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US 6,583,971 B1Granted
Elimination of electric-pop noise in MR/GMR device
AssigneeSAE Magnetics (H.K.) Ltd.
InventorsYong Shen, Kwok Kam Leung, Hiroshi Kiyono, Tetsuo Miyazaki
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Abstract
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 insulating gap layer between said AMR/GMR and said top shield; and conductive layer contacting electrically both said AMR.GMR device to siaid bottom shield. Furthermore, similar active devices free of electric-pop noise also be disclosed.
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A magnetic recording head, comprising:
- a magnetoresistive layer having a first end and a second end;
- a soft-adjacent magnetic transverse bias layer (SAL) having a first end and a second end;
- an insulating layer arranged between said magnetoresistive layer and said SAL;
- a first conductive layer physically contacting a top surface and said first end of said magnetoresistive layer and said first end of said SAL;
- a second conductive layer physically contacting a top surface and said second end of said magnetoresistive layer and said second end of said SAL;
- the magnetoresistive layer supporting a first current path between the first and second conductive layers;
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- the SAL supporting a second current path between the first and second conductive layers;
- wherein the second current path is substantially longer than the first current path.
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