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Studies of HAMR Recording by Hybrid Monte Carlo Micromagnetics

Authors :
Jingyue Miao
Dan Wei
Source :
IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. 55:1-4
Publication Year :
2019
Publisher :
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019.

Abstract

The heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) has been studied extensively for its application in extremely high-density hard disk drives. In this paper, we utilize the hybrid Monte Carlo micromagnetics to investigate the HAMR write process and the recording performances by evaluating the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The simulation results show that, recording on granular FePt-C media with a grain size (D) ~4 nm, the medium SNR drops to 8.36 dB with areal density reaching to ~4 Tbit/in2. Furthermore, the effects of grain size distribution and Curie temperature ( $T\text{c}$ ) distribution on HAMR recording are introduced in our simulation considering the sputter conditions in experiments. We build up HAMR recording models by varying grain size distribution and Tc distribution and find out that the effect of the Tc distribution is much stronger than the grain size distribution. With $\sigma T\text{c}/T\text{c}\,\,=0.037$ ( $\sigma \text{D}$ /D = 0.09), the SNR decreases from 15.14 to 12.72 dB while the SNR decreases to 15.01 dB with $\sigma \text{D}$ /D rising from 0.09 to 0.15 ( $\sigma T\text{c}/T\text{c}\,\,=0$ ).

Details

ISSN :
19410069 and 00189464
Volume :
55
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
IEEE Transactions on Magnetics
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........e5995de840fa8a69bfcbeaee8b833367