Spin valve sensor with improved magnetic stability of the pinned

Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval – Head – Hall effect

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ABSTRACT:
A multilayered spin valve read head including an antiferromagnetic pinning layer and a ferromagnetic pinned layer which can maintain a high pinning field between the layers while minimizing the coercivity of the pinning layer. The apparatus and method of the invention comprise placing a thin discontinuous nonmagnetic interlayer such as Cu between the antiferromagnetic and the ferromagnetic layers. In one aspect, the invention comprises a supporting substrate or carrier; a first layer of antiferromagnetic material formed over the substrate; a second layer comprising a discontinuous nonmagnetic material formed over the antiferromagnetic first layer; a third layer comprising a ferromagnetic material formed over the discontinuous nonmagnetic material second layer, the first and third layer exhibiting exchange anisotropy which fixes the direction of magnetization of the third layer; a fourth layer comprising a nonmagnetic material formed over the ferromagnetic third layer; and, a fifth layer comprising a ferromagnetic material formed over the nonmagnetic fourth layer.

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