Abstract:
A magnetic laminated film used for a magnetic transducer is constructed in such a way that a ferromagnetic film as a ferromagnetic body is made of, for example, a Ni--Fe alloy film, formed on a substrate made of, for example, glass, and an antiferromagnetic film as an antiferromagnetic body having crystal structure of body-centered cubic lattice, for example, made of a Cr alloy film is laminated on the top layer. Further, a magnetic transducer using the magnetic laminated film is applied to a magnetic head in a magnetic recording device in accordance with the present invention.
Abstract:
A thin film magnetic head employs antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic layers in a layered structure to provide magnetic exchange field coupling. This structure is provided with a buffer layer which is in contact with either the ferromagnetic layer or the antiferromagnetic layer and whose action enhances the exchange field coupling between the antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic layers and improves the corrosion resistance.
Abstract:
A multilayer comprising magnetic layers and nonmagnetic layers, which are stacked in a manner to produce a magnetoresistance effect, is formed on a main surface of a substrate having at least the surface portion formed of a single crystal of cubic system. The (110) plane of said single crystal constituting the main surface of the substrate. The magnetic layers are distorted such that a uniaxial easy axis of magnetization is formed within a plane.
Abstract:
An exchange-biased magnetoresistive (MR) read transducer in which the MR layer composition is changed at the interface with an antiferromagnetic layer, which is in direct contact with the ferromagnetic MR layer. The exchange-bias field strength H.sub.UA in the MR layer is increased at room temperature by adding a specially-optimized transition region in the ferromagnetic MR layer at the interface. The percentage of iron in the ferromagnetic alloy varies from a higher value at the interface to a lower value at the opposite end of the transition region. The higher iron ratio at the antiferromagnetic interface enhances the exchange-bias field H.sub.UA and the lower iron ratio throughout the bulk of the ferromagnetic MR layer maintains the lower coercivity preferred in the layer, thereby enhancing the longitudinal bias field with respect to the MR coercivity. Advantageously, the enhanced longitudinal bias effect of the special ferromagnetic transition region does not reduce the critical temperature T.sub.cr at which the temperature-dependent exchange-bias field H.sub.UA (T) approaches zero.
Abstract:
In binary data information stores, the storing member may comprise a thin layer magnetic structure made of at least one ferromagnetic layer, or of two such layers interacting through a non-magnetic film coupling. In such structures, the so-called ''''creep'''' phenomenon, and other disturbing phenomenons, lessen when the coercive magnetic field increases. Said coercive magnetic field is made of an increased apparent value from providing one of the faces of such a structure with a thin lamina of a magnetic material having a rigid magnetic lattice which is randomly inorganized at the microscopic scale.
Abstract:
Example embodiments relate to magnetic memory devices and methods for manufacturing the same. The magnetic memory device includes a magnetic tunnel junction layer including a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer, and a first tunnel barrier layer between the first and second magnetic layers. The second magnetic layer is disposed on the first tunnel barrier layer and is in direct contact with the first tunnel barrier layer. The second magnetic layer includes cobalt-iron-beryllium (CoFeBe). A beryllium content of CoFeBe in the second magnetic layer ranges from about 2 at % to about 15 at %.
Abstract:
One general embodiment includes an array of magnetic transducers each having: a current-perpendicular-to-plane sensor, magnetic shields on opposite sides of the sensor, and a stabilizing layered structure between at least one of the magnetic shields and the sensor. The stabilizing layered structure includes an antiferromagnetic layer, a first ferromagnetic layer adjacent the antiferromagnetic layer, a second ferromagnetic layer, and an antiparallel coupling layer between the ferromagnetic layers. The antiferromagnetic layer pins a magnetization direction in the first ferromagnetic layer along an antiferromagnetic polarized direction of the antiferromagnetic layer. A magnetization direction in the second ferromagnetic layer is opposite the magnetization direction in the first ferromagnetic layer. Each transducer also includes spacers on opposite sides of the sensor, at least one of the spacers being positioned between the sensor and the stabilizing layered structure. At least one of the spacers includes an electrically conductive ceramic layer.
Abstract:
Disclosed are magnetic structures, including on-chip inductors comprising laminated layers comprising, in order, a barrier and/or adhesion layer, a antiferromagnetic layer, a magnetic growth layer, a soft magnetic layer, an insulating non-magnetic spacer, a soft magnetic layer, a magnetic growth later, an antiferromagnetic layer. Also disclosed are methods of making such structures.
Abstract:
A nano multilayer film of electrical field modulation type, a field effect transistor of electrical field modulation type, an electrical field sensor of switch type, and a random access memory of electrical field drive type can obtain an electro-resistance effect in an electrical field modulation multilayer film at room temperature. The nano multilayer film includes in succession from bottom to top a bottom layer, a substrate, a bottom layer, a functional layer, a buffer layer, an insulation layer, a conductive layer, and a cap layer. The buffer layer and the insulation layer can be selectively added as required when the conductive layer is made of a magnetic metal. The effect of influencing and changing the conductivity of the metal layer and thus adjusting the change in the resistance of the devices can obtain different resistance states corresponding to different electrical fields and achieving an electro-resistance effect.