Vopsaroiu, M; Blackburn, J; Muniz-Piniella, A; Cain, M G (2008) Multiferroic magnetic recording read head technology for 1Tb/in2 and beyond. J. Appl. Phys., 103. 07F506

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Abstract

Multiferroic materials are very promising candidates for new technologies and applications because they exhibit simultaneously multiple cooperative phenomena (i.e. magnetic order, electric order and piezo-effects). The main feature of multiferroic materials is the magneto-electric (ME) effect, which can be used to engineer highly sensitive magnetic / electric sensors. In this paper we discuss the requirements of a new kind of magnetic recording read head for 1Tb/in2 recording densities, which is based on a multiferroic structure. The multiferroic sensor operates at room temperature via the strain mediated ME effect by producing a voltage signal in response to the magnetic field excitation from the recorded bits. We calculated the theoretical output from such a recording read head assuming a magnetic recording density of 1Tb/in2. Our calculations demonstrate that the proposed read head technology could replace in the future the conventional magneto-resistive (MR) read heads bringing also a number of considerable advantages, as detailed in the paper.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Multiferroics, magnetic recording read head
Subjects:	Advanced Materials Advanced Materials > Functional Materials
Last Modified:	02 Feb 2018 13:15
URI:	http://eprintspublications.npl.co.uk/id/eprint/4087

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