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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2024
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Wei Guo, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Kyongha Kang, Fremont, CA (US);
Ge Xu, San Jose, CA (US);
Paul Christopher Dorsey, Los Altos, CA (US);
Jaiyoung Kim, San Ramon, CA (US);
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Various apparatuses, devices, methods, and media are disclosed for heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) that, in some examples, provide a HAMR medium with a platinum-doped CO—BN capping layer. In one example, the HAMR medium includes a CoPtBN capping layer on a magnetic recording layer with Pt in the range of 5-12 atomic percentage (at. %). An atomic ratio of Co to Pt within the CoPtBN may be, e.g., in the range of 5 to 13. The BN in the CoPtBN may be, e.g., 22-30 mole percentage of the CoPtBN. The CoPtBN may have a face-centered cubic (FCC) crystalline structure. The HAMR medium may have various other layers, such as a substrate, a heatsink layer on the substrate, and a seed layer on the heatsink layer, with the magnetic recording layer on the seed layer. The seed layer may include MgO or MgO—TiO. An amorphous soft underlayer (SUL) may be provided.