Abstract: According to one embodiment, a multilayered underlayer including a first underlayer containing Cu aligned in a (111) plane and a second underlayer formed on the Cu underlayer and containing Cu and nitrogen as main components is formed.

Abstract: A surface magnet type motor having a magnet at a surface of a rotor includes an anti-scattering tube formed in a cylindrical configuration longer in length than the magnet of the rotor in the axial direction, having the magnet press-fitted inside to prevent scattering of the magnet. A stress alleviation portion is provided to alleviate stress generated at an end of the magnet press-fitted into the anti-scattering tube.

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium 62 wherein a substrate 11, undercoating layers 13 and 14 formed on the substrate 11, and a magnetic recording layer 15, which include the magnetic crystal grain and the grain boundary field which encloses magnetic crystal grains, are included. The grain boundary field includes Ti oxide, and the ratio of the substance amount of the Ti oxide in the magnetic recording layer 15 is 5 mol % or more and 15 mol % or less, and the Ti oxide includes at least TiO and/or Ti2O3s.

Abstract: There are provided a method for manufacturing a magnetic recording medium which is excellent in terms of both the recording and reproduction characteristics and the thermal fluctuation characteristics without reducing the density and hardness of the perpendicular magnetic layer; a magnetic recording medium; and a magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus with which an excellent recording density is achieved, wherein, in the method for manufacturing the magnetic recording medium, at least a portion of the perpendicular magnetic layer 4 is formed as a magnetic layer having a granular structure that contains Co as a major component and also contains an oxide of at least one nonmagnetic metal selected from the group consisting of Cr, Si, Ta, Al, Ti, W and Mg; a target for forming the perpendicular magnetic layer 4 by the sputtering process is prepared so as to include an oxide of Co and a compound of Co and at least one nonmagnetic metal selected from the group consisting of Cr, Si, Ta, Al, Ti, W and Mg, and t

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium is provided, which has at least one soft magnetic layer, at least one seed layer, at least one underlayer and at least one perpendicular magnetic recording layer, and is characterized in that the or each seed layer is comprised of a covalently bonded material. The covalently bonded material preferably predominantly comprises a nitride having a hexagonal crystal structure, more preferably, predominantly comprises aluminum nitride having a hexagonal wurtzite crystal structure. This magnetic recording medium is superior in recording and reproducing an information with high density.

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium comprising a substrate, at least one soft magnetic underlayer formed on the substrate, a perpendicular magnetic recording layer formed on the soft magnetic underlayer, and a protective layer formed on the perpendicular magnetic recording layer, is provided wherein the perpendicular magnetic recording layer is comprised of a primary recording layer, a non-magnetic intermediate layer and an auxiliary layer; the primary recording layer comprises magnetic crystal grains and grain boundary portions surrounding the magnetic crystal grains, and has a perpendicular magnetic anisotropy; the auxiliary layer has a negative magneto crystalline anisotropy; and the non-magnetic intermediate layer is formed between the primary recording layer and the auxiliary layer and comprises at least one metal selected from Ru, Rh and Ir, or at least one alloy thereof.

Abstract: A chip-type coil component capable of reducing the resistance of the coil while minimizing a decrease in the inductance of the coil includes magnetic layers composed of a multilayer body. The chip-type coil component further includes internal electrodes laminated on the magnetic layers. The internal electrodes are connected to each other to form a coil. The chip-type coil component further includes an auxiliary internal electrode laminated on each of the magnetic layers. Each auxiliary internal electrode is connected in parallel to the internal electrode laminated on the magnetic layer that is different from the magnetic layer on which the auxiliary internal electrode is laminated.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a perpendicular magnetic recording medium includes a substrate, soft magnetic underlying layer, nonmagnetic underlying layer, and perpendicular magnetic recording layer. The perpendicular magnetic recording layer has an array of magnetic structures each corresponding to 1 bit of recording information, and includes a crystalline hard magnetic recording layer having perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, and an amorphous soft magnetic recording layer. The hard and soft magnetic recording layers are coupled by exchange coupling.

Abstract: A multilayered electronic component that is easy to manufacture and that has excellent electrical characteristics includes end portions of coil wiring patterns that oppose a coil connection electrode that is displaced on the surface of a second ceramic layer due to an increase or decrease in the number of first ceramic layers. A coil connection electrode has a shape in which surface portions of second ceramic layers or opposed second ceramic layers having the first ceramic layers disposed in between are connected to the end portions of the coil wiring patterns that oppose the respective coil connection electrode, which are displaced due to the increase or decrease in the number of the first ceramic layers. A connection wiring pattern has a shape in which one portion of a coil connection electrode is connected to one portion of an external extension electrode connection pattern.

Abstract: At least three underlayers, i.e., a first underlayer containing, as a main component, at least one element selected from Ag, Ir, Ni, Pd, Pt, Rh, Hf, Re, Ru, Ti, Ta, Zr, Mg, and Al, a second underlayer containing Mg or Al and Si, and a third underlayer containing, as a main component, at least one element selected from Pt, Pd, Ru, Rh, Co, and Ti, are formed between a substrate and magnetic recording layer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a magnetic recording medium which is capable of improving the perpendicular orientation of a perpendicular magnetic recording layer while maintaining a writing performance during recording and obtaining both an improvement in the perpendicular orientation and fine magnetic crystal particles with a uniform diameter, and which enables information to be recorded or reproduced at high density, a method of manufacturing the same, and a magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus. A magnetic recording medium 10 according to the present invention includes at least a soft magnetic underlayer 2, an orientation control layer 3, a magnetic recording layer 4, and a protective layer 5 formed on a non-magnetic substrate 1. The orientation control layer 3 has a seed layer 6 and an intermediate layer 7. The seed layer 6 is made of a Cu—Ti alloy that has a face-centered cubic structure and includes Cu as a main component.

Abstract: In a perpendicular magnetic recording medium in which at least a soft magnetic underlayer, an orientation control layer, a magnetic recording layer and a protective layer are formed on a non-magnetic substrate in order from the bottom, the orientation control layer has a laminated structure of two or more layers including an intermediate layer and a seed layer which is disposed closer to the non-magnetic substrate than the intermediate layer. The seed layer includes two or more kinds of elements having a face-centered cubic structure, has face-centered cubic (111) plane crystals oriented in a direction perpendicular to a substrate surface, and has a pseudo-hexagonal structure.

Abstract: A large grain diameter under-layer of at least one selected from Cu, Ni or Rh, comprising large average diameter crystalline grains of 50 nm or more than 50 nm with the (100) crystal plane of the grains oriented parallel to the substrate surface, was formed on a substrate. Then, a magnetic recording layer was deposited on the under-layer. The magnetic recording medium carrying this structure showed very small magnetic crystalline grains in magnetic layer, and excellent overwrite characteristics and signal to noise ratio at high recording density.

Abstract: To make possible high density recording by making the structure of the perpendicular magnetic recording layer finer. A perpendicular magnetic recording medium 10 includes at least a nonmagnetic under layer 2, a perpendicular magnetic layer 3, and a protective layer which are stacked on a nonmagnetic substrate 1, wherein the perpendicular magnetic layer includes ferromagnetic crystal grains and nonmagnetic crystal grain boundary regions, wherein the crystal grain boundary region includes at least two kinds of oxide.

Abstract: A driving method of a self-luminous display apparatus having a plurality of self-luminous elements including each of pixels placed like a matrix in a pixel row direction and a pixel line direction and driving a display portion by passing a current between an anode and a cathode of each of the self-luminous elements and thereby emitting light from each of the pixels.

Abstract: It is made possible to provide a patterned perpendicular magnetic recording medium that has smaller write magnetic field and the variation of magnetic characteristics in the bit regions, generates fewer reversed magnetic domains in the position control information regions of the head, and has excellent thermal stability. A patterned perpendicular magnetic recording medium includes: a nonmagnetic substrate; a soft magnetic base layer formed on the nonmagnetic substrate; a nonmagnetic intermediate layer formed on the soft magnetic base layer; and a perpendicular magnetic recording layer formed on the nonmagnetic intermediate layer, and including a stacked structure of a CoPt-based crystalline film having a Pt content in the range of 5 atomic percent to 35 atomic percent and a rare-earth and transition metal alloy amorphous film formed on the CoPt-based crystalline film. The CoPt-based crystalline film and the rare-earth and transition metal alloy amorphous film are exchange-coupled.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a perpendicular magnetic recording medium includes a substrate, soft magnetic underlying layer, nonmagnetic underlying layer, and perpendicular magnetic recording layer. The perpendicular magnetic recording layer has an array of magnetic structures each corresponding to 1 bit of recording information, and includes a crystalline hard magnetic recording layer having perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, and an amorphous soft magnetic recording layer. The hard and soft magnetic recording layers are coupled by exchange coupling.

Abstract: The present invention provides a magnetic recording medium capable of recording or reproducing high-density information by reducing the grain size of a perpendicular magnetic recording layer and improving vertical orientation, a method of manufacturing the same, and a magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus. The perpendicular magnetic recording medium includes: a non-magnetic substrate; and at least an soft magnetic layer, an under layer, an intermediate layer, and a perpendicular magnetic recording film that are formed on the non-magnetic substrate. At least one layer of the intermediate layer is made of an alloy material of an element having an fcc structure and an element having a bcc structure or an hcp structure, and has both a crystal structure having (111) orientation and an irregular layer lattice (stacking fault) caused by a mixture of the fcc structure and the bcc structure.

Abstract: A magnetic-recording medium which is provided on a nonmagnetic substrate with at least an orientation-controlling layer for controlling the orientation of a layer formed directly thereon, a perpendicularly magnetic layer having an easily magnetizing axis oriented mainly perpendicularly relative to the nonmagnetic substrate, and a protective layer. The perpendicularly magnetic layer includes two or more magnetic layers, at least one of the magnetic layers is a layer having Co as a main component and containing Pt as well and containing an oxide, and at least another of the magnetic layers is a layer having Co as a main component and containing Cr as well and containing no oxide.

Abstract: A grain diameter controlling crystalline layer comprising crystalline grains of a metal selected from the group consisting essentially of Cu, Ni, Rh and Pt was formed on a substrate. Then, deposited atom layer of at least one element selected from the group consisting of oxygen and carbon was formed on the surface of the grain diameter control layer. A magnetic recording layer was deposited on the atoms deposited grain diameter controlling crystalline layer. Then a magnetic recording medium in which the magnetic crystalline grains has small grain diameter and small grain diameter distribution, and the magnetic recording medium shows increased signal to noise ratio at high recording density.