WO2004019322A1 - 裏打ち磁性膜 - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a backing magnetic film, and more particularly to a backing magnetic film used as a backing layer of a perpendicular magnetic recording type information recording medium.
- a perpendicular magnetic recording type hard disk records information on a magnetic film (for example, TbFeCo) having perpendicular magnetic anisotropy.
- a soft magnetic film as a backing layer is provided between the substrate and the magnetic film in order to record and reproduce information on the magnetic film with high density and high efficiency. No. 762,022).
- the backing layer is formed as a film having a magnetization direction in the in-plane direction of the disk. This is because a large and steep magnetic field is obtained by a magnetic interaction between the magnetic head and the backing layer. Often used for perpendicular magnetic recording on magnetic films. From the viewpoint of recording / reproduction efficiency, a magnetic material having a small coercive force Hc such as a FeNi alloy is used for the backing layer.
- the noise generated by the backing layer be reduced and that the saturation magnetization Ms be as large as possible.
- the noise generated by the backing layer includes
- the thickness of the backing layer is increased (for example, 7 O nm or more), noise occurs in a portion of the disk where the magnetic anisotropy is not uniform. This is the noise generated by the backing layer forming the domain wall.
- striped magnetic domain noise has a laminated structure in which the backing layer is composed of a soft magnetic layer and a non-magnetic layer, and the soft magnetic layer has a thickness of 100 nm and the non-magnetic layer has a thickness of 5 nm. It can be reduced by setting it to the degree.
- the backing layer has a laminated structure as described above, the thickness of the soft magnetic layer is about 20 nm, the thickness of the nonmagnetic layer is about 5 nm, and this cycle is repeated several times. (Amplitude) is suppressed. It is known that the axis of easy magnetization of the soft magnetic layer needs to be aligned in the radial direction of the disk-shaped substrate in order to reduce spike noise spk.
- spike noise spk is likely to occur when the domain wall structure of the backing layer is a Bloch domain wall, and spike noise spk does not occur when the domain wall structure is a Nehru domain wall. It is known that the Bloch domain wall becomes dominant as the thickness of the backing layer increases, and that the Nehru domain wall dominates when the film thickness is small (about 20 nm). (1) In order to reduce spike noise, the domain wall structure is reduced from the Bloch domain wall to the Neel domain wall by reducing the thickness of the backing layer stacking unit.
- the present invention provides a backing magnetic film in which the saturation magnetization Ms is large, the axis of easy magnetization is aligned in the radial direction of the substrate, the Neel domain wall is dominant, and the magnitude (amplitude) of spike noise is suppressed.
- the backing magnetic film of the present invention has a configuration in which a soft magnetic layer containing iron and carbon as main components and a non-magnetic layer are alternately laminated, is formed on a substrate, and has an easy axis. It is characterized by being inward and in the radial direction of the substrate, and having a saturation magnetization Ms of 100 emu / cc or more.
- the total film thickness is 10 nm or more and 25 nm or less.
- the domain wall of the soft magnetic layer mainly has a Neel domain wall structure.
- the soft magnetic layer is preferably made of a magnetic material mainly composed of Fe and a non-magnetic material containing a metalloid element, and the non-magnetic layer is made of a dielectric material. It is preferable that the material is a main component, and the specific resistance of the nonmagnetic layer is higher than the specific resistance of the soft magnetic layer.
- the coercive force Hc0 of the backing magnetic film along the direction of the easy axis is Hc0-0.5 Oersted
- the coercive force Hcl of the soft magnetic layer itself is Hel ⁇ 2 Oersted.
- a backing magnetic film is provided.
- the present invention provides a backing magnetic film having a surface roughness Ra adjusted to Ra ⁇ l nm.
- FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of an embodiment of the information recording medium of the present invention.
- FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of the backing magnetic film of the present invention.
- FIG. 3 is a graph of the saturation magnetization M s with respect to the thickness of the soft magnetic layer in the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 4 is a graph of the coercive force He with respect to the thickness of the soft magnetic layer in the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 5 is a graph of the medium noise Nm with respect to the thickness of the soft magnetic layer in the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 6 is a graph of spike noise amplitude spk with respect to the thickness of the soft magnetic layer in the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 7 is a graph showing the relationship between the coercive force He and the medium noise Nm in the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 8 is a graph of the specific resistance of the material of the nonmagnetic layer in the second embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 9 is a graph of the coercive force He for the material of the nonmagnetic layer in the second embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 10 is a graph of the medium noise Nm with respect to the material of the non-magnetic layer in the second embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 11 is a graph of the spike noise amplitude spk for the material of the nonmagnetic layer in the second embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 12 is a graph of the coercive force He versus the sputter gas pressure of the nonmagnetic layer in the third embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 13 is a graph of the medium noise Nm with respect to the sputter gas pressure of the non-magnetic layer in the third embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 14 is a graph of spike noise amplitude spk versus sputter gas pressure of the nonmagnetic layer in the third embodiment.
- FIG. 15 is a graph of the surface roughness Ra of the nonmagnetic layer versus the sputter gas pressure in Example 3.
- FIG. 16 is a graph showing the relationship between the surface roughness Ra and the medium noise Nm in the third embodiment.
- FIG. 17 is a graph showing the saturation magnetization Ms with respect to the thickness of the single-layer soft magnetic film in Example 4 of the present invention.
- FIG. 18 is a graph showing the coercive force He with respect to the thickness of a single-layer soft magnetic film in Example 4 of the present invention.
- FIG. 19 is a graph showing the medium noise Nm with respect to the thickness of the single-layer soft magnetic film in the fourth embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 20 is a graph showing the spike noise amplitude spk with respect to the thickness of the single-layer soft magnetic film in the fourth embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 21 is a graph showing the relationship between the coercive force He and the medium noise Nm in the fourth embodiment of the present invention.
- the backing magnetic film of the present invention is a magnetic film having a multilayer structure in which a soft magnetic layer and a nonmagnetic layer are laminated.
- the present invention provides a backing magnetic film satisfying all the following characteristics.
- (1) The easy axis of magnetization of the soft magnetic layer is in the in-plane direction of the substrate and aligned in the radial direction.
- the saturation magnetization Ms is greater than 1000 emu / cc.
- the domain wall of the soft magnetic layer has a Neel domain wall structure.
- the soft magnetic layer 2a and the nonmagnetic layer 2b are alternately laminated on the backing magnetic film 2 of the present invention as shown in FIG.
- the soft magnetic layer 2a is made of a material mainly composed of iron and carbon
- the nonmagnetic layer 2b is mainly composed of a dielectric material, and softens the specific resistance of the nonmagnetic layer 2b.
- the magnetic layer 2a is formed of a material larger than the specific resistance.
- the total thickness of the laminated soft magnetic layer 2a and nonmagnetic layer 2b per cycle is 10 nm or more and 25 nm or less, and the soft magnetic layer 2a is made of FeCoSiC or FeS Use i C or F e C.
- the Fe Co S i C preferably using a (F e C o) 75 S i 12 C 13, more preferably, using an Fe 65 Co 10 S i 12 C 13.
- the FeSiC using F e 75 S i 12 C 13 .
- FIG. 1 is a sectional structural view of an embodiment of an information recording medium having a backing magnetic film according to the present invention.
- the information recording medium of the present invention comprises a substrate 1 (glass substrate, silicon substrate, etc.), a backing magnetic film 2, a non-magnetic intermediate film 3 (Ni P), the perpendicular recording film 4 (TbFeCo film), and the protective film 5 (SiN, etc.) are formed in this order by a method such as sputtering.
- the soft magnetic layer 2a constituting the backing magnetic film 2 of the present invention is generally formed as a mixed film of a magnetic element and a non-magnetic element.
- iron (Fe) and carbon (C) are the main components.
- the material to be used are the material to be used.
- a metalloid element Si, B, P, etc.
- carbon (C) typified by carbon
- the non-magnetic layer 2b may be composed mainly of a dielectric material such as carbon and containing other elements.
- the non-magnetic layer 2b may be made of a semiconductor (Si). C), nitrides (SiN), and oxides (SiO, TiO) can be used.
- the material of the nonmagnetic layer 2b preferably has a specific resistance (jQ-cm) larger than that of the soft magnetic layer 2a.
- the total thickness of the soft magnetic layer 2a and the nonmagnetic layer 2b per one cycle of the backing magnetic film 2 is preferably 10 nm or more and 25 nm or less.
- the soft magnetic layer 2 & is preferably about 511111 to 2011111. This is because the backing magnetic layer 2 as a whole has sufficient soft magnetic properties and sufficiently suppresses the magnitude (amplitude) of the spike noise spk.
- the sufficient soft magnetic property means that the coercive force He is about 2 Oe or less.
- a maximum of 20 O V is a standard.
- the magnetization of the domain wall region is oriented in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the magnetic film, and thus a spike noise spk is generated due to the magnetic flux due to the perpendicular magnetization.
- the Neel domain wall is mainly formed, the magnetization in the domain wall region is all directed to the in-plane direction and rotates in the plane, so that the magnetic flux does not leak in the vertical direction. That is, spike noise does not occur when only the nail domain wall is formed.
- the film thickness of the soft magnetic layer 2a is thin so that mainly a Neel domain wall is formed.
- a medium was prepared in which a backing magnetic film 2 and a protective film 5 were formed on a substrate 1 in this order.
- Substrate 1 2.5 inch disk-shaped glass substrate
- Soft magnetic layer 2 a 5 nm, 10 nm, or 20 nm magnetic film
- Nonmagnetic layer 2 b 5 nm carbon (C) film
- the backing magnetic film 2 is formed by stacking several layers of one soft magnetic layer 2a and one nonmagnetic layer 2b (referred to as one unit).
- the total film thickness of a was set to 100 nm.
- the thickness of the soft magnetic layer 2a in one unit is set to 2 Onm.
- the soft magnetic layer 2a has a thickness of 5 nm per unit, the backing magnetic film 2 is formed of 20 units.
- Each of the soft magnetic layer 2a, the nonmagnetic layer 2b, and the protective film 5 is formed by a sputtering method.
- the film is formed, for example, using a normal DC magnetron sputtering apparatus at Ji Mo gas Ar, gas pressure of 0.5 Pa, room temperature, and a sputter rate of 3 Onm / min.
- Example 1 the following five materials were used as the material of the soft magnetic layer 2a. a,) Fe 80 Co 20 : F e ⁇ b
- FIG. 3 shows the saturation magnetization Ms (emu / cc)
- Fig. 4 shows the coercive force He (Oe)
- Fig. 5 shows the medium noise Nm (Vrms)
- Fig. 6 shows the spike noise amplitude spk (jV).
- the axis is the thickness (nm) of the soft magnetic layer 2a per unit.
- Nm, spk was measured using a GMR head with a read core width of 0.7 ⁇ m and a read gap length of 0.15 // m.
- the medium noise Nm was obtained by integrating the noise from 1 MHz to 100 MHz.
- the spike noise amplitude spk was measured with an oscilloscope for the largest amplitude in one round of the disk.
- FIG. 3 shows the saturation magnetization Ms of the backing magnetic film 2 with respect to the thickness of the soft magnetic layer 2a per unit. According to FIG. 3, the saturation magnetization Ms tends to decrease as the thickness of any medium decreases.
- the saturation magnetization Ms is 1000 emu / cc or more at any film thickness, and has relatively large values. preferable.
- FIG. 4 shows the coercive force He of the backing magnetic film 2 with respect to the thickness of the soft magnetic layer 2a per unit.
- FIG. 5 shows the medium noise Nm of the backing magnetic film 2 with respect to the thickness of the soft magnetic layer 2a per unit.
- (c) Co Z rN For b, (d) FeCoSiC, and (e) FeC the medium noise Nm is considerably low regardless of the thickness of the soft magnetic layer 2a.
- FIG. 6 shows the amplitude spk of spike noise of the backing magnetic film 2 with respect to the thickness of the soft magnetic layer 2a per unit.
- the coercive force He (c) CoZrNb, (d) FeCoSiC, and (e) FeC with a small coercive force He are about 150 V or less, indicating good characteristics.
- the magnetic properties were examined in detail by VSM, (c) CoZrNb, (d) FeCoSiC, and (e) FeC, the axis of easy magnetization of the backing magnetic film was formed in the radial direction of the medium. Was.
- (a) FeCo and (b) FeAlSi showed isotropic magnetic properties in the film plane.
- the easy axis of magnetization formed in the radial direction by the above three materials may be due to the fact that magnetic anisotropy was manifested as an adverse effect of magnetostriction because the medium created was a disk shape. There is. Also, because the incident direction of the sputtered particles is slightly oblique, it is likely that a magnetic class is easily formed in the radial direction, and it is considered that a kind of magnetic anisotropy due to a kind of shape magnetic anisotropy was developed. Can be
- (d) FeCoSiC and ( ⁇ ) FeC are used as the soft magnetic layer 2a, and the soft magnetic layer 2a
- the film thickness per unit is 5 to 2 Onm, that is, the film thickness per unit of the backing magnetic film 2 (total film thickness of the soft magnetic layer 2a and the nonmagnetic layer 2b) is about 10 to 25 nm. It is preferable to do so.
- FIG. 7 is a graph showing the relationship between the coercive force He and the medium noise Nm obtained from FIGS. According to this, it is understood that the smaller the coercive force He, the smaller the medium noise Nm. Also, medium noise Nm is almost zero. It can be seen that the coercive force He should be smaller than 0.5 Oersted to obtain Here coercivity He in the coercive force H e along the direction of the easy axis. Means
- the characteristics when the material of the nonmagnetic layer 2b is changed will be described.
- the same structure as that of FIG. 2 used in Example 1 was used, and the material of the non-magnetic layer 2 was changed to C, SiC, Cr, and Ti, respectively.
- the thickness of the (F e C o) 75 S i 12 with C 13, 20 nm film thickness of the soft magnetic layer 2 a per unit, the non-magnetic layer 2 b The thickness was 5 nm, and the total thickness of the soft magnetic layer 2a was 100 nm.
- FIG. 8 shows the specific resistance of each material of the nonmagnetic layer 2b.
- the specific resistance of the insulator C and the semiconductor S i C is as large as 1375 and 520, respectively, but the specific resistance of the metal Cr and T i is as small as 13 and 42, respectively.
- the specific resistance of the soft magnetic layer 2a (Fe Co) 75 Si 12 C 13 is 150 ( ⁇ ⁇ cm), which is considerably smaller than that of C or S i C.
- FIG. 9 shows the coercive force Hc of the backing magnetic film 2 using each material of the nonmagnetic layer 2b.
- the coercive force He is 0.3 Oe and is quite small, but when the metal Cr and Ti are used, the coercive force He is 2 5, 2.8 Oersteds, which is quite large. That is, from the viewpoint of soft magnetic properties, it is preferable to use C or S i C having a small coercive force H c.
- FIG. 10 shows the medium noise Nm of the backing magnetic film 2 using each material of the nonmagnetic layer 2b.
- the medium noise Nm is 1.1.1 (Vrms), which is considerably small, but when the metal Cr and T i are used, the medium noise Nm is small.
- the noise is 5, 6 (ju Vrms), which is quite large. That is, from the viewpoint of reducing the medium noise Nm, it is preferable to use C or S i C.
- FIG. 11 shows the spike noise amplitude spk of the backing magnetic film 2 using each material of the nonmagnetic layer 2b.
- the materials C, S i of the nonmagnetic layer 2b The spike noise spk of C, Cr 3 Ti is 140, 130, 220, 250 (uV) respectively, and it is preferable to use C or Sic from the viewpoint of reducing the spike noise spk.
- an insulator represented by carbon (C) or a semiconductor SiC is preferably used as the material of the nonmagnetic layer 2b.
- a coercive force Hc medium noise Nm, spike noise spk similar to C and S i C nitride (S iN), oxide (S iO, TiO) or the like may be used.
- a dielectric material is preferable as the material of the nonmagnetic layer 2b.
- the specific resistance of the material used for the nonmagnetic layer 2b is preferably larger than the specific resistance of the soft magnetic layer 2a.
- the relationship between the surface roughness Ra of the backing magnetic film 2 and the noise (Nm, spk) will be described. Also, in order to reduce the noise as the surface roughness Ra decreases, and to reduce the surface roughness Ra of the backing magnetic film 2, the sputter gas pressure during the formation of the nonmagnetic layer 2b must be reduced. Indicates that is required.
- Example 2 it was found that the noise (Nm, spk) was considerably different depending on the material of the nonmagnetic layer 2b. However, the medium noise Nm and the spike noise spk also differed depending on the surface roughness of the backing magnetic film 2.
- the surface roughness is considered to be related to the thin film growth mode of the soft magnetic layer 2a and the non-magnetic layer 2b.c
- the surface roughness can be changed by the sputter gas pressure during film formation. . Therefore, when carbon C is used as the nonmagnetic layer 2b, various characteristic values were measured by changing the gas pressure (Pa) at the time of forming the nonmagnetic layer 2b. The relationship between the surface roughness Ra and the medium noise Nm was examined.
- Embodiment 3 to create a medium having the same layer structure as in Example 2, the soft magnetic layer as 2 a (FeCo) 75 S i 12 C 13 (20 nm per Yunitto), non-magnetic Carbon C (5 nm per unit) was used as layer 2b.
- FIGS. 12 to 15 show a graph of a change in each characteristic value with respect to the gas pressure (Pa) of the nonmagnetic layer 2b.
- FIG. 12 it is found that the coercive force He of the backing magnetic film 2 hardly changes even when the gas pressure is changed.
- FIG. 13 it can be seen that the medium noise Nm is smaller when the gas pressure is lower.
- FIG. 14 it can be seen that the spike noise amplitude spk decreases as the sputtering gas pressure decreases.
- Fig. 15 the lower the gas pressure, the smaller the surface roughness Ra.
- Fig. 16 shows a graph of the relationship between the surface roughness Ha and the medium noise obtained from Figs. 13 and 15.c Compiling the results from Figs. 12 to 15, the smaller the surface roughness Ra, the higher the medium noise Nm and the spike.
- the noise s pk was found to be small.c
- the medium noise Nm could be reduced to 2 (Vrms) or less, and the spike noise s pk was reduced. Can be reduced to 200 ⁇ V or less.
- the surface roughness Ra of the backing magnetic film 2 is smaller than 1 nm, and the surface roughness Ra at the time of forming the nonmagnetic layer 2b is reduced. It is preferable that the evening gas pressure be lower than about 1 (Pa).
- the soft magnetic layer 2 a using a wood charge of five shown in Example 1 (a) ⁇ (e) , it it a film thickness of 5 nm, 10 nm, 20 nm 3 40 nm, 6 0 nm, 80 nm and 100 nm were prepared.
- the nonmagnetic layer 2b is not laminated.
- FIG. 17 to 20 show graphs of various characteristic values with respect to the thickness of the soft magnetic layer 2a.
- FIG. 21 shows a graph of the relationship between the coercive force He and the medium noise Nm obtained from FIGS.
- FIG. 17 shows the saturation magnetism Ms with respect to the film thickness.
- Fe Co Fe Co
- Fe CoSiC Fe CoSiC
- FeC 1000 emu
- the saturation magnetization Ms of (b) FeAI Si, (c) CoZrNb is smaller than 1000 emu / c.
- Fig. 18 shows the coercive force He with respect to the film thickness.
- the coercive force He is 2 It is less than elsted and has sufficient soft magnetic properties.
- Fig. 19 shows the medium noise Nm with respect to the film thickness.
- Nm medium noise
- CoZrNb CoZrNb
- FeCoSiC FeCoSiC
- FeC 3 Vrms or less at any film thickness. It is a fairly low value.
- the medium noise Nm is smaller when the film thickness is less than 10 nm, but it is larger than 1 ⁇ zVrms. Therefore, from the viewpoint of reduction of the medium noise Nm, (c) CoZrNb, (d) FeCoSiC, and (e) FeC are preferable as in the case of the coercive force He.
- FIG. 20 shows the spike noise amplitude spk with respect to the film thickness.
- the spike noise spk tends to increase as the fl thickness increases.
- C CoZ rNb,
- FeC FeC
- the spike noise spk is less than 50 / V for thin film thicknesses less than 20 nm. Therefore, from the viewpoint of reducing spike noise,
- (c) CoZrNb, (d) FeCoSiC, and (e) FeC are preferable.
- the medium using the soft magnetic layer 2a having a small coercive force He has a small medium noise Nm.
- a medium using the soft magnetic layer 2a having a small coercive force He has a small spike noise spk.
- the coercive force Hc, medium noise Nm, and spike noise spk required for the soft magnetic layer are all small, and the saturation magnetic force Ms is as small as possible. If a large one is selected, (d) FeCoSiC and (e) FeC are applicable.
- the spike noise spk is also smaller than 3. Therefore, even when the soft magnetic layer 2a is stacked in multiple layers as in the first embodiment, the spike noise is reduced. The increase is suppressed.
- the soft magnetic layer 2a is composed mainly of a magnetic element, Fe, and a metalloid element (C, Si, B, P, etc.) It is considered that a material to which (a non-magnetic element) is added exhibits similarly excellent soft magnetic characteristics and noise characteristics.
- the backing magnetic film has a laminated structure of a soft magnetic layer and a nonmagnetic layer, and has a total film thickness of one cycle of the soft magnetic layer and the nonmagnetic layer of 10 nm or more and 25 nm or less. Since the easy axis of the magnetic layer is configured to be in the in-plane direction of the substrate and the radial direction, the Neel domain wall structure of low coercive force, high saturation magnetization, low spike noise, and magnetization of the soft magnetic layer Thus, it is possible to provide a backing magnetic layer that has been realized.
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