Materials with the hexagonal close-packed structure (hcp) and the face-centred-cubic structure with stacking faults (pseudo-hcp) are examined for the nonmagnetic intermediate layer (NMIL) in order to suppress variant growth of magnetic grains for granular-type perpendicular recording media. Judging from the analysis of the epitaxial growth of Co-based magnetic grains, it has been found that a lattice misfit between NMIL and magnetic grain of less than 6% and a spreading coefficient of wettability of magnetic grain on NMIL of greater than 0.3 J m−3 are required for the recording layer to have high perpendicular magnetic anisotropy energy.
Various binary systems are investigated as face-centered cubic (fcc) bases for the nonmagnetic intermediate layer (NMIL) in granular perpendicular recording media. Loss of stacking order on the (111) plane in fcc NMIL is found to enhance the perpendicular magnetic anisotropy energy (KuRL) of the overlying medium. One persuasive reason for this enhancement is the preferred epitaxial growth of magnetic grains on only the (111) atomic terrace of the fcc NMIL due to collapse of the sixfold symmetry of (1¯11), (11¯1), and (111¯) atomic terraces of the fcc NMIL.
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