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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2023
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Hoan Cong Ho, San Jose, CA (US);
Paul Christopher Dorsey, Los Altos, CA (US);
Tomoko Seki, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Pierre-Olivier Jubert, San Jose, CA (US);
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Various apparatuses, systems, methods, and media are disclosed to provide a heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) medium that has a magnetic recording layer on a MgO—TiO (MTO) underlayer, where the MTO underlayer is formed using pulsed DC sputtering and has less than 50 mol % of TiO. By providing an MTO layer with less than 50 mol % of TIO, smaller grain sizes may be achieved in the magnetic recording layer, providing for higher areal densities. In some embodiments, a second MTO underlayer is provided, which is formed using non-pulsed DC sputtering and has 50 mol % of TiO. That is, a dual-layer MTO underlayer may be provided with, e.g., an MgO-30TiO layer atop an MgO-50TiO layer.