Abstract

An approach to increasing the data storage density of magnetic recording was investigated wherein dot arrays are combined with multiple magnetic storage layers. The latter consists of two magnetically decoupled perpendicular Co∕Pd multilayer stacks. As a result of the difference in the coercivity between the two stacks, the orientation of the remanent magnetization of each stack can be set independent of the orientation of the other layer. Therefore, each dot allows storing four different magnetization states, which give rise to four different readback signal levels. Thus, the investigated media structure allows doubling the storage density in magnetic recording applications. It was found that even for thick spacer layers a weak magnetostatic coupling of the storage layers is present preferring ferromagnetic alignment of the storage layers.

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