Method of manufacturing magnetic recording medium

A method of manufacturing a magnetic recording medium, comprising:

• forming an unfinished product of the magnetic recording medium, including a magnetic recording layer and a protection layer that are successively formed on a substrate;
• and forming a lubricant layer on a surface of the protection layer of the unfinished product,
• wherein the protection layer includes carbon,
• wherein the forming the lubricant layer includes coating a first organic fluorine compound on the protection layer of the unfinished product to cause adsorption of the first organic fluorine compound to adsorption sites on the surface of the protection layer via a functional group at a terminal of the first organic fluorine compound, so that the first organic fluorine compound functions as a free layer, and
• after the coating, supplying a gas, including a second organic fluorine compound, onto the protection layer of the unfinished product, and decomposing the second organic fluorine compound by Townsend discharge and ultraviolet ray irradiation to cause chemical bonding of a decomposition product of the second organic fluorine compound onto the surface of the protection layer, so that the second organic compound functions as a bond layer,
• wherein the first organic fluorine compound has a carboxyl group or a hydroxyl group at one terminal thereof, and wherein the decomposition product of the second organic fluorine compound is in an active state under an environment of the Townsend discharge andthe ultraviolet ray irradiation, and also chemically bonds to locations other than the adsorption sites on the surface of the protection layer.