The minimax optimization method is applied broadly to industrial design, agricultural test, automation, economy and so on. In the field of magnetic recording, we utilize it in determining optimal fabricating conditions of recording thin film media. In the procedure of thin film fabrication, the coercivity, the remenance- hickness product and the squareness ratio of magnetic thin film are considered as multiple-objective functions of these parameters: element composition, atmosphere pressure, substrate temperature, post-annealing temperature and thin film thickness. The optimal fabricating conditions and high performance of CoCrPt thin film are obtained using the minimax optimization based on a series of experiments and data. The coercivity of CoCrPt thin film is up to 3523Oe; the remenance-thickness product is up to 1.75 memu/cm2; and the squareness ratio is up to 0.83. The results show that the minimax optimization method can improve the fabricating conditions of recording thin film and is helpful for a short path of achieved high performance of CoCrPt thin film.
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