Coupled granular/continuous media, or CGC media, was fabricated by depositing CoPt multiplayer on CoCrPt granular layer in association with a soft magnetic underlayer. The Co/Pt multilayer has a strong in-plain exchange coupling, which is coupled to the granular layer. Using these CGC media read/write characteristics was investigated by using a single pole writing head and a GMR reader. Clear output increase due to improvement of squareness ratio of its hysteresis loop was observed. Comparing with a granular medium, thermal demagnetization was remarkable improved. In addition to them, transition jitter that is an issue of double layer perpendicular media was reduced. The D_<50> was higher than that of the granular media, which means improvement of writing resolution.
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