Abstract: A perpendicular type of magnetic recording medium includes a substrate, a soft magnetic underlying section including a plurality of distinct layers soft magnetic material, a recording section, and an intermediate section upon which the recording section is formed. The intermediate section is provided to improve the crystal orientation and impart a desired magnetic characteristic to the recording section. An uppermost one of the layers of soft magnetic material which, of all of the layers of soft magnetic material, is disposed closest to the intermediate section is predisposed to induce the intermediate section to crystallize in a desired way as it is formed. Therefore, the intermediate section may have a minimal thickness and yet achieve a crystallization that is sufficient to control the forming of the recording section.

Abstract: A perpendicular magnetic recording head and method of manufacturing the same are provided. The perpendicular magnetic recording head records or reads information on or from a perpendicular magnetic recording medium. The perpendicular magnetic recoding head includes a coil, a main pole, and a return pole. The coil serves as a source for generating a magnetic field. The main pole and the return pole constitute a magnetic path of the magnetic field. The main pole includes an end facing the perpendicular magnetic recording medium. The end includes a leading part serving as a front side and a trailing part serving as a rear side with respect to a movement direction of the perpendicular magnetic recording medium. Both edges of the trailing part are chamfered, and the leading part has a plane inclined with respect to an air-bearing surface (ABS). The return pole has an end spaced from the main pole, and the other end connected with the main pole.

Abstract: An information recording medium, a method of manufacturing the information recording medium, a read/write head, and a method of manufacturing the read/write head are provided. The information recording medium includes magnetic recording layers formed of a ferromagnetic substance and electrical recording layers formed of a ferroelectric substance. The read/write head includes an electromagnetic write head including a main pole, a return pole magnetically connected to the main pole but electrically isolated from the main pole, a magnetic field applicator which applies a magnetic field to the main pole, and a voltage source which applies a bias voltage to the main pole; a magnetic read head provided an a side of the electromagnetic write head; and an electrical read head provided on an other side of the electromagnetic write head.

Abstract: A magnetic recording head and a method of manufacturing the same. The magnetic recording head includes a stack containing a main pole and a return pole. The stack includes a first magnetic layer having a groove formed therein; an insulating layer covering a surface of the groove; and a second magnetic layer pattern filling the groove covered with the insulating layer.

Abstract: Disclosed is a head gimbals assembly for a hard disk for use in a thermally assisted magnetic disk recording medium, in which a laser diode is applied so as to record information with high density, and a method of assembling such a head gimbals assembly.

Abstract: A servo master having a pattern capable of being magnetically transferred as a servo pattern to a magnetic recording medium, wherein the servo master is formed of a material having a magnetic anisotropic constant perpendicular to a surface of the magnetic recording medium. The magnetic transfer method can include preparing a servo master patterned with a servo pattern to be formed on a magnetic recording medium, and arranging the servo master on the magnetic recording medium and applying an external magnetic field to the servo master in a first direction perpendicular to a recording surface of the magnetic recording medium, and in a second direction parallel to the recording surface of the magnetic recording medium.

Abstract: Provided is a magnetic recording medium. The magnetic recording medium includes a substrate, a recording layer disposed on the substrate for magnetic recording, and a carbon protection layer, which includes a carbon layer and a blocking layer disposed in the carbon layer to block infiltration of external impurities, disposed on the recording layer. Since the blocking layer is disposed in the carbon layer, a thickness of the carbon protection layer can be reduced while a sufficient hardness to protect the recording layer can be ensured, and moreover, a softness of the surface of the carbon protection layer can be improved.

Abstract: Provided is a perpendicular magnetic recording medium. The perpendicular magnetic recording medium includes: a substrate; a soft magnetic layer disposed on the substrate; a recording layer disposed on the soft magnetic layer; and at least one hardness enhancing layer disposed in the soft magnetic layer or interposed between the soft magnetic layer and the recording layer.

Abstract: A magnetic recording head and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The method includes layering sequentially first magnetic layer and an insulating cap layer on a first insulating layer; forming a mask pattern of a desired width on the insulating cap layer, and etching the first magnetic layer and the insulating cap layer until the first insulating layer is exposed, thereby forming a trapezoidal layered portion; depositing an insulating material on the first insulating layer to form a second insulating layer to bury a periphery of the trapezoidal layered portion; and forming a second magnetic layer on the second insulating layer.

Abstract: A magnetic recording head includes a return pole, a writing pole spaced a predetermined distance from the return pole, an induction writing coil forming a magnetic field on the writing pole, and a writing pole shield formed on the same plane as the writing pole.

Abstract: Provided is a perpendicular magnetic recording medium. The perpendicular magnetic recording medium includes: a substrate; a plurality of soft magnetic layers including a lower soft magnetic layer and an upper soft magnetic layer which are sequentially stacked on the substrate, wherein the upper soft magnetic layer has an anisotropic field greater than that of the lower soft magnetic layer; an isolating layer interposed between the lower and upper soft magnetic layers and preventing magnetic interaction between the lower and upper soft magnetic layers; an underlayer formed on the plurality of soft magnetic layers; and a recording layer formed on the underlayer and including a plurality of ferromagnetic layers each layer of which has a magnetic anisotropic energy which decreases as distance increases from the underlayer.

Abstract: A magnetic head and a recording apparatus employing the same are provided. The magnetic head includes a recording member, a field inducing member inducing a magnetic field to the recording member, a shield member having the same direction of magnetization as the recording member in a recording operation, and a return path member forming a magnetic path with the recording member.

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium and a method of manufacturing the magnetic recording medium are provided. In order to increase the recording density of the magnetic recording medium, the magnetic recording medium is configured to multiple magnetic layers by consecutively forming a first magnetic layer having a thin film shape and a second magnetic layer comprising patterned magnetic bits. The first magnetic layer has a magnetic anisotropic coefficient greater than that of the second magnetic layer.

Abstract: A perpendicular magnetic recording medium and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The perpendicular magnetic recording medium includes a substrate, and a recording layer comprising a plurality of independent first magnetic body regions and a plurality of second magnetic body regions formed on the substrate, the second magnetic body regions separating the first magnetic body regions from each other, and being formed by implanting dopant into a region in which the first magnetic body regions are to be separated. Each of the first magnetic body regions has an L10 structure and the dopant has an ionic or molecular shape.

Abstract: Provided are a perpendicular magnetic recording medium and a method of manufacturing the same. The perpendicular magnetic recording medium includes: a substrate; a soft magnetic layer formed on the substrate; an underlayer formed on the soft magnetic layer; and a recording layer comprising a plurality of ferromagnetic layers and formed on the underlayer, wherein each of the plurality of ferromagnetic layers has a magnetic anisotropic energy which decreases as distance increases from the underlayer.

Abstract: A bit patterned medium in which an exchange coupling layer induces exchange coupling between adjacent bits in order to reduce a switching field difference resulting from different magnetization directions of bits. The exchange coupling layer is disposed either over or under a recording layer having a plurality of bits. The exchange coupling layer induces exchange coupling between a bit which is to be recorded and an adjacent bit and reduces a switching field difference resulting from a difference between the magnetization direction of the bit to be recorded and the magnetization direction of neighboring bits due to an exchange coupling force generated during the exchange coupling.

Abstract: Provided is a bit patterned medium including bridges which induce exchange coupling between adjacent bits in order to reduce a switching field difference resulting from different magnetization directions of bits. The bridges and the bits are integrally formed with each other. The bits are locally connected by the bridges. A magnetostatic force for each bit is reduced due to an exchange coupling between adjacent bits, thereby reducing a switching field distribution of the bits.

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium, a hard disk drive (HDD) employing the same, and a method of measuring a write read (WR) offset of the HDD are provided. The magnetic recording medium includes a disk substrate and a magnetic recording layer formed on one or both surfaces of the disk substrate, wherein the magnetic recording layer comprises: at least one pattern area patterned into a plurality of data tracks wherein the at least one pattern area is formed of a patterned magnetic substance; and at least one continuous area formed of a continuous magnetic substance, wherein the continuous area is used to measure a WR offset. Accordingly, the HDD employing the magnetic recording medium can correct the WR offset of the magnetic head without requiring large modifications.

Abstract: Provided is a method of increasing recording density and a control apparatus for increasing the recording density. The method includes applying a recording current corresponding to a recording signal to a magnetic head of a hard disc drive (HDD), and limiting a current value being applied to the magnetic head to a critical value when the recording current reaches the critical value. In the method, a rising time is reduced by using an overshoot recording current and the recording current is limited to a critical value when an actual recording current reaches the critical value. Thus, write track widths (WTWs) can be reduced at a low recording frequency, thereby increasing tracks per inch (TPI).

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium and a method of fabricating the same are provided. The magnetic recording medium in which a position for magnetic recording is patterned with a magnetic material, includes a magnetic recording layer which includes a data area having a plurality of data tracks, and a servo area having a servo burst for following the data tracks, wherein the servo burst includes a plurality of bursts disposed in a zigzag structure along a downtrack direction, and each of the bursts includes a plurality of burst pieces having different coercivities from each other. The magnetic recording medium is subjected to two servo-recording processes, so that a signal similar to an alternative signal written in a burst having a burst pattern used in a related art continuous medium can be obtained.