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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
卷 113, 期 8, 页码 -出版社
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4792521
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- Computer Mechanics Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
- UCB-KAUST Academic Excellence Alliance (AEA) Program
Ultrathin amorphous carbon (a-C) films are extensively used as protective overcoats of magnetic recording media. Increasing demands for even higher storage densities have necessitated the development of new storage technologies, such as heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR), which uses laser-assisted heating to record data on high-stability media that can store single bits in extremely small areas (similar to 1 Tbit/in.(2)). Because HAMR relies on locally changing the coercivity of the magnetic medium by raising the temperature above the Curie temperature for data to be stored by the magnetic write field, it raises a concern about the structural stability of the ultrathin a-C film. In this study, rapid thermal annealing (RTA) experiments were performed to examine the thermal stability of ultrathin hydrogenated amorphous carbon (a-C: H) films deposited by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition. Structural changes in the a-C: H films caused by RTA were investigated by x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, x-ray reflectivity, and conductive atomic force microscopy. The results show that the films exhibit thermal stability up to a maximum temperature in the range of 400-450 degrees C. Heating above this critical temperature leads to hydrogen depletion and sp(2) clustering. The critical temperature determined by the results of this study represents an upper bound of the temperature rise due to laser heating in HAMR hard-disk drives and the Curie temperature of magnetic materials used in HAMR hard disks. (C) 2013 American Institute of Physics. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4792521]
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