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A method of forming a magnetic stack and a structure for a magnetic stack of a resistive memory device. A crystallization inhibiting layer is formed over the free layer of a magnetic stack, improving thermal stability. The crystallization inhibiting layer comprises an amorphous material having a higher crystallization temperature than the crystallization temperature of the free layer material. The crystallization inhibiting layer inhibits the crystallization of the underlying free layer, providing improved thermal stability for the resistive memory device.

[Object] To provide a high-performance rare earth-based magnet exhibiting a high coercive force or a high residual magnetic flux density even when the content of a rare earth element such as Dy or the like which is scarce is reduced.

[Construction] A rare earth-iron-boron based magnet includes a crystal grain boundary layer enriched in element M (M is at least one rare earth element selected from Pr, Dy, Tb, and Ho) by diffusion of the element M from the surface of the magnet, wherein the relation between the coercive force H_cj and the content of the element M in the whole of the magnet is represented by the following expression: H_cj≧1+0.2×M (wherein 0.05≦M≦10) wherein H_cj is the coercive force (unit: MA/m), and M is the content of the element M in the whole of the magnet (% by mass). Furthermore, the magnet satisfies the following expression: Br≧1.68−0.17×H_cj wherein Br is the residual magnetic flux density (unit: T).

A thin-film magnetic head that has a configuration in which the element-formed surface and the opposed-to-medium surface are perpendicular to each other, and a light source is sufficiently distanced from the medium surface is provided. The head comprises at least one near-field-light-generating layer for heating a part of a magnetic medium during write operation by generating a near-field light, having a shape tapered toward a head end surface on the opposed-to-medium surface side, and comprising a near-field-light-generating portion having a light-received surface and a tip reaching the head end surface on the opposed-to-medium surface side, and the light-received surface being sloped in respect to the element-formed surface and being provided in a position where an incident light propagating from a head end surface opposite to the opposed-to-medium surface can reach at least a part of the light-received surface.

There is disclosed a magnetic recording medium in which a seed layer, under layer, intermediate layer, first magnetic layer, nonmagnetic layer, second magnetic layer, protective layer, and lubricant layer are successively laminated on a glass substrate, the nonmagnetic layer is constituted of an alloy containing Cr and C, and the magnetic layer is constituted of an alloy containing Co and Pt. The under layer includes at least the seed layer for finely dividing the crystal particles of the magnetic layer, the seed layer includes at least two or more layers of nonmagnetic films, and the intermediate layer formed of the material different from that of the nonmagnetic film is interposed between the nonmagnetic films. In measurement of the thermal stability of the magnetic recording medium, a head is used, the head includes a read/write element, and a write track width is twice or more as large as a read track width in the head.

Disclosed is a method of preparing a micro-structured powder for bonded magnets having high coercivity, which is advantageous in terms of low preparation costs by recycling magnet scraps, simplified mass production, minimal environmental contamination by such a recycling process, and the preparation of stable anisotropic powders having high coercivity. Further, a magnet powder prepared by the above method is provided. The current method is characterized in that R—Fe—B type anisotropic sintered magnets or scraps thereof are crushed to prepare 50-500 μm sized magnet powders, which are then mixed with 1-10 wt % of rare earth fluoride (RF₃) powders and thermally treated at high temperatures (500-1100° C.) in a vacuum or an inert gas, to cause the change of matrix-near surface and grain boundary of the powders. Thus obtained powders include a matrix phase having R₂Fe₁₄B crystal structure, a R-rich grain boundary phase containing rare earth fluoride, and other phases, in which the matrix phase has an average grain size of 1-20 μm, and the powders have an average size of 50-500 μm with superior magnetic characteristics of (BH)max≧20 MGOe and iHc≧5 kOe.

An object of the present invention is to provide a perpendicular magnetic recording medium the SNR of which is improved by reducing noise thought to be due to an auxiliary recording layer so that a higher recording density can be achieved, and a method of manufacturing the same.

In order to achieve the above object, a representative configuration of a perpendicular magnetic recording medium 100 according to the present invention includes, on a base, at least a magnetic recording layer 122 having a granular structure in which a non-magnetic grain boundary portion is formed between crystal particles grown in a columnar shape; a non-magnetic split layer 124 disposed on the magnetic recording layer 122 and containing Ru and oxygen; and an auxiliary recording layer 126 that is disposed on the split layer 124 and that is magnetically approximately continuous in an in-plane direction of a main surface of the base 110.

A perpendicular magnetic recording medium includes a substrate, a soft magnetic layer, a pre-underlayer, an underlayer, and a main recording layer serving as a magnetic recording layer. The pre-underlayer contains seed crystal grains that serve as a base for crystal grains of the underlayer, and an addition substance that is added between the seed crystal grains and composed of an element having an atomic radius smaller than that of an element forming the seed crystal grains.

In a rotating machine comprising a rotor including a rotor core and a plurality of permanent magnet segments, and a stator including a stator core and windings, the permanent magnet segment is obtained by disposing a powder comprising an R² oxide, R³ fluoride or R⁴ oxyfluoride on a sintered magnet body of R¹—Fe—B composition, wherein R¹ to R⁴ are rare earth elements, and heat treating the powder-covered magnet body. The permanent magnet segment of a cross-sectional shape which is tapered from the center toward opposed ends has a higher coercive force at the ends than at the center.

A rare earth permanent magnet is prepared from a sintered magnet body of a R¹—Fe—B composition wherein R¹ is a rare earth element inclusive of Y and Sc, by forming a plurality of slits in a surface of the magnet body, disposing a powder on the magnet body surface, the powder comprising an oxide of R², a fluoride of R³, or an oxyfluoride of R⁴ wherein each of R², R³, and R⁴ is a rare earth element, and heat treating the magnet body and the powder below the sintering temperature in vacuum or in an inert gas.

A rare earth permanent magnet is prepared by disposing a powdered metal alloy containing at least 70 vol% of an intermetallic compound phase on a sintered body of R-Fe-B system, and heating the sintered body having the powder disposed on surface thereof below the sintering temperature of the sintered body in vacuum or in an inert gas for diffusion treatment. The advantages include efficient productivity, excellent magnetic performance, a minimal or zero amount of Tb or Dy used, an increased coercive force, and a minimized decline of remanence.

A magnetic recording medium is formed with a distribution of low coercivity regions functioning as a transition pattern for servo information capable of being sensed by a read/write head by exposing a masked magnetic layer to ions to change the coercivity of the exposed magnetic layer without substantially affecting the topography of the magnetic layer.

Embodiments of the present invention include forming a series of substantially radially extending low coercivity regions used to divide the magnetic layer into a plurality of sectors comprising substantially concentric circumferentially extending data tracks by exposing a masked magnetic layer having a high coercivity, i.e. from about 2000 Oe to about 10000 Oe, to one or more heavy atom ion bombardments of gaseous ions, e.g. argon ions, at a dose of about 1×10¹³ atoms/cm² to about 9×10¹⁵ atoms/cm² having an implantation energy of about 10 KeV to about 50 KeV.

The invention discloses an R-T-B series permanent magnet material and a preparation method and application thereof. The R-T-B series permanent magnet material comprises components of 29.5-33.0 wt.% ofR', N, B and Te, wherein the R' comprises R, Pr, Nd, the R is a rare earth element except Pr and Nd, the content of Pr is greater than or equal to 8.85 wt.%, a mass ratio of Nd to R' is less than 0.5, the N is greater than 0.05 wt.% and is not greater than 4.1 wt.%, the N is Ti, Zr or Nb, the B is 0.90-1.2wt.%, and the Fe is 62.0-68.0wt.%. The R-T-B series permanent magnet material is advantagedin that a sintered permanent magnet product with high coercive force and a stable temperature coefficient is prepared by adopting a formula with high Pr content, advantages of Pr can be exerted to themaximum extent by adopting the formula disclosed by the invention, and production cost is effectively reduced.

The invention aims to prevent inadvertent rewriting or erasure of servo information in a patterned medium based on the perpendicular recording mode. The magnetic recording medium of the invention includes recording tracks each having an array of unit minute recording portions of a magnetic material separated by non-recording portions of a nonmagnetic material. The recording tracks include data regions and servo regions. The unit minute recording portions in the data regions have substantially the same surface area as the unit minute recording portions in the servo regions. The invention satisfies ARS/ARD>=1.5 provided that the unit minute recording portion has an aspect ratio which is the thickness divided by the square root of the surface area, the unit minute recording portion in the data region has an aspect ratio ARD, and the unit minute recording portion in the servo region has an aspect ratio ARS.

The invention discloses a method for preparing a heavy rare earth hydride nano-particle doped sintered NdFeB permanent magnet, which belongs to the technical field of magnetic materials. The prior preparation method improves the coercive force and the temperature stability of magnets by adding heavy rare earth elements, namely terbium or dysprosium into master alloy, but the method can cause the residual magnetism of the magnets, the reduction of magnetic energy product and the increase of manufacturing cost. The method adopts heavy rare earth terbium hydride and dysprosium hydride nano-powder doping technology to prepare the sintered NdFeB permanent magnet with high coercive force and excellent magnetic property. The method comprises the following steps: preparing NdFeB powder by a rapidly solidified flake process and a hydrogen decrepitation process; preparing the terbium hydride or the dysprosium hydride nano-powder by physical vapor deposition technology; mixing the two powders, and performing magnetic field orientation and press forming; and performing dehydrogenation treatment, sintering and heat treatment on a green compact at different temperatures, and obtaining the sintered magnet. The coercive force of the magnet prepared by the method is higher than that of the prior sintered magnet with the same ingredients; and compared with the sintered magnet with the equivalent coercive force, the proportion of the terbium and dysprosium needed by the magnet prepared by the method is remarkably reduced.

The invention discloses a sintered neodymium-iron-boron preparation method capable of improving intrinsic coercivity and anticorrosive performance. On the basis of a double-alloy preparation process, Ce-enriched multicomponent rare-based alloy with high amorphous forming ability is used as an auxiliary alloy, and the decrystallizatoin of crystal boundary phase structure is realized by gas quenching cooling in a sintering tempering process. In the invention, the intrinsic coercivity is obviously improved, the anticorrosive weight loss is greatly reduced, the magnetic performance and anticorrosive performance are high, and the method can be widely used in the field of production of high-performance anticorrosive sintered neodymium-iron-boron material.

To improve the performance of a rare-earth magnet, it is effective to use a low-oxidized powder having a small grain size. One objective of the present invention is to provide a method for manufacturing a sintered rare-earth magnet having a magnetic anisotropy, in which a very active powder having a small grain size can be safely used in a low-oxidized state. Another objective is to provide a method capable of efficiently manufacturing products having various shapes. In a weighing and loading section 41 and a high-density loading section 42, a fine powder as a material of the sintered rare-earth magnet having a magnetic anisotropy is loaded into a mold until its density reaches a predetermined level. Then, in a magnetic orientation section 43, the fine powder is oriented by a pulsed magnetic field. Subsequently, the fine powder is not compressed but immediately sintered in a sintering furnace 44. The present method enables the mass-producing machine to be simple in its operation and its housing to be accordingly smaller, so that it will be possible to eliminate the danger of oxidization or burning of the powder, which has been a serious problem for a conventional method that uses a large-scale die-pressing machine. Furthermore, the manufacturing efficiency can be improved by using a multi-cavity mold for manufacturing a sintered rare-earth magnet having an industrially important shape, such as a plate magnet or an arched plate magnet.

The invention relates to a grain boundary diffusion method for improving properties of sintered NdFeB magnets. The grain boundary diffusion method comprises the following steps of stacking sintered NdFeB magnets and diffusion alloy sheets together and placing in a hot-pressing furnace; vacuumizing the hot-pressing furnace until the vacuum degree reaches a set value, heating the hot-pressing furnace, and when the temperature of the hot-pressing furnace reaches a set value, beginning to exert a pressure and maintaining the pressure and putting the diffused sample into a high-vacuum furnace for annealing, wherein the diffusion alloy sheets are low-melting-point eutectic diffusion alloys and are represented by R-TM, R is one or more of Sc, Y, La, Ce, Pr or Nd and TM is one or more of Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu and Zn. Compared with the prior art, the sintered NdFeB magnets modified by the pressure diffusion method, which is provided by the invention, have the advantages of large diffusion depth of a diffusion agent, uniform distribution of grain boundary phases, high coercivity and the like, especially, low-melting-point diffusion alloys designed by the invention are free of expensive heavy rare earth element dysprosium and thus the cost of the raw materials is relatively low, the diffusion temperature is low and the energy consumption in the diffusion process is small.

A current-perpendicular-to-the-plane (CPP) magnetoresistive (MR) sensor has an improved free layer structure that includes a first ferromagnetic interface layer on the sensor's nonmagnetic spacer layer, a first electrically conductive interlayer on the first interface layer, a central ferromagnetic NiFe alloy free layer on the first interlayer, a second electrically conductive interlayer on the central free layer, and a second ferromagnetic interface layer on the second interlayer. The first ferromagnetic interface layer, central ferromagnetic free layer, and second ferromagnetic interface layer are ferromagnetically coupled together across the electrically conductive interlayers so their magnetization directions remain parallel. The free layer structure may be used in single or dual CPP sensors and in spin-valve or tunneling MR sensors.