Magnetic‐Pole Flip by Millimeter Wave
Shin‐ichi Ohkoshi, Marie Yoshikiyo, Kenta Imoto, Kosuke Nakagawa, Asuka Namai, Hiroko Tokoro, Yuji YAHAGI, Kyohei Takeuchi, Fangda Jia, Seiji Miyashita, Makoto Nakajima, Hongsong Qiu, Kosaku Kato, Takehiro Yamaoka, Masashi Shirata, Kenji Naoi, Koichi Yagishita, Hiroaki Doshita
Abstract
In the era of Big Data and the Internet of Things, data archiving is a key technology. From this viewpoint, magnetic recordings are drawing attention because they guarantee long-term data storage. To archive an enormous amount of data, further increase of the recording density is necessary. Herein a new magnetic recording methodology, "focused-millimeter-wave-assisted magnetic recording (F-MIMR)," is proposed. To test this methodology, magnetic films based on epsilon iron oxide nanoparticles are prepared and a focused-millimeter-wave generator is constructed using terahertz (THz) light. Irradiating the focused millimeter wave to epsilon iron oxide instantly switches its magnetic pole direction. The spin dynamics of F-MIMR are also calculated using the stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert model considering all of the spins in an epsilon iron oxide nanoparticle. In F-MIMR, the heat-up effect of the recording media is expected to be suppressed. Thus, F-MIMR can be applied to high-density magnetic recordings.