英语科普小知识 铁铂合金可能成新一代硬盘存储材料.docVIP

Meeting the demand for more data storage in smaller volumes means using materials made up of ever-smaller magnets, or nanomagnets. One promising material for a potential new generation of recording media is an alloy of iron and platinum with an ordered crystal structure. Researchers led by Professor Kai Liu and graduate student Dustin Gilbert at the University of California, Davis, have now found a convenient way to make these alloys and tailor their properties. The relatively convenient synthesis conditions, along with the tunable magnetic properties, make these materials highly desirable for future magnetic recording technologies, said Liu, a professor of physics. The iron-platinum alloy has the ability to retain information even at extremely small nanomagnet sizes, and it is resistant to heat effects. ? Previous methods for making the iron-platinum alloys with an ordered crystal structure involved high-temperature treatments that would be difficult to?integrate（整合）?into the rest of the manufacturing process, Liu said. ? The researchers, including Liang-Wei Wang and Chih-Huang Lai of the National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, and Timothy Klemmer and Jan-Ulrich Thiele, of Seagate Technologies in Fremont, used a method called atomic-scale multilayer sputtering to create a material with extremely thin layers of metal, and rapid thermal annealing to convert it into the desirable ordered alloy. They were able to adjust the magnetic properties of the alloy by adding small amounts of copper into particular regions of the alloy. ? A paper describing the work was recently published in the journal Applied Physics Letters and featured in its Research Highlights. The work was supported by the National Science Foundation Materials World Network Program. 会议的需求更多的数据存储在更小的体积意味着使用的小磁铁，或纳米磁体材料制成。一个潜在的新生成的记录介质的一个有希望的材料是具有有序晶体结构的铁和铂的合金。刘凯教授和研究生达斯汀·吉尔伯特在加州大学戴维斯分校，领导的研究人员现在已经找到了一个便捷的方式，使这些合金和调整其性能。“相对便捷的合成条件，以及与可调磁学性质，使这些材料非常理想的未来磁记录技术，”刘说，一个物理学教授。铁铂合金有能力保留信息，即使在非常小的nanomagnet大小