“…Recently, the capacity of hard disk drives has been heading towards a stalemate since the thermal stability of the conventional media has reached its limitation [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ]. In order to increase recording densities, several techniques have been proposed to overcome the stability limitation, such as exchange-coupled-composite (ECC) media, heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) bit-patterned media (BPM), and microwave-assisted magnetic recording (MAMR) [ 1 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 ]. The ECC media have been introduced to improve the magnetic properties of the media; the major goal is to reduce the magnitude of the switching field, H sw [ 7 , 12 , 13 ].…”