oa Platinum Media for Data Storage

The first international conference dedicated entirely to magneto-optic recording, MORIS’91, Magneto-Optic Recording International Symposium, was held in Tokyo, Japan, from 16th to 19th April 1991. The scope of the conference covered a broad range of topics, including current and potential magneto-optic materials, their processing and properties, and the physics and technology of magneto-optic recording. Rare earth alloys are currently used as first generation magneto-optic materials, but platinum/cobalt and palladium/cobalt multilayered thin films show great promise for future use as second generation media. A selection of the papers presented are reviewed here.