Abstract
We have studied the impact of structural randomness on the variation in optical absorption of recording grains. Using finite-difference time-domain simulation, we demonstrate that randomness in size, shape, and position of FePt grain can cause 2%-9% variation in absorption, depending on the strength of randomness. We have also discussed the resulting impact of several design parameters: air gap, average grain size and its standard deviation, size, and permittivity of grain boundaries, seedlayer thickness, and aspect ratio of recording grains. We demonstrate that the impact of random absorption on jitter is comparable to experimentally estimated variations in Curie temperature {\sigma }-{T-{c}}. In the case of standard recording system parameters, we observe {\sigma }-{T}\sim 1.5 % averaged over the write bubble which corresponds to {\sigma }-{T}\sim 3 % for the grains inside.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 8480864 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Magnetics |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| State | Published - Mar 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by ASTC/IDEMA. The authors would like to thank the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA, for providing resources that contributed to the research results reported within this paper.
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Keywords
- Effective medium theory (EMT)
- heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR)
- jitter
- optical absorption