TY - JOUR AU1 - Itagaki, Norikazu AU2 - Saito, Shin AU3 - Takahashi, Migaku AB - A concept for the non-magnetic intermediate layer (NMIL) is proposed, which realizes a recording layer of small and highly c-plane oriented grains with no inter-granular exchange coupling. The NMIL consists of three individual epitaxially grown functional layers: a large-grain seed layer (SL) with a highly oriented sheet texture, a first inter-layer (IL1) of small grains and a second inter-layer (IL2) of segregated non-magnetic grains. On focusing on the wettability and the lattice misfit of Ru IL against the SL material, the Mg SL is found to realize the small Ru grains of 4.8nm diameter retaining a small orientation distribution of 4.1°. TI - 4.8nm diameter Ru grains grown on a large-grain seed layer for perpendicular magnetic recording media JF - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics DO - 10.1088/0022-3727/41/15/152006 DA - 2008-08-07 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/iop-publishing/4-8nm-diameter-ru-grains-grown-on-a-large-grain-seed-layer-for-5f3M2s0ut0 SP - 152006 VL - 41 IS - 15 DP - DeepDyve ER -