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公开(公告)号:US11227627B1
公开(公告)日:2022-01-18
申请号:US16906480
申请日:2020-06-19
发明人: Suping Song , Zhanjie Li , Terence Lam , Changqing Shi , Lijie Guan
摘要: The present disclosure generally relates to a magnetic media drive employing a magnetic recording head. The magnetic recording head comprises a main pole, an EAMR stack disposed on the main pole, and a trailing shield disposed on the EAMR stack. The EAMR stack comprises a seed layer disposed on the main pole, a spin torque layer disposed on the seed layer, and a spacer layer disposed on the spin torque layer. At least one surface of the spacer layer in contact with the spin torque layer has a smaller or reduced area than the spin torque layer. The at least one surface of the spacer layer in contact with the spin torque layer is recessed from a media facing surface and has a smaller cross-track width than the spin torque layer and a smaller width in the stripe height direction than the spin torque layer.
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公开(公告)号:US11205446B1
公开(公告)日:2021-12-21
申请号:US16803958
申请日:2020-02-27
发明人: Zhanjie Li , Suping Song , Kuok San Ho
摘要: The present disclosure generally relates to magnetic media devices, and more specifically, to a magnetic media drive employing a magnetic recording head. The recording head includes a main pole, a trailing shield hot seed layer, a spin Hall layer disposed between the main pole and the trailing shield hot seed layer, and a spin-torque layer disposed between the main pole and the trailing shield hot seed layer. Spin-orbit torque (SOT) is generated from the spin Hall layer. The spin-torque layer magnetization switching or precession is induced by the SOT. The SOT based head reduces the switching current and the Vjump due to higher spin polarization ratio, which improves energy efficiency. In addition, the spin Hall layer and the spin-torque layer are easier to form compared to the conventional pseudo spin-valve structure.
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公开(公告)号:US10699734B2
公开(公告)日:2020-06-30
申请号:US16277947
申请日:2019-02-15
发明人: Zhigang Bai , Alexander Taratorin , Anna Zheng , Venkatesh Chembrolu , Supradeep Narayana , Suping Song , Yaguang Wei , Terence Lam , Michael Kuok San Ho , Changqing Shi , Lijie Guan
摘要: A magnetic recording write head has an electrically-conductive structure in the write gap between the write pole and the trailing shield and electrical circuitry for directing current through the write gap. The current through the electrically-conductive structure generates a circular Ampere field which, at the disk-facing end of the write pole, is substantially parallel to the disk-facing end of the write pole. The electrically-conductive structure in the write gap may be a STO or an electrically-conductive layer that is not part of a STO. The current direction through the electrically-conductive structure in the write gap is selected so that the generated Ampere field at the write pole end is in substantially the same direction as the magnetization direction of the write head side shields, which has been discovered to result in minimization of cross-track interference.
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公开(公告)号:US10157632B1
公开(公告)日:2018-12-18
申请号:US15631932
申请日:2017-06-23
发明人: Suping Song , Zhanjie Li , Michael Kuok San Ho , Quang Le , Alexander M. Zeltser
摘要: The present disclosure generally relates to data storage devices, and more specifically, to a magnetic media drive employing a magnetic recording head. The head includes a main pole, a heavy metal structure surrounding at least a portion of the main pole at a media facing surface (MFS), and two magnetic structures sandwiching the heavy metal structure. Spin-orbit torque (SOT) is generated from the heavy metal structure, inducing magnetization switching (or precession) in the magnetic structures. The SOT reduces the magnetic flux shunting from the main pole to the trailing shield, and the magnetization switching sharpens the write field profile in the cross-track direction. The SOT based head with the magnetic structures sandwiching the heavy metal structure increases both track density (tracks per inch) and linear density (bit per inch), which in turn increases the areal density capability (ADC), which is the product of tracks per inch and bit per inch.
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公开(公告)号:US09953675B2
公开(公告)日:2018-04-24
申请号:US15727953
申请日:2017-10-09
IPC分类号: G11B5/60
CPC分类号: G11B5/60 , G11B5/1278 , G11B5/23 , G11B5/3116 , G11B5/315
摘要: A system, according to one embodiment, includes: a main pole; and a trailing shield. A first distance D1 is defined in a track direction between the trailing shield and a pole tip region of the main pole; and a second distance D2 is defined in the track direction between the trailing shield and a second region of the main pole located behind the pole tip region, where D2 is greater than D1. Other systems, and methods are described in additional embodiments.
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公开(公告)号:US11373675B2
公开(公告)日:2022-06-28
申请号:US17141068
申请日:2021-01-04
发明人: Zhigang Bai , Anna Zheng , Venkatesh Chembrolu , Supradeep Narayana , Yaguang Wei , Suping Song , Terence Lam , Michael Kuok San Ho , Changqing Shi , Lijie Guan , Jian-Gang Zhu
摘要: A magnetic head includes a main pole configured to serve as a first electrode, an upper pole containing a trailing magnetic shield configured to a serve as a second electrode, and an electrically conductive portion located in a trailing gap between the main pole and the trailing magnetic shield. The electrically conductive portion is not part of a spin torque oscillator stack, and the electrically conductive portion includes at least one electrically conductive, non-magnetic material layer. The main pole and the trailing magnetic shield are electrically shorted by the electrically conductive portion across the trailing gap between the main pole and the trailing magnetic shield such that an electrically conductive path is present between the main pole and the trailing magnetic shield through the electrically conductive portion.
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公开(公告)号:US11087783B1
公开(公告)日:2021-08-10
申请号:US16917521
申请日:2020-06-30
发明人: Suping Song , Terence Lam , Changqing Shi , Lijie Guan
摘要: The present disclosure is generally related to a magnetic media drive employing a magnetic recording head. The magnetic recording head comprises a main pole extending to a media facing surface (MFS). The main pole has a gradually increasing cross-section area with a low aspect ratio from the MFS to a surface recessed from and parallel to the MFS. The main pole comprises a first leading edge taper angle (LETA), a second LETA less than the first LETA, a first trailing edge taper angle (TETA), and a second TETA less than the first TETA. The main pole further comprises a first flare recessed a first distance from the MFS, the first flare having a first angle, and a second flare recessed a second distance from the MFS greater than the first distance, the second flare having a second angle greater than the first angle.
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公开(公告)号:US10997988B1
公开(公告)日:2021-05-04
申请号:US16015163
申请日:2018-06-21
摘要: The present disclosure generally relates to data storage devices, and more specifically, to a magnetic media drive employing a magnetic recording head. The head includes a trailing shield, a main pole, an STO disposed between the trailing shield and the main pole, and a non-magnetic conductive structure (or non-magnetic conductive layers) adjacent to the main pole and in contact with the STO. The non-magnetic conductive structure provides additional paths for electrical currents to flow to the STO. The non-magnetic conductive structure enables higher current density to the STO without creating hot spots at the MFS. Maximum current efficiency and uniformity can be achieved with the non-magnetic conductive structure.
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公开(公告)号:US10957346B2
公开(公告)日:2021-03-23
申请号:US16833650
申请日:2020-03-29
发明人: Gonçalo Marcos Baião De Albuquerque , Yunfei Ding , Alexander Goncharov , Kuok San Ho , Daniele Mauri , Goran Mihajlovic , Suping Song , Petrus Antonius Van Der Heijden
IPC分类号: G11B11/105 , G11B5/127 , G11B5/31 , G11B5/60 , G11B5/11 , G11B5/39 , G11B5/455 , G11B5/02 , G11B5/00
摘要: Disclosed herein are magnetic recording devices and methods of using them. A magnetic recording device comprises a main pole extending to an air-bearing surface (ABS), a trailing shield extending to the ABS, a write-field-enhancing structure disposed between and coupled to the main pole and the trailing shield at the ABS, a write coil configured to magnetize the main pole, a write current control circuit coupled to the write coil and configured to apply a write current to the write coil, wherein the write current comprises a write pulse, and a bias current control circuit coupled to the write-field-enhancing structure and configured to apply a bias current to the write-field-enhancing structure, wherein the bias current comprises a driving pulse offset in time from the write pulse by a delay, wherein the delay substantially coincides with an expected magnetization switch-time lag of a free layer of the write-field-enhancing structure.
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公开(公告)号:US10885933B2
公开(公告)日:2021-01-05
申请号:US16451744
申请日:2019-06-25
发明人: Zhanjie Li , Suping Song , Michael Kuok San Ho
摘要: A magnetic recording device includes a main pole, a coil around the main pole, a trailing shield, and a spin torque oscillation device between the main pole and the trailing shield. The spin torque oscillation device includes one or more first layers, a spacer layer, and a field generation layer. The one or more first layers are over the main pole. The one or more first layers have a first heat conductance or include a low-heat-conductance material. The spacer layer is over the one or more first layers. The field generation layer is over the spacer layer. A heat sink is in contact with the trailing shield. The heat sink has a second heat conductance or includes a high-heat-conductance material. The second heat conductance of the heat sink is higher than the first heat conductance of the one or more first layers.
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