Al/NiPディスク上に作製しためっき軟磁性裏打ち層の磁気特性と単磁区化

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We propose a noble stacked soft magnetic underlayer (SUL) with the so-called top-type pinning structure, which consists of a soft magnetic layer (SM layer) fabricated by plating and an antiferromagnetic layer (AFM layer) deposited by sputtering, on an Al/NiP disk. Through investigation of the structure and magnetic properties of this stacked SUL, we clarified the following points: (1) the thermal stability of NiFeP plated on an Al/NiP disk is 280°C, which is the crystallization temperature of the amorphous NiP layer; (2) to induce large unidirectial magnetic anisotropy in the SUL, it is necessary to introduce a soft magnetic buffer layer and apply dry etching to the NiFeP surface; (3) a unidirectional magnetic anisotropy field can be induced in an SM layer fabricated by plating as well as in one fabricated by sputtering, which results in the whole disk having a single-domain structure.