Applications in Magnetic Recording Industry

In the present technology, digital magnetic recording system in the computer industry 

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The most important modern applications of iron oxides are as ores for the iron and steel industry and as pigments (Heine and Volz, 1993). Fe oxides are also used extensively as magnetic pigments in electronic recording devices and as catalysts in industrially important syntheses. Other minor, but still important applications are listed in Table 19.1 and are discussed in the following sections. 

Thin metalhc fihns play an important role in diverse fields of applications, with special emphasis on micro- and nanoelectronics for which the metals Al, Cu, Ag, Au, Ti and W are essential Additional fields of commercial interests are electrodes as well as reflective, corrosion-resistant, oxidation-resistant and abrasion-resistant coatings . Noble metals (periods 5 and 6 of groups 8-11 of the periodic table of the elements) are of special interest due to their manifold application in heterogeneous catalysis. Other metals used in specialized industrial applications or as components of more complex materials such as metal alloys are Ni, Pd, Pt, Ag and Au. For example, FePt-based nanostructured materials are excellent candidates for future high-density magnetic recording media . ... 

Intermetallics were used in this century first and primarily for applications as functional materials, as is exemplified in Table 1. Indeed the first industrial applications relied on the special magnetic behavior of certain phases, and respective materials developments led e.g. to Sendust, which shows outstanding magnetic properties and wear resistance and is widely used for magnetic heads in tape recorders (Yamamoto, 1980 Brock, 1986). In the second... 

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is at present one of the most widely applied physical techniques in biology, and its potential applications increase day by day, as more sophisticated instrumentation becomes available and deeper theoretical knowledge is obtained. The phenomenon of NMR was discovered simultaneously by Purcell and his associates at Harvard University and by Bloch and co-workers at Stanford University, for which they were jointly awarded the Nobel prize in physics in 1952. In the lipid field there are two main types of NMR spectroscopy that are of interest broad-line experiments, concerned mainly with the spectra obtained from samples in the solid state, or from oriented phases, and narrow-line, or high-resolution, experiments carried out with samples in the liquid, solution or gas phases. Both types of NMR spectroscopy are extremely useful in the study of the lipids. In addition, Fourier transform (FT) NMR has helped increase the sensitivity of the technique and the so-called pulse method of recording spectra has literally widened the prospect of NMR applications in the field of lipid research and industry. The application of NMR to solid fats is still in its infancy (Pines et aL, 1973 Schaefer and Stejskal, 1979 BocieketaL, 1985). 

This technique has been used to produce glass-ceramic components that are particularly useful in equipment manufacturing, micro-mechanics, and in the electrical industry. The material can be used for the following applications gas discharge panels, ink-jet printer plates, fluid devices, and magnetic recording head pads. Examples of these applications are shown in Fig. 4-2. 

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