摘要:
A method of fabricating a bias structure of a magnetoresistive read head for a magnetoresistive sensor stack formed on a substrate includes forming an underlayer and forming a bias layer over the underlayer. The method further includes forming a dusting layer directly below at least one of the underlayer or the bias layer and between the bias layer and the magnetoresistive sensor stack. The dusting layer includes discontinuous, nano-sized islands.
摘要:
A method adjusts a flying-height distance between a magnetic write head and a magnetic medium. The method includes positioning the write head in a location spaced from the magnetic medium by the flying-height distance. The write head includes a magnetic yoke and a proximal region in proximity to the magnetic medium. The write head further includes a resistive heater and at least a portion of the resistive heater is within the magnetic yoke and is in proximity to the proximal region. The resistive heater is configured to heat the proximal region. The proximal region has a coefficient of thermal expansion. The proximal region is configured to expand and to contract in response to a temperature of the proximal region. The method further includes flowing an electric current through the resistive heater. The method further includes controlling the electric current to adjust the temperature of the proximal region to selectively expand and contract the proximal region and thereby control the flying-height distance. Controlling the electric current includes pulsing the electrical current and adjusting a time interval between pulses.
摘要:
A writer for high frequency, data storage heads. The writer includes a first magnetic pole upon which a write gap pedestal is formed with an upper pedestal layer of high moment material with a planar upper surface. An electrical coil is formed on the first magnetic pole. A write gap layer is deposited on the upper surface of the upper pedestal layer. The writer includes a second magnetic pole disposed above the first magnetic pole with a magnetic, flat, top pole layer. The second magnetic pole includes a bottom shaper fabricated from high moment material positioned between the coil and the top pole layer. An insulation insert separates the bottom shaper from the upper pedestal layer. The second magnetic pole includes a thin dielectric lamination layer that separates the top pole layer from the bottom shaper to disrupt the path of eddy current in the second magnetic pole.
摘要:
In one aspect, a laminated structure including a first plurality of layers containing primarily-iron FeCoN interleaved with a second plurality of layers containing primarily iron FeNi is disclosed. The structure has an easy axis of magnetization and a hard axis of magnetization, has a magnetic saturation of at least about twenty-three-thousand Gauss, and has a magnetic coercivity measured substantially along its hard axis of magnetization that is less than two Oersted. Additional elements can be added in minority concentrations to form primarily-iron FeCoN layers with increased resistivity. The laminated structure has applicability in various fields in which high saturation magnetization, magnetically soft materials are advantageous, particularly for inductive heads.
摘要:
An MR read transducer is provided which has a central region located between a pair of end regions. The central region and the pair of end regions extend along a width of the MR read transducer. An MR layer extends along the width of the MR read transducer and has an active layer portion located between a pair of passive layer portions, the active layer portion being located in the central region and each passive layer portion being located in a respective end region. A layer is located in the central region and magnetostatically coupled to the active layer portion of the MR layer for transversely biasing the MR layer. Each passive layer portion of the MR layer is permeable so that it is responsive to externally applied magnetic fields. The passive layer portions of the MR layer are the only permeable portions of the MR read transducer in the end regions of the MR read transducer, so a response by either passive layer of the MR layer to a magnetic signal will result in a supralinearly increased net response of the active portion of the MR layer to the same applied magnetic field signal. This arrangement increases the amplitude and the sharpness of the peak of a signal response of the MR read transducer to the field from a recorded transition.
摘要:
In a bi-layer lift-off process, the adhesion characteristics of a PMGI release layer are substantially improved by the use of ortho-hydroxy substituted 4-phenylazo compounds (azo dyes), a class of nonactinic dyes, as an adhesion promoter additive. These azo dyes, due to their chemical structure, exhibit selective binding to various metals by acting as a chelating ligand to the metal surface. Formulations of a specific azo dye, Sudan Orange G, at concentrations from 0.25 to 1.0 percent (by weight) in PMGI exhibits no loss of adhesion at prebake temperatures in the range of 120 to 160 degrees C.
摘要:
A magnetoresistive (MR) read transducer assembly having passive end regions separated by a central active region, and a method of fabricating it. Layers of a first biasing material and a nonmagnetic decoupling spacer material are deposited on a substrate, then covered by a mask only in the central region. By etching or ion milling, those parts of the layers not covered by the mask are removed to define a transverse biasing means in the central region and define the passive end regions. With the same mask remaining in place, a conductive material and exchange layer comprising a second biasing material are deposited over all regions. The mask is removed to define and provide conductor leads and longitudinal biasing means only in the end regions. MR material is thereafter deposited as a continuous thin film in direct contact with the central region containing the transverse biasing means and in direct contact with the end regions containing the longitudinal biasing means. This fabrication technique has no critical etching steps requiring stopping at or near a particular interface and the MR film provides a continuous platform for carrying current without butted junctions in the current path.
摘要:
A magnetoresistive (MR) sensor is center tapped to provide the difference signals for servo operation on data and sum signals for the data information. The center-tap of the MR sensor is made of a high resistivity material compared to the resistivity of the MR element itself such as tantalum, Nichrome and carbon. Processes which can be used to produce the high resistivity center-tap conductor include an insulator layer to define both the track width and the center-tap conductor and a sequence which first patterns the MR sensor and then masks to define the conductor regions.
摘要:
A magnetoresistive (MR) read transducer comprising an MR layer having passive end regions separated by a central active region. A longitudinal bias is produced by a thin film of hard magnetic material in the end regions only, and the thin film of hard magnetic material is spaced from the MR layer by a nonmagnetic spacer layer so that a magnetostatic longitudinal bias is produced of a level to maintain the passive end regions of the MR layer in a stable state.
摘要:
A method is provided for fabricating a read element with leads that overlay a top surface of a sensor of the read element. The method includes forming a mask over a sensor layer, then using the mask to define the sensor from the sensor layer. The mask is then narrowed and a lead layer is formed that overlays both ends of the top surface of the sensor without covering a center portion of the top surface.