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7377025 Method of forming an improved AP1 layer for a TMR device  
A TMR read head with improved voltage breakdown is formed by laying down the AP1 layer as two or more layers. Each AP1 sub-layer is exposed to a low energy plasma for a short time before the next...
7158356 Elimination of electric-pop noise in a MR device  
The invention relates to a magnetic recording head comprising: a bottom shield; a top shield; and AMR device with MR and SAL separated by a thin insulating layer; a first insulting gap layer...
7009822 AMR Sensor with a soft adjacent layer having high magnetization, high resistivity, low intrinsic anisotropy and near zero magnetostriction  
A high magnetization, high resistivity, low corrosion and near zero magnetostriction soft adjacent layer (SAL) is provided for a magnetoresistive (MR) sensor of a read head. The MR sensor may...
6842312 Dual stripe read head with magnetic support structures which provide a uniform magnetic field for stabilization during manufacture  
A method for stabilizing magnetic domains in dual stripe magnetic read heads is provided. This method first comprises providing a plurality of coupled magneto-resistive read elements in a spaced...
6663986 Magneto-resistive stripe element having a thin film conductor covered by a conductive capping layer  
A magneto-resistive (MR) stripe element includes a magnetically active body portion and a tri-layer electrical conductor structure arranged proximate the magnetically active body portion. The...
6583971 Elimination of electric-pop noise in MR/GMR device  
The invention relates to a magnetoresistive device comprising: a bottom shield; a top shield; an AMR/GMR device; a first insulating gap layer between said bottom shield and said AMR/GMR; a second...
6475649 Magnetic head  
The method of making the magnetic resistance element comprises the steps of: forming a first magnetizable layer, a non-magnetizable layer and a second magnetizable layer, in this order, on an...
6452765 CoNbTi as high resistivity SAL material for high-density MR  
A soft adjacent layer made from a ternary alloy material and a MR sensor utilizing this soft adjacent layer. The ternary alloy material CoXY includes cobalt (Co), a first transition metal X and a...
6373667 Single stripe magnetoresistive (MR) head  
A method for fabricating a soft adjacent layer (SAL) magnetoresistive (MR) sensor element and several soft adjacent layer (SAL) magnetoresistive (MR) sensor elements which may be fabricated...
6295718 Method for fabricating a non-parallel magnetically biased multiple magnetoresistive (MR) layer magnetoresistive (MR) sensor element  
Within a method for forming a magnetoresistive (MR) sensor element there is first provided a substrate. There is then formed over the substrate a first magnetoresistive (MR) layer having formed...
6229678 Magnetoresistive read sensor  
An improved magnetoresistive read sensor (100) and a method of fabricating magnetoresistive read sensor (100) that eliminates film removal is disclosed. The magnetoresistive sensor (100) is formed...
6154350 Soft adjacent layer-biased magnetoresistive head and method  
An MR head is biased to a soft adjacent layer so that deflection angles at any point around the MR element are made uniform. The SAL-biased MR head includes a SAL divided into a plurality of layers...
6137662 Magnetoresistive sensor with pinned SAL  
A magnetoresistive sensor including a magnetoresistive (MR) sensing element, a nonmagnetic layer ("spacer") contacting the magnetoresistive sensing element; a first antiferromagnetic (AFM) layer...
6091589 Soft adjacent layer (SAL) magnetoresistive (MR) sensor element with electrically insulated soft adjacent layer (SAL)  
Within a soft adjacent layer (SAL) magnetoresistive (MR) sensor element which may be employed within a magnetic head there is first employed a substrate. Formed over the substrate is a soft...
6088196 Magnetoresistive head and manufacturing method therefor  
A magnetoresistive head comprising a magnetoresistive film having electric resistance varying with a magnetic field, a pair of electrodes for causing a current to flow into the magnetoresistive...
6087026 Magnetoresistive head and magnetic read/write device  
A MR head employs a biasing soft magnetic film of a FeXN-based alloy which undergoes no change in the direction of its axis of easy magnetization even when subject to heat treatment. The MR head...
5966272 Magnetoresistive read head having an exchange layer  
A magnetoresistive (MR) read transducer having an exchange layer adjacent a soft adjacent layer (SAL). The exchange layer generates a transverse bias field which saturates the SAL with little or no...
5959809 Magnetoresistive head and method of manufacturing the same and magnetic recording apparatus  
A magnetoresistive head of the present invention comprises a non-magnetic layer formed on a soft magnetic layer used for applying a linearizing bias, a ferro-magnetic magnetoresistance layer formed...
5923505 Magnetoresistive sensor having a pinned soft magnetic layer  
A magnetoresistive (MR) read sensor fabricated on a substrate comprises an MR layer of magnetoresistive material, a soft adjacent layer (SAL) of soft magnetic material, and a manganese-based...
5870261 Magnetoresistive head  
A magnetoresistive head includes a magnetoresistive element and a for-bias soft magnetic film attached to the magnetoresistive element via a spacer. The for-bias soft magnetic film has an axis of...
5828528 MR sensors with selected resistances for the sensing and biasing layers to enhance reading capabilities  
A magnetoresistive sensor for detecting stored information from a magnetic medium and for providing an output voltage to auxiliary circuitry is disclosed. The magnetoresistive sensor includes a...
5800935 Magnetoresistive head  
In a magnetoresistive head, a magnetoresistive layer 6 detects a magnetic field signal from a magnetic recording medium on the basis of resistance changes, a soft magnetic bias layer 4 applies a...
5784226 Magnetoresistive head with optimized soft magnetic bias layer  
In a magnetoresistive head, a magnetoresistive layer (6) detects a magnetic field signal from a magnetic recording medium on the basis of resistance changes, a soft magnetic bias layer (4) applies...
5774309 Magnetic transducer and thin film magnetic head  
A central active area includes a MR film, a nonmagnetic spacer film and a soft magnetic film with the MR film constituting the lowermost layer on top of a supporting body, the nonmagnetic spacer...
5731936 Magnetoresistive (MR) sensor with coefficient enhancing that promotes thermal stability  
An MR sensor with an improved MR coefficient and improved thermal stability is provided by employing one or more chromium based spacer layers which are interfacially adjacent a Permalloy (NiFe)...
5715120 Magnetoresistance sensor with enhanced magnetoresistive effect  
A magnetoresistive (MR) sensor having end regions separated from each other by a central region. Hard bias layers disposed in the end regions longitudinally bias an MR layer which is formed in the...
5694275 Magnetoresistive magnetic head  
In a magnetoresistive magnetic head having a laminate composed of a magnetoresistive (MR) layer showing the magnetoresistive effect, a SHUNT layer as a non-magnetic layer and a soft adjacent layer...
5673162 Magnetoresistive head with soft adjacent layer comprising amorphous magnetic material  
A magnetoresistive head having a soft magnetic layer which comprises a Co--Fe--Ta amorphous magnetic material and applies a transverse bias magnetic field to a magnetoresistive layer. The amorphous...
5621593 Magnetoresistive head and method of fabricating the same  
The present invention relates a magnetoresistive head of an MR device. The magnetoresistive head comprises a nonmagnetic metal layer formed on an insulating layer, and a magnetic layer formed on...
5556718 Magnetoresistive head  
In a magnetoresistive effect head comprising a ferromagnetic magnetoresistive effect layer, an inverse ferromagnetic layer (3) for generating a longitudinal bias magnetic field by an exchange force...
5532892 Soft adjacent layer biased magnetoresistive device incorporating a natural flux closure design utilizing coplanar permanent magnet thin film stabilization  
A soft adjacent layer biased magnetoresistive ("MR") device, and a method for producing the same, which incorporates a natural flux closure design utilizing coplanar thin film permanent magnets to...
5521005 Magnetoresistive head  
In a magnetic head whose recording and reproduction sections are separated, the magnetoresistive element constituting the reproduction head has a structure comprising a soft magnetic film, a spacer...
5258884 Magnetoresistive read transducer containing a titanium and tungsten alloy spacer layer  
A magnetoresistive (MR) read transducer has a thin film MR layer of ferromagnetic material and a nonmagnetic spacer layer in contact with the MR layer. The thin film spacer layer comprises an alloy...
5155642 Anisotropy configuration for longitudinally constrained magnetoresistive transducers  
A magnetoresistive (MR) read transducer comprising an MR layer having longitudinally magnetized end regions separated by a central active region and a soft magnetic biasing layer parallel to but...
5001586 Very low noise magnetoresistive sensor for high density media applications  
A soft film biased magnetoresistive sensor (10) is fabricated to have reduced Barkhausen noise. The magnetic ratio of the film layers (14 and 18) is controlled to be in the range of 1.7 to 1.95 and...
4940511 Method for making a magnetoresistive read transducer  
A magnetoresistive (MR) read transducer comprising a thin film MR layer formed of ferromagnetic material and a nonmagnetic thin film spacer layer in contact with the MR layer. The spacer layer...
4928188 Magnetoresistive element sandwiched between a sal ferrite substrateand a cover containing an easy axis biasing magnet  
A magnetoresistive head is fabricated on a ferrite substrate which is both the mechanical support for the head assembly and a soft adjacent layer for biasing the magnetoresistive element of the...
4894741 Magneto-resistive head with improved sensitivity  
To provide optimized performance in a magneto-resistive head having a soft adjacent magnetic biasing layer separated from a current-carrying magneto-resistive sense film by an extremely thin...
4879619 Magnetoresistive read transducer  
A magnetoresistive (MR) read transducer comprising a thin film MR layer formed of ferromagnetic material and a nonmagnetic thin film spacer layer in contact with the MR layer. The spacer layer...
4833560 Self-biased magnetoresistive reproduce head  
In a magnetoresistive reproduce head which is self-biased by a saturated soft adjacent layer magnetically coupled to the magnetoresistive element, the induced anisotropy fields of the...
4816948 Magneto-resistive head  
Magneto-resistive head comprising a magneto-resistive film, and a soft magnetic film disposed at one side of said magneto-resistive film, which soft magnetic film is magnetized by electric current...
4814919 Soft-film-bias type magnetoresitive device  
A soft-film-bias type magnetoresistive device is disclosed in which a high-permeability magnetic film, an insulating film and a permalloy film are formed on a substrate in this order, and first,...
3864751 Induced bias magnetoresistive read transducer  
A magnetoresistive (MR) read transducer has one MR element and a soft magnetic bias film that is electrically insulated from the MR element. When current is applied to the MR element, the bias film...
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