发明申请
US20050207070A1 Current-perpendicular-to-plane magnetoresistive sensor with free layer stabilized by in-stack orthogonal magnetic coupling
有权
电流垂直于平面的磁阻传感器,具有通过堆叠正交磁耦合稳定的自由层
- 专利标题: Current-perpendicular-to-plane magnetoresistive sensor with free layer stabilized by in-stack orthogonal magnetic coupling
- 专利标题(中): 电流垂直于平面的磁阻传感器,具有通过堆叠正交磁耦合稳定的自由层
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申请号: US10802639申请日: 2004-03-16
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公开(公告)号: US20050207070A1公开(公告)日: 2005-09-22
- 发明人: Matthew Carey , Jeffrey Childress , Bruce Gurney , Stefan Maat
- 申请人: Matthew Carey , Jeffrey Childress , Bruce Gurney , Stefan Maat
- 主分类号: G01R33/09
- IPC分类号: G01R33/09 ; G11B5/127 ; G11B5/33 ; G11B5/39 ; H01F10/30 ; H01F10/32
摘要:
A magnetically-coupled structure has two ferromagnetic layers with their in-plane magnetization directions coupled orthogonally across an electrically-conducting spacer layer that induces the direct orthogonal magnetic coupling. The structure has application for in-stack biasing in a current-perpendicular-to-the-plane (CPP) magnetoresistive sensor. One of the ferromagnetic layers of the structure is a biasing ferromagnetic layer and the other ferromagnetic layer is the sensor free layer. An antiferromagnetic layer exchange-couples the biasing layer to fix its moment parallel to the moment of the sensor pinned layer. This allows a single annealing step to be used to set the magnetization direction of the biasing and pinned layers. The electrically-conducting spacer layer, the biasing layer and the antiferromagnetic layer that exchange-couples the biasing layer may all extend beyond the edges of the sensor stack.