Metal working – Method of mechanical manufacture – Electrical device making
Patent
1997-08-22
2000-09-05
Young, Lee
Metal working
Method of mechanical manufacture
Electrical device making
2960314, 2960315, 2960318, 216 22, 216 41, 427128, 427131, G11B 5127, B44C 122, B05D 512
Patent
active
061124028
ABSTRACT:
A magnetoresistive sensor fabricated by creating first antiferromagnetic layers on the upper surfaces of a lower-gap layer the antiferromagnetic layer having first and second exposed portions separated by a track width formed by the upper surface of the lower-gap layer. Then, a free magnetic layer, a nonmagnetic electrically conductive layer, a pinned magnetic layer and a second antiferromagnetic layer are stacked on the first antiferromagnetic layers and a portion on the track width one after another. Since the free magnetic layer is created after the first antiferromagnetic layer, the free magnetic layer and the first antiferromagnetic layer are adhered to each other with a high degree of reliability. When the direction of magnetization in the free magnetic layer is changed by an external magnetic field, the electrical resistance of the magnetoresistive sensor also changes. The change in electrical resistance is, in turn, used for detecting the external magnetic field. Since the first antiferromagnetic layers put the free magnetic layer in a single-domain state in the X direction, the amount of Barkhausen noise can be reduced.
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Kuriyama Toshihiro
Saito Masamichi
Sato Kiyoshi
Watanabe Toshinori
Alps Electric Co. ,Ltd.
Tugbang A. Dexter
Young Lee
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