxide semiconductor thin-film transistors (TFTs) using photosensitive sol-gels. The photosensitive sol-gels were synthesized by adding β-diketone compounds, i.e., benzoylacetone and acetylacetone, to sol-gels. The chemically modified photosensitive sol-gels showed a high optical absorption at specific wavelengths due to the formation o...