International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies ISSN 2028-9324 Vol. 5 No. 1 Jan. 2014, pp. 23-29 © 2014 Innovative Space of Scientific Research Journals http://www.issr-journals.org/ijias/ Corresponding Author: Rivaldo Mersis Brilianto (newcenturiant@gmail.com) 23 Heating Mode Effect on Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Rivaldo Mersis Brilianto, Andreas Setiawan, and Nur Aji Wibowo Physics Department, Satya Wacana Christian University, Salatiga, Central Java, Indonesia Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ABSTRACT: Micromagnetic simulation study has been conducted on the perpendicular material ferromagnetic Pt x Mn y Sb z by completing Landau-Lifshift Gilbert equation. Choosen ferromagnetic material has some parameters such as anisotropy constant as large as 4.5×10 5 erg/cm 3 , magnetic saturation of 2100 G, Curie temperature of 373 K, and finite-dimension of 50×50×10 nm 3 . The use of perpendicular anisotropy media with appropriate properties value are intended to increase the storage capacity of the hard disk without ignoring its thermal stabilty. At writing information, ferromagnetic material is induced by magnetic field for reversing the direction of magnetization and all at once also heated by thermal pulse which was designed matches closely the reality. To examine thermal fluctuation effects, twenty random number for magnetization was adopted in calculation and probability of magnetization reversal was introduced for determining the theshold field. Evaluation of reversal mechanism has been done for the variations of temperature of 299.0-372.9 K. Heating exceeds 368.0 K capable to lowering the threshold field up to 90 % through the declining of energy barrier. Investigation also has done for some heating interval i.e. 62.5-1000.0 ps on the temperature which approaches to Curie temperature. As a result, in a span of heating were yielded that reversal field required for reversing the direction of magnetization is only about 250-300 Oe. KEYWORDS: HAMR, perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, magnetization, threshold field, reversal probability, threshold field. 1 INTRODUCTION Before 20 th Century, the Magnetic Recording (LMR) technology has dominated the storage technology on Hard Disk Drive (HDD) [1]. LMR uses Longitudinal Magnetic Anisotropy (LMA). Although once dominated, but since 2005 to 2009 there had been decreasing consumers of HDD with LMR technology. Just as shown in Figure 1, the reason is that it has limited storage capacity [2]. Fig. 1. The comparison of shipping ratio changes for HDD per year between perpendicular and longitudinal technology