Magnetic Force Microscopy Study of CoPtCrO Perpendicular Media With Superparamagnetic And Permanent Magnet Tips

This paper compares the images obtained by superparamagnetic and permanent magnetic force microscopy (MFM) tips, that allows us to explain the issues related to the frequency double in some of domain images of the recording media. This paper also investigates the domain structures of high density recording bits (up to 1100 kfci) written on ac and dc-erased CoPtCrO perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) media with permanent magnet MFM tips under ambient conditions.