Vol. 2, No. 4 October 2002 Contents
Keynotes
Prospects for New Storage Technologies in the Age of Communication-Broadcasting Fusion (Invited Review Paper)
H. Oshima……..121
New Trends and Technical Challenges in Optical Storage (Invited Review Paper)
B. Bechevet……..126
MO Effects and MO Devices
Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors for Magneto-Optical Applications (Invited Review Paper)
V. Zayets, R. Akimoto, H. Saito, and K. Ando……..131
Magneto-Optical Study of Ferromagnetic Nanostructured Materials and Thin Films (Invited Review Paper)
R. V. Pisarev, V. V. Pavlov, and A. V. Kimel……..136
Ab Initio Calculations of Magneto-optical Effects (Invited Paper)
J. Kuneš and P. M. Oppeneer……..141
Resent Development of Magneto-Optical Devices (Invited Review Paper)
N. Nakamura……..147
Quadratic Magneto-Optic Effects in Reflection from Uniaxial Crystals
K. Postava, J. Pištora, S. Višñovský, D. Hrabovský, and T. Yamaguchi……..151
Particles Size Dependence of Faraday Rotation in Maghemite Ferrofluid
F. Royer, D. Jamon, J. J. Rousseau, V. Cabuil, D. Zins, H. Roux……..155
Dependence on γ-Fe and Cu Thickness of Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect for [γ-Fe/Cu] Epitaxial Multilayers
D. Higashida, Y. Ando, L. Lin, M. Doi, H. Asano, and M. Matsui……..158
Nonlinear Diffraction by Two-Dimensional Magnetic Photonic Crystal (Magnetic Bubble Lattice)
I. L. Lyubchanskii, N. N. Dadoenkova, M. I. Lyubchanskii, E. A. Shapovalov, A. E. Zabolotin, and Th. Rasing……..160
Volterra Analysis of the Non-Linear Magneto-Optic Recording Channel
C. Tannous and J. Gieraltowski……..163
Magnetooptical and Reflectivity Studies in SrTiO3
K. Sato and T. Ishibashi……..167
Magneto-Optical Spectra of Single Crystalline CoCrPt Films between 1.2 and 6 eV
K. Sato, M. Hosoba, S. Shimizu, K. Terayama, and M. Futamoto……..171
Magnetic Nanostructures Patterned by Focused Ion Beam in an Ultrathin Pt/Co/Pt Film
R. Hyndman, A. Mougin, V. Repain, J. Ferré, J. P. Jamet, J. Gierak, D. Mailly, C. Chappert, V. Mathet, P. Warin, and J. N. Chapman……..175
Modelling of Two-Dimensional Magnetooptical Gratings
J. Vlcek, J. Pištora, D. Ciprian, T. Yamaguchi, and K. Postava……..179
Materials, Film Deposition, and Characterization
Multilayed Transmissive Disc (Invited Review Paper)
J.-C. Lehureau and J. Colineau……..183
Performance of an Electron Beam Recorder for Disk Mastering (Invited Paper)
M. Katsumura, Y. Hosoda, H. Nishiwaki, K. Yamato, T. Higuchi, Y. Kojima, Y. Wada, T. Iida, and F. Yokogawa……..188
Magnetic Characteristics of TbFeCo/FePt Double Layer for MO Recording
Y. Itoh, M. Takeuchi, A. Tsukamoto, K. Nakagawa, A. Itoh, and T. Katayama……..194
Spinel Oxides Thin Films for Write-Once Optical Recording with Blue Laser Sources
P. Tailhades, L. Presmanes, I. Pasquet, C. Bonningue, and F. Laporte……..198
Magnetic and Mössbauer Studies of Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy in Nanocrystalline Gd-Fe Films
N. H. Duc, A. Fnidiki, F. Richomme, N. T. Huy, and J. Teillet……..202
Exchange Couplng in Fe/FeSi/Si/FeSi/Fe Structures with Combined Spacers
R. R. Gareev, D. E. Bürgler, M. Buchmeier, R. Schreiber, and P. Grünberg……..205
Deposition of Multilayers Using Fast Switching Triple Ring Magnetron Cathode
B. Cord, O. Keitel, H. Rohrmann, and K.-H. Schuller……..207
Superior Film Composition Uniformity and Adjustable Composition for the Next Generation MO Technology
O. Rattunde, M. Dubs, H. Rohrmann, V. Schlegel, and T. Eisenhammer……..211
Magneto-Optic Laser Deposited Bi3Fe5O12/Gd3Ga5O12(111) Films: Characterization and Imaging
S. Flament, Warsito, L. Mechin, C. Gunther, K. Kawano, G. Kong, R. A. Chakalov, J. S. Abell, S. Kahl, S. I. Khartsev, and A. M. Grishin……..214
Developing the Potential of Plasmon Enhancement in Perpendicular (PtCo Multilayer) Magneto-Optic Recording Media
D. M. Newman, R. J. Matelon, and M. L. Wears……..216
Spectroscopic Studies of Thin Film Electron Trapping Optical Memory Media (CaS: Eu, Sm)
D. M. Newman, J. Wu, and I. V. Viney……..220
Signal Non-Linearities and Their Effect upon the Data Recovery Process in High-Density Optical Storage
P. W. Nutter, C. D. Wright, I. Gonzales-Arcelus, and S. D. Jepson……..224
Measurement and Observation
Stereo-Microscopy of Atomic Arrangements on Thin Films Using Circular Dichroism in X-Ray Photoelectron Angular Distribution (Invited Review Paper)
S. Okamoto, A. Nakamoto, S. Hayashi, K. Fukumoto, T. Nakatani, T. Matsushita, K. Hattori, and H. Daimon……..228
Imaging Magnetic Microstructures of with Soft X-Ray Microscopies
P. Fischer, G. Denbeaux, F. Nolting, D. Goll, T. Eimüller, C. Quitmann, and G. Schütz……..234
Hard X-Ray Magnetic Linear Dichroism Imaging
K. Sato, Y. Ueji, K. Okitsu, T. Matsushita, J. Saito, T. Takayama, and Y. Amemiya……..238
Magneto-Optic Observation on Micron-sized Periodic Structure
D. Hrabovský, D. Ciprian, J. Jaworowicz, M. Gmitra, D. Horváth, I. Vávra, A. R. Fert, and J. Pištora……..240
Visualization of Magnetic Structures in Superconductors and Magnetic Materials Using Magneto-Optical Garnet Films
M. V. Indenbom, L. S. Uspenskaya, C. J. van der Beek, and A. Konczykowski……..244
Magneto-Optic and Scanning Probe Microscopy Studies of Directly Patterned Magnetic Films
N. I. Polushkin and K. V. Rao……..248
Domain Physics and Dynamics
Femtosecond Laser Pulse Induced Magnetization Reversal: Towards Thermo-Magnetic Writing at THz Rates (Invited Paper)
J. Hohlfeld, E. Jurdik, T. Gerrits, H. Awano, N. Ota, and Th. Rasing……..252
Dynamic Observation of Wall Speed in MAMMOS Reading Layer (Invited Paper)
A. Itoh, M. Akiyama, T. Ishikawa, and K. Nakagawa……..258
Simulations for Recording Processes of Crescent-Shape Domain in MO Media
A. Tsukamoto, K. Sekine, K. Iimura, K. Nakagawa, and A. Itoh……..264
Dynamical Properties of Magnetization Reversal of (Ga, Mn)As Layers Studied by MOKE Measurements
D. Hrabovský, E. Vanelle, A. R. Fert, J. P. Redoules, J. Sadowski, J. Kanski, and L. Ilver……..268
Simulation of Thermomagnetic Recording Process Using Magnetic Field Modulation Method
T. Koyama, T. Kato, S. Iwata, and S. Tsunashima……..271
MSR, MAMMOS, and DWDD
Two-Inch-Diameter Magneto-Optical Disk System with 3 GB Capacity and 24 Mbps Data Transfer Rate Using a Red Laser (Invited Paper)
M. Birukawa, Y. Hino, K. Nishikiori, K. Uchida, T. Shiratori, T. Hiroki, Y. Miyaoka, and Y. Hozumi……..273
Read/Write Characteristics of Zero Field MAMMOS (Invited Review Paper)
K. Mitani, H. Watanabe, N. Takagi, H. Noguchi, N. Mamiya, H. Terasaki, H. Awano, M. Sekine, M. Tani, O. Ishizaki, and K. Shimazaki……..279
Signal Processing for the MAMMOS Channel (Invited Review Paper)
A. H. J. Immink, M. W. Blüm, C. A. Verschuren, and H. W. van Kesteren……..285
“iD PHOTO” for Mobile Storage
Y. Suzuki, S. Tanaka, S. Ichiura, H. Takao, and S. Ohnuki……..290
Toward Tiny Domains Less Than 1/10 of a Laser Beam Spot, -Zero Field MAMMOS-
M. Tani, K. Inoue, M. Sekine, S. Imai, H. Awano, K. Shimazaki, and N. Ota……..294
Analysis of MAMMOS Readout from Crescent Domains Using a Blue Laser
S. Imai, Y. Nakatani, H. Awano, O. Ishizaki, and N. Ota……..297
Modelling the MAMMOS Record and Readout Processes
M. K. Loze, C. D. Wright, R. Atkinson, and W. W. Clegg……..300
The Recording of Tiny Marks Less Than 100 nm on Magneto-optical Medium Sputtered From RE-TM Alloy Target
M. Murakami, T. Sakaguchi, Y. Kawaguchi, M. Birukawa, T. Hiroki, Y. Hozumi, T. Shiratori, and E. Fujii……..304
Asymmetric Run Length Constraints for Increased Resolution and Power Margin in MAMMOS Readout
C. A. Verschuren and H. W. van Kesteren……..308
A New Type Center Aperture Detection Magnetically Induced Super-resolution Disk Using Exchange-Coupling Force
Y. Tanaka and Y. Muto……..312
Combined Optical and Magnetic Technologies
Issues in the Design of Media for Hybrid Recording (Invited Paper)
T. W. McDaniel and W. A. Challener……..316
Effects of Optical Spot/Magnetic Head Misalignment for Perpendicular Hybrid Magnetic Recording Systems (Invited Review Paper)
T. Rausch, P. Herget, A. Itagi, D. D. Stancil, J. A. Bain, J.-G. Zhu, and T. E. Schlesinger……..322
High Density Recording Capability of Laser-Assisted Magnetic Recording
K. Kojima, S. Miyanishi, J. Sato, K. Takayama, H. Fuji, H. Katayama, and K. Ohta……..328
Near Field Recording
Near Field MO Recording System (Invited Paper)
S. Kim, J.-M. Park, H. Jeong, J.-Y. Kim, J.-H. Kim, and N. Kim……..330
Spatial Light Distribution in Magneto Opical Multilayered Systems for High Numerical Aperture and Solid Immersion Lens Focusing: Influence on Thermal and MO Effects (Invited Paper)
A. Lagrange, L. Poupinet, C. Armand, and B. Bechevet……..336
Design of Optical Flying Head for Near-Field Recording
S. Kim, Y. Kim, J.-M. Park, J.-Y. Kim, J.-K. Lee, K.-H. Chung, and D.-E. Kim……..341
Near Field Optics-Solid Immersion Lens with Magnetic Field Modulation for Magneto-Optical Recording
R. Sbiaa, T. Suzuki, and E. Ahmad……..345
Near-Field Magneto-Optical Media
J.-H. Kim, S. Kim, J.-K. Lee, K.-H. Chung, and D.-E. Kim……..348
Author Index (Vol. 2, No. 4)……..352