intergranular exchange coupling in CoCrPt-oxide perpendicular magnetic recording media.
A thin film multi-layered structure comprising a high coercivity CoPt unicrystal layer
separated from a low coercivity CoPt layer by a thin oxide interlayer is used to model the
vertically aligned grains separated by oxide boundaries in CoCrPt-oxide media. Exchange
coupling is measured by field shifts of the minor loop from the low coercivity layer. Results …