Abstract:
The invention provides a thin-film magnetic head wherein the combined release angle Φ for a dominant recording magnetic field generated from a magnetic pole layer toward a patterned media for the purpose of recording magnetic information is set to within an angle range of 35° to 65° with respect to a patterned media surface. It is thus possible to invert, with efficiency and reliability, the directions of magnetization of isolate bits lined up on the patterned media for high-density recording.
Abstract:
An NiCr seed layer based bottom spin valve sensor element having a synthetic antiferromagnet pinned (SyAP) layer and a capping layer comprising either a single specularly reflecting nano-oxide layer (NOL) or a bi-layer comprising a non-metallic layer and a specularly reflecting nano-oxide layer. As a result of their structure and the method of their fabrication, these elements have higher GMR ratios and lower resistances than elements of the prior art.
Abstract:
A perpendicular magnetic recording element includes a recording magnetic pole film and a write shield film. The recording magnetic pole film has a yoke portion and a main magnetic pole for perpendicular recording. The main magnetic pole projects from a front end of the yoke portion to have an end on a medium-facing surface. The write shield film faces the recording magnetic pole film and has a height equal to or smaller than that of the recording magnetic pole film, as measured rearward from the medium-facing surface.
Abstract:
A method for forming a bottom spin valve sensor having a synthetic antiferromagnetic pinned (SyAP) layer, antiferromagnetically coupled to a pinning layer, in which one of the layers of the SyAP is formed as a three layer lamination that contains a specularly reflecting oxide layer of FeTaO. The sensor formed according to this method has an extremely high GMR ratio and exhibits good pinning strength.
Abstract:
In a magnetic recording medium comprising a length of a non-magnetic plastic substrate and a magnetic thin layer of Co or Co-Ni or Co-Ni-Cr formed thereon, when the coercive force of the medium is measured by changing the measuring direction in a plane defined by a longitudinal direction of the substrate and a direction normal to the major surface of the substrate, the following relationship is met:(Hc.sub.max -Hc.sub.min)/Hc(0).ltoreq.0.9where Hc.sub.max is the maximum coercive force, Hc.sub.min is the minimum coercive force, and Hc(0) is a coercive force in the longitudinal direction of the substrate.
Abstract:
A magnetic recording medium which comprises a first layer formed on a substrate and comprising Co; Co and Ni; Co and O; or Co, Ni and O, and a second magnetic layer formed on the first magnetic layer and comprising Co and Cr at a weight ratio of Co/Cr being from 2.5 to 8.
Abstract:
An MR element in a CPP structure includes a spacer layer made of Cu, a magnetic pinned layer containing CoFe and a free layer containing CoFe that are laminated to sandwich the spacer layer. The free layer is located below the magnetic pinned layer. The free layer is oriented in a (001) crystal plane, the spacer layer is formed and oriented in a (001) crystal plane on the (001) crystal plane of the free layer. Therefore, in a low resistance area where an area resistivity (AR) of the MR element is, for example, lower than 0.3 Ω·μm2, an MR element that has a large variation of a resistance is obtained.
Abstract:
A gap between a main pole and auxiliary pole composing a thin film magnetic head having a microwave assisted function of the present invention is filled with a nonmagnetic dielectric layer to embed a microwave radiator. The nonmagnetic dielectric layer has an inclined surface at a end on a side of an opposing medium surface by which the microwave radiated from the microwave radiator to be bent toward the main pole, whereby the microwave magnetic field generated from the microwave generator can be gathered immediately below the main pole, further improving the microwave assisted effect.
Abstract:
A magnetic sensor comprises a first ferromagnetic body, a second ferromagnetic body, a channel extending from the first ferromagnetic body to the second ferromagnetic body, a magnetic shield covering the channel, and an insulating film disposed between the channel and the magnetic shield, while the magnetic shield has a through-hole extending toward the channel.
Abstract:
A magnetoresistive device comprising a magnetoresistive unit, an upper shield layer and a lower shield layer stacked such that the magnetoresistive unit is held between them. The magnetoresistive unit comprises a nonmagnetic metal intermediate layer, a first ferromagnetic layer and a second ferromagnetic layer stacked with the nonmagnetic metal intermediate layer in the middle. When no bias magnetic field is applied, the first and second ferromagnetic layers have mutually antiparallel magnetizations. The magnetoresistive unit further comprises first and second side shield layers, and first and second biasing layers located to be magnetically coupled to the first and second side shield layers, wherein magnetic fluxes fed from the bias magnetic fields pass through the first and second side shield layers positioned in proximity to the magnetoresistive unit such that the magnetizations of the first and second ferromagnetic layers become substantially orthogonal to each other.