摘要:
The method and system for providing a perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) head are described. The method and system include providing a metal underlayer and a PMR pole on the metal underlayer. The metal underlayer is amorphous. The PMR pole has a bottom and a top wider than the bottom. The PMR pole includes at least a first ferromagnetic layer, a second ferromagnetic layer, and a third ferromagnetic layer. The first ferromagnetic layer is antiferromagnetically coupled with the second ferromagnetic layer. The second ferromagnetic layer is antiferromagnetically coupled with the third ferromagnetic layer.
摘要:
Provided are a perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) head and a method of manufacturing the same. The PMR head includes a main pole, a return yoke, and a coil to which current is supplied so that the main pole generates a magnetic field required for recording data in a recording medium. The PMR head further includes side shields disposed on both sides of the main pole to be spaced a first gap apart from the main pole; and a top shield disposed opposite the main pole and the side shields to be spaced a second gap apart from the main pole and the side shields at one end of the return yoke.
摘要:
Magnetoresistive (MR) sensors are disclosed having mechanisms for reducing edge effects such as Barkhausen noise. The sensors include a pinned layer and a free layer with an exchange coupling layer adjoining the free layer, and a ferromagnetic layer having a fixed magnetic moment adjoining the exchange coupling layer. The exchange coupling layer and ferromagnetic layer form a synthetic antiferromagnetic structure with part of the free layer, providing bias that reduces magnetic instabilities at edges of the free layer. Such synthetic antiferromagnetic structures can provide a stronger bias than conventional antiferromagnetic layers, as well as a more exactly defined track width than conventional hard magnetic bias layers. The synthetic antiferromagnetic structures can also provide protection for the free layer during processing, in contrast with the trimming of conventional antiferromagnetic layers that exposes if not removes part of the free layer.
摘要:
A method and system for providing a tunneling junction is disclosed. The method and system includes providing a free layer, a pinned layer, and a barrier between the free layer and the pinned layer. The free layer and the pinned layer are ferromagnetic. The barrier layer is an insulator. The magnetic tunneling junction is coupled to an &agr;-Ta lead.
摘要:
A method and system for fabricating a perpendicular magnetic recording head, and the head so formed, are described. The method includes depositing an underlayer directly on an insulating layer. The underlayer preferably includes at least one of a nonferromagnetic metal, silicon oxide, and silicon nitride. A pole layer, which has a pole removal rate, is provided on the underlayer. The method and system further include forming a perpendicular magnetic recording pole from the pole layer. The perpendicular magnetic recording pole has a top and a bottom that is narrower than the top. The process of forming the perpendicular magnetic recording pole further includes removing a portion of the pole layer such that a pole removal rate for the pole layer is less than or substantially equal to a removal rate of the underlayer during the removing step.
摘要:
Provided are a magnetic head and a method of fabricating the same. The magnetic head includes a reading head having an acute or an obtuse inclined angle with respect to an air-bearing surface (ABS). In addition, the magnetic head includes a writing head having a magnetic coil that is formed in parallel with the reading head and the ABS. The method of fabricating the reading head includes forming a first shield layer, a reading sensor, and a second shield layer on an inclined surface of an insulating layer that is formed in a reading head area.
摘要:
A method of fabricating a write head for perpendicular recording is provided. The write head has a pole, a shield in proximity to the pole, and a gap between the pole and the shield. The method includes forming a pole layer on an undercoat layer, forming a mask over at least a portion of the pole layer, and forming the pole by removing material from the pole layer. The pole has a top surface, a first side, and a second side. The method further includes forming a first gap portion of the gap along the first side and along the second side of the pole, forming a protective layer over at least a portion of the first gap portion, removing the mask, and removing the protective layer. The method further includes forming a second gap portion of the gap over at least the top surface of the pole and forming the shield over at least the second gap portion.
摘要:
A magnetic head comprising a first layer containing NiFe having a concentration of iron that is at least thirty percent and not more than seventy percent; a second layer that adjoins the first layer and contains FeCoN having a concentration of iron that is greater than the second layer's concentration of cobalt, having a concentration of nitrogen that is less than the second layer's concentration of cobalt and less than three percent; and a third layer containing FeCoNi having a concentration of nickel that is less than eight percent, having a concentration of cobalt that is less than the third layer's concentration of iron and greater than the third layer's concentration of nickel, the third layer adjoining only one of the first and second layers. The first and second layers may be repeated to form a magnetically soft high BS laminate for a pole layer.
摘要:
A magnetic random access memory (MRAM) device has increased ΔR/R for sensing a state of a pin-dependent tunneling (SDT) device. The MRAM device includes plural transistors connected to a read line for sensing the state of the SDT device. Plural transistors lower an underlying resistance during reading, increasing ΔR/R. The plural transistors can share a source region.
摘要:
A method and system for providing a tunneling magnetoresistive sensor is disclosed. The method and system include providing a pinned layer, a free layer and an insulating layer between the pinned and free layers. The pinned and free layers are ferromagnetic. The method and system also include providing a hard mask layer to be used in defining the sensor at the top of the tunneling magnetoresistive sensor. The method and system also include using the hard mask layer to define the tunneling magnetoresistive sensor. Thus, the pinned layer, the free layer and the insulating layer are capable of having a minimum dimension of less than 0.2 &mgr;m.