aNiigata Institute of Technology, 1719 Fujihashi, Kashiwazaki 945-1195, Japan
bKogakuin University, 1-24-2 Nishishinjuku, Tokyo 163-8677, Japan
cTohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
Abstract:
A Landau–Lifshitz–Gilbert (LLG) micromagnetic analysis of the recording field of single-pole-type (SPT) heads was carried out. The whole volume comprising the SPT head and the double-layered medium was treated micromagnetically using the finite-difference method with cubic cells as small as 5 nm, giving a total number of cells of more than 10.8 million. A parallelized fast Fourier transform (FFT) method was used to solve this large-scale problem. Dynamic recording fields were calculated for various head structures and head materials. The timing (synchronization) between the dynamic head field and land location in bit-patterned media (BPM) is discussed and the design methodology is discussed for a fast-switching SPT head.