Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval – Head – Hall effect
Patent
1996-08-23
1997-12-23
Levy, Stuart S.
Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval
Head
Hall effect
G11B 539
Patent
active
057012237
ABSTRACT:
A spin valve magnetoresistive (SVMR) sensor uses a laminated antiparallel (AP) pinned layer in combination with an improved antiferromagnetic (AF) exchange biasing layer. The pinned layer comprises two ferromagnetic films separated by a nonmagnetic coupling film such that the magnetizations of the two ferromagnetic films are strongly coupled together antiferromagnetically in an antiparallel orientation. This laminated AP pinned layer is magnetically rigid in the small field excitations required to rotate the SVMR sensor's free layer. When the magnetic moments of the two ferromagnetic layers in this AP pinned layer are nearly the same, the net magnetic moment of the pinned layer is small. However, the exchange field is correspondingly large because it is inversely proportional to the net magnetic moment. The laminated AP pinned layer has its magnetization fixed or pinned by an AF material that is highly corrosion resistant but that has an exchange anisotropy too low to be usable in conventional SVMR sensors. In the preferred embodiment the AF layer is nickel-oxide and is formed on one of the magnetoresistive (MR) shields that serves as the substrate. Thus the AF material also serves as the insulating MR gap material. The location of the AF layer and the laminated AP-pinned layer to which it is exchange coupled on the bottom of the SVMR sensor allows for improved longitudinal biasing of the free layer when the SVMR sensor is fabricated.
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Fontana, Jr. Robert Edward
Gurney Bruce Alvin
Lin Tsann
Speriosu Virgil Simon
Tsang Ching Hwa
Berthold Thomas R.
International Business Machines - Corporation
Korzuch William R.
Levy Stuart S.
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