Magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus with thin-film magnetic head having microwave magnetic exciting function

MAGNETIC HEAD AND MAGNETIC DISK UNIT

Read sensors and methods of making same with back-edge milling and refilling

Current perpendicular to plane magnetoresistive sensor employing half metal alloys for improved sensor performance

Magnetoresistance effect element, magnetic head and magnetic recording and/or reproducing system

Ultra low RA (resistance x area) sensors having a multilayer non-magnetic spacer between pinned and free layers

Current-perpendicular-to-the-plane (CPP) magnetoresistive sensor with antiparallel-free layer structure and low current-induced noise

Magnetic head and manufacturing method thereof

Scissoring-type current-perpendicular-to-the-plane giant magnetoresistance (CPP-GMR) sensors with damped free layer structures

Binary output reader structure (BORS) with high utilization rate

Method for manufacturing a tunnel junction magnetoresistive sensor with improved performance and having a CoFeB free layer

Magnetoresistive effect element and thin-film magnetic head with the magnetoresistive effect element

Composite thin-film magnetic head with non-magnetic conductive layer electrically connected with lower pole layer to increase counter electrode area

Optical head for near-field recording and reproducing device

CPP-type magneto resistance element having a pair of free layers and spacer layer sandwiched therebetween

MAGNETO RESISTANCE EFFECT DEVICE, HEAD SLIDER, MAGNETIC INFORMATION STORAGE APPARATUS, AND MAGNETO RESISTANCE EFFECT MEMORY

Magnetic recording and reproducing device including a differential read head

Magnetoresistive device of the CPP type, utilizing insulating layers interposed in shield layers to form a closed magnetic path usable in a disk system

Patterned MR device with controlled shape anisotropy

Magnetoresistive device of the CPP type, and magnetic disk system

Magnetoresistive element and method of manufacturing the same

Magnetoresistive element and method of manufacturing the same

Magnetic sensor including a free layer having perpendicular to the plane anisotropy

Method of using spin injection device

Magneto-resistive effect device of the CPP type, and magnetic disk system

CPP-TYPE MAGNETO RESISTIVE EFFECT ELEMENT HAVING A PAIR OF MAGNETIC LAYERS

Dedicated noncorrosive smear detector

Current-perpendicular-to-plane (CPP) read sensor with multiple reference layers

Magneto-resistive effect element, magnetic head, and magnetic recording/reading apparatus

Method of repairing the deterioration of magneto-resistive effect device

ENHANCED CPP READ SENSORS WITH LATERAL SPIN TRANSPORT

Dynamic hard magnet thickness adjustment for reduced variation in free layer stabilization field in a magnetoresistive sensor

Magnetoresistive effect element and manufacturing method thereof

CURRENT-PERPENDICULAR-TO-PLANE READ SENSOR WITH AMORPHOUS FERROMAGNETIC AND POLYCRYSTALLINE NONMAGNETIC SEED LAYERS

Tunnel junction magnetoresistive sensor having a near zero magnetostriction free layer

CPP sensors with hard bias structures that shunt sense current towards a shield

Method for making a scissoring-type current-perpendicular-to-the-plane (CPP) magnetoresistive sensor

Perpendicular magnetic recording head, magnetic head, and magnetic disk device mounted with these heads

CURRENT-PERPENDICULAR-TO-THE-PLANE STRUCTURE MAGNETORESISTIVE ELEMENT AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME AND STORAGE APPARATUS

Magneto-resistive effect device of CPP type having shield layers coupled with ferromagnetic layers

Magneto-resistive element for a magneto-resistive device and method of manufacturing thereof

READ-HEAD, MAGNETIC HEAD AND MAGNETIC STORAGE APPARATUS

TMR device with low magnetostriction free layer

Magnetoresistance effect element with a layer containing an oxide as a principal component and containing a magnetic transition metal element which does not bond to oxygen

Magnetic field detecting element including tri-layer stack with stepped portion

CPP GMR device with ferromagnetic layer split in depth direction

Method for manufacturing a magnetoresistive-effect device

Magnetic thin film, and magnetoresistance effect device and magnetic device using the same

CPP device with a plurality of metal oxide templates in a confining current path (CCP) spacer

Current perpendicular to plane magnetoresistive sensor with reduced read gap

Signal reproducing method, magnetic head and magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus

Current perpendicular to plane GMR and TMR sensors with improved magnetic properties using Ru/Si seed layers

Method of fabricating a magnetic head

Magnetoresistive element including layered film touching periphery of spacer layer

Method and apparatus for manufacturing magnetoresistive element

Magnetoresistive element including insulating film touching periphery of spacer layer

CPP-type magnetoresistance effect element having a pair of free layers

CPP device with improved current confining structure and process

Magnetoresistive element having spacer layer that includes two layered regions composed of oxide semiconductor and nonmagnetic conductor phase sandwiched therebetween

Method of manufacturing a magneto-resistive device

Differential magnetoresistive magnetic head

Magnetoresistance effect element having resistance adjusting layer and thin-film insertion layer

Thin-film magnetic head comprising shield/magnetic-pole layer having surface without right nor sharp angle

Magnetic head having CPP sensor with improved stabilization of the magnetization of the pinned magnetic layer

Magnetoresistance effect element, magnetic head and magnetic recording and/or reproducing system

Core Composite Film for a Magnetic/Nonmagnetic/Magnetic Multilayer Thin Film and Its Useage

Method to control mask profile for read sensor definition

Magneto-resistive effect device and magnetic disk system with refilled insulation layer in contact with a read end face of a cap layer

Magnetic head and method of manufacturing the magnetic head

Magnetic recording and reading device

Tunneling magnetic sensing element having two-layered hard bias layer

Magnetoresistive element, method of manufacturing the same, and magnetic multilayered film manufacturing apparatus

CPP device with an enhanced dR/R ratio

Magnetic detection element and manufacturing method thereof

TMR sensor having an under-layer treated with nitrogen for increased magnetoresistance

Process for composite free layer in CPP GMR or TMR device

ESD, cross talk and noise minimizing resistive/capacitative shunt for CPP and TMR devices

Method for removing smear and magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus with function of removing smear

Magneto-resistance effect element, and method for manufacturing the same

Magneto-resistance effect element, magnetic head, magnetic recording/reproducing device and method for manufacturing a magneto-resistance effect element

Magneto-resistance effect element, magnetic head, and magnetic recording/reproducing device

Thin film magnetic head having thermal expansion layer for suppressing thermal protrusion

Read sensor with a uniform longitudinal bias stack

CPP-type magnetoresistive element having spacer layer that includes semiconductor layer

Method of manufacturing a magnetic sensor with tilted magnetoresistive structures

Methods of fabricating magnetoresistance sensors pinned by an etch induced magnetic anisotropy

Thin film magnetic head having a bias magnetic layer provided with antiferromagnetic layer and a pinned layer provided with hard magnetic layer

Magnetoresistive device, magnetic head, magnetic storage apparatus, and magnetic memory

Magnetic thin film having non-magnetic spacer layer that is provided with SnOlayer

Magnetic head using a synthetic ferri free structure

CPP magnetic recording head with self-stabilizing vortex configuration

Magnetic tunnel transistor with high magnetocurrent

Magnetic thin film and magnetoresistance effect element

CPP type magneto-resistive effect device having a semiconductor oxide spacer layer and magnetic disk system

Magnetic head slider using giant magnetostrictive material

Magneto-resistive effect device and magnetic disk system

Enhanced data storage and retrieval devices and systems and methods for utilizing the same

Magnetoresistance effect element, and magnetic head and magnetic recording and/or reproducing system utilizing the magnetoresistance element

Grounded writer core

Method for fabricating a three terminal magnetic sensor for magnetic heads with a semiconductor junction

SPIN-VALVE ELEMENT HAVING FIXED LAYER CONTAINING NANO-OXIDE LAYER

CPP Magnetoresistive head with different thickness free layers for improved signal to noise ratio

MAGNETIC HEAD AND MAGNETIC DISK APPARATUS

Magnetoresistive effect thin-film magnetic head with anti-ferromagnetic layer for magnetic domain control

Magnetic sensor and manufacturing method therefor

METHOD FOR FORMING THIN FILM HEADS USING A BI-LAYER ANTI-REFLECTION COATING FOR PHOTOLITHOGRAPHIC APPLICATIONS AND A DEVICE THEREOF

METHODS FOR FORMING A READ SENSOR

Magnetoresistive element, magnetic head, and magnetic recording apparatus

Superparamagnetic platelets field sensing devices

Enhanced hard bias in thin film magnetoresistive sensors with perpendicular easy axis growth of hard bias and strong shield-hard bias coupling

Method and apparatus for oxidizing conductive redeposition in TMR sensors

Current-confined-path type magnetoresistive element and method of manufacturing same

Magnetic sensor with extended free layer and overlaid leads

Seed/AFM combination for CCP GMR device

ANTI-PARALLEL TAB SENSOR FABRICATION

CURRENT-PERPENDICULAR-TO-PLANE MAGNETORESISTANCE EFFECT DEVICE WITH DOUBLE CURRENT DOUBLE LAYERS

Current-perpendicular-to-plane magnetoresistance effect device with double current control layers

Magneto-resistive magnetic read head and storage apparatus using the same magnetic read head

CPP magneto-resistive effect device utilizing an anti-oxidizing layer as part of the spacer layer in a thin-film magnetic head usable in a head gimbal assembly in a hard disk system

MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, MAGNETIC RECORDING APPARATUS AND MAGNETIC RECORDING METHOD

Magnetoresistive sensor having shape enhanced pinning, a flux guide structure and damage free virtual edges

PATTERN TRANSFER WITH SELF-SIMILAR SACRIFICIAL MASK LAYER AND VECTOR MAGNETIC FIELD SENSOR

Magnetoresistance effect element, magnetic head and magnetic recording and/or reproducing system

MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THIN-FILM MAGNETIC HEAD AND THIN-FILM MAGNETIC HEAD

Magnetoresistance element magnetic random access memory, magnetic head and magnetic storage device

Magnetoresistive effect element with resistance adjustment layer of semimetal, magnetic head and magnetic reproducing apparatus

Magnetic disk apparatus

Magnetoresistive element having free layer, pinned layer, and spacer layer disposed therebetween, the spacer layer including semiconductor layer

Magnetoresistive sensor having shape enhanced pinning and low lead resistance

Current perpendicular to plane magnetoresistive head having suppressed spin torque noise

Magnetoresistive-effect device with a multi-layer magnetoresistive-effect film

Pedestals for use as part of magnetic read heads

Magnetic resistive head and magnetic recording apparatus

Method of using xenon ion beams to improve track width definition

Process to manufacture CPP GMR read head

Process to manufacture magnetic tunnel junction read head

Method and apparatus for providing a magnetic read sensor having a thin pinning layer and improved magnetoreistive coefficient

Magnetoresistive effect element, thin-film magnetic head, method for manufacturing magnetoresistive effect element, and method for manufacturing thin-film magnetic head

Method of manufacturing a thin-film magnetic head

Methods for defining the track width of magnetic head having a flat sensor profile

Magnetic head

Method to reduce corner shunting during fabrication of CPP read heads

Elimination of electric-pop noise in MR/GMR device

Thin-film magnetic head with shield layer profile having obtuse or rounded corners, magnetic head assembly, magnetic disk drive apparatus and manufacturing method of thin-film magnetic head

Magnetoresistance effect element, its manufacturing method, magnetic reproducing element and magnetic memory

Magnetoresistive effect element, magnetic head, magnetic reproducing apparatus, and manufacturing method thereof

Method and apparatus for slew rate control in the write current shape of a hard disk drive

Method for providing a self-pinned differential GMR sensor having a bias structure comprising layers of ferromagnetic and non-magnetic material selected to provide a net-zero magnetic moment

Magneto-resistive effect element magnetic disk device having magneto-resistive effect film and method of forming a CPP-type magneto-resistive effect element having a soft magnetic layer composed of columnar crystal

Magnetoresistive element, magnetic head, magnetic recording apparatus, and magnetic memory

Magnetic head with stabilized ferromagnetic shield

Current-perpendicular-to-plane magnetic head and magnetic disk apparatus using the same

Magnetoresistive effect element and a thin film magnetic head

Magnetoresistive element with a Heusler alloy layer that has a region in which an additive element changes in concentration

Multilayered film having crystal grains grown at an inclination to a substrate, and magnetoresistive head using the film

Method of fabricating a magnetic sensor on a wafer

Process for the fabrication of multilayer thin film magnetoresistive sensors

GMR sensor having an under-layer treated with nitrogen for increased magnetoresistance

Read sensors of the CPP type having nitrogenated hard bias layers and method of making the same

Magnetic recording element including a thin film layer with changeable magnetization direction

Current-perpendicular-to-the-plane (CPP) magnetoresistive sensor with antiparallel-free layer structure and low current-induced noise

Magnetic reading head with first and second element units each including a ferromagnetic layer and each with a different spin-polarization

Thin film magnetic head having an angled insulating film

GMR sensor having a capping layer treated with nitrogen for increased magnetoresistance

Method of manufacturing a magnetoresistive element

Methods of manipulating the relaxation rate in magnetic materials and devices for using the same

Magnetoresistive (MR) element having a continuous flux guide defined by the free layer

Magnetoresistive element including heusler alloy layer

Magnetoresistive element, magnetic head, and magnetic reproducing apparatus

Method and apparatus for providing magnetostriction control in a freelayer of a magnetic memory device

Current perpendicular to plane (CPP) magnetoresistive sensor with free layer biasing by exchange pinning at back edge

Magnetoresistive effect device and method of manufacturing ferromagnetic structure

Read sensor stabilized by bidirectional anisotropy

Method of manufacturing thin-film magnetic head

Method for forming a resist pattern of magnetic device by etching with a gas cluster ion beam

Spin valve with Ir-Mn-Cr pinning layer and seed layer including Pt-Mn

CPP giant magnetoresistive element with particular bulk scattering coefficient

Method of manufacturing a magneto-resistive device

Method for manufacturing magnetoresistance effect element

Self-pinned spin valve sensor having its first AP pinned layer thicker than its second AP pinned layer to reduce the likelihood of amplitude flip

Method and apparatus for providing improved pinning structure for tunneling magnetoresistive sensor

Current-perpendicular-to-the-plane (CPP) magnetoresistive sensor with high-resistivity amorphous ferromagnetic layers

Methods and apparatus for improved read sensors of the CPP type using a multi-layered seed layer structure having a nitrogenated nickel-tantalum layer

Magnetoresistive effect element, magnetic head and magnetic reproducing apparatus

Side reading reduced GMR for high track density

Side reading reduced GMR for high track density

Method for creating write element having high magnetic moment Co-Fe-O-N film with soft magnetic properties

GMR head design that suppresses tribocharge during its assembly

GMR head design that suppresses tribocharge during its assembly

GMR head design that suppresses tribocharge during its assembly

GMR and MR enhancing seedlayers for self pinned spin valves

Method of manufacturing a thin-film magnetic head with a magnetoresistive effect element

Magnetic head device provided with lead electrode electrically connected to upper shield layer and lower shield layer

MAGNETIC HEAD DEVICE PROVIDED WITH LEAD ELECTRODE ELECTRICALLY CONNECTED TO UPPER SHIELD LAYER AND LOWER SHIELD LAYER

Magnetic recording and reading device

Magnetic head with improved CPP sensor using Heusler alloys

Oblique angle etched underlayers for improved exchange biased structures in a magnetoresitive sensor

Thin-film magnetic head, head gimbal assembly, head arm assembly and magnetic disk drive

Thin-film magnetic head, head gimbal assembly, and hard disk drive

Magnetoresistive device having specular sidewall layers

Method for manufacturing magnetoresistive element

CPP-GMR magnetic head having GMR-screen layer

CPP magnetoresistive sensor having a reduced, shield defined track width

Magneto-resistive element having a cap layer for canceling spin injection effect

Spin valves using organic spacers and spin-organic light-emitting structures using ferromagnetic electrodes

Method of manufacturing a spin-valve giant magnetoresistive head

Magnetoresistive sensor having an improved pinning structure

Magneto-resistance element and thin film magnetic head with improved heat reliability

Method for fabricating a magnetic head

Narrow track CPP head with bias cancellation

Process to manufacture narrow track CPP head with bias cancellation

Magnetoresistive sensor having a shape enhanced pinned layer

Composed free layer for stabilizing magnetoresistive head having low magnetostriction

Magnetic apparatus with perpendicular recording medium and head having multilayered reproducing element using tunneling effect

Magnetic head, fabrication process of magnetic head, and magnetic disk storage apparatus mounting magnetic head

Magnetoresistive sensor having an in stack bias structure with NiFeCr spacer layer for improved bias layer pinning

Magnetoresistive device, thin film magnetic head, head gimbal assembly, head arm assembly, magnetic disk apparatus, synthetic antiferromagnetic magnetization pinned layer, magnetic memory cell, and current sensor

Magnetoresistive sensor with in-stack bias layer pinned at the back edge of the sensor stripe

Magnetic tunnel transistor with high magnetocurrent and stronger pinning

Magnetic head slider testing apparatus and magnetic head slider testing method

Giant magnetoresistance sensor with side longitudinal bias stacks and method for forming same

Magnetic head including read head element and inductive write head element

Method to increase CCP-CPP GMR output by thermoelectric cooling

Composite free layer for stabilizing magnetoresistive head

Exchange-coupled free layer with out-of-plane magnetization

Magnetic sensing element having reactive-ion-etching stop layer and process for producing same

MAGNETIC SENSING ELEMENT INCLUDING FREE LAYER CONTAINING HALF-METAL

Magnetic recording disk drive having read head with high cross-track resolution and disk with low bit-aspect-ratio

Fabrication method for thin film magnetic heads

Magnetoresistive head

Method for manufacturing a magnetic sensor having an ultra-narrow track width

Manufacturing method of a magnetic sensor

Magnetic field sensor provided with an upper shield layer having portions with different magnetostriction

Current-in-plane differential magnetic tri-layer sensor

Magnetoresistance element with improved magentoresistance change amount and with free layer having improved soft magnetic characteristics

Magnetoresistive structures and fabrication methods

Current in plane magnetoresistive sensor having a contiguous hard bias layer located at back edge of stripe height

Suppression of spin momentum transfer and related torques in magnetoresistive elements

Corrosion inhibitors and methods for magnetic media and magnetic head read-write device

Method and apparatus for setting a sensor AFM with a superconducting magnet

CPP-GMR read head sensor with synthetic free layer providing suppression of spin torque noise

Magnetic sensor using a magnetic oscillation element

Magnetic disk apparatus

Method for manufacturing a magnetic read sensor employing oblique etched underlayers for inducing uniaxial magnetic anisotropy in a hard magnetic pinning layer

Method for manufacturing a magnetic read sensor employing oblique etched underlayers for inducing uniaxial magnetic anisotropy in hard magnetic bias layers

Method for manufacturing a magnetic read sensor employing oblique etched underlayers for inducing uniaxial magnetic anisotropy in a hard magnetic in-stack bias layer

Exchange coupling film and magnetoresistive element using the same

Magnetic sensing element containing quaternary Heusler alloy CoMn (GeSn) which constitutes a free magnetic layer or pinned magnetic layer

Method to improve ability to perform CMP-assisted liftoff for trackwidth definition

Magnetoresistive effect element having inner and outer pinned layers including a cobalt iron alloy

Method for protecting a slider mounted CPP GMR or TMR read head sensor from noise and ESD damage

Method for making a magnetoresistive read head having a pinned layer width greater than the free layer stripe height

Method of forming a hard bias structure in a magnetic head

GMR sensors with strongly pinning and pinned layers

Magnetoresistive film with pinning layer interposed between pinned layer and soft magnetic nickel iron alloy layer

Read sensor with a uniform longitudinal bias stack

Magnetoresistance effect element, having a nonmagnetic intermediate layer having a two-dimensional fluctuation of resistance

Composite thin-film magnetic head with non-magnetic conductive layer to balance parasitic capacitances

MR sensor and thin film media having alloyed Ru antiparallel spacer layer for enhanced antiparallel exchange coupling

Magnetic sensor with tilted magnetoresistive structures

Method to control mask profile for read sensor definition

Ta based bilayer seed for IrMn CPP spin valve

Exchange bias structure for abutted junction GMR sensor

Magnetoresistance effect element, magnetic head and magnetic recording and/or reproducing system

GMR sensor having layers treated with nitrogen for increased magnetoresistance

Method of manufacturing a thin film magnetic head

CPP magneto-resistive element, method of manufacturing CPP magneto-resistive element, magnetic head, and magnetic memory apparatus

CPP magneto resistive head with decreased variation in asymmetry and output

Method for manufacturing magnetic head device

Planar servo format verifier head

CPP-type giant manetoresistance effect element and magnetic component and magnetic device using it

Superparamagnetic field sensing device

Composite hard bias design with a soft magnetic underlayer for sensor applications

Composite hard bias design with a soft magnetic underlayer for sensor applications

Magnetoresistance device and method of fabrication using titanium nitride as capping layer

Magnetic heads and semiconductor devices and surface planarization processes for the fabrication thereof

Magnetic head and method of making the same using an etch-stop layer for removing portions of the capping layer

Method of manufacturing a device with a magnetic layer-structure

Magnetoresistive head and perpendicular magnetic recording-reproducing apparatus

Method for producing a spin valve transistor with stabilization

Magnetoresistive sensor

Magnetic head having an antistripping layer for preventing a magnetic layer from stripping

Read/write head apparatus and method

Structure and process for composite free layer in CPP GMR device

Granular type free layer and magnetic head

Magnetoresistive element and magnetoresistive device having a free layer stabilized by an in-stack bias

Conductive stud for magnetic recording devices and method of making the same

Disk drive write head for writing cross-track magnetizations

Magnetic recording disk drive with data written and read as cross-track magnetizations

CPP-type magnetic head with less deformation and a magnetic recording/reproducing system using the same

Magnetic head having a magnetoresistive element and highly polarized spin injection layer

Narrow track read sensor

Exchange coupling film and magnetoresistive element using the same

Magnetic head having layered film with tilted crystalline grain structure

Exchange-coupled film including pinned magnetic layer composed of a plurality of cobalt-iron alloys having different compositions disposed on antiferromagnetic layer, and magnetic sensing element

Methods of making a current-perpendicular-to-the-planes (CPP) type sensor by ion milling to the spacer layer using a mask without undercuts

CPP sensor having hard bias stabilization placed at back edge of the stripe

Thin-film magnetic head, head gimbal assembly and hard disk system

Magnetoresistive effect element, and magnetic head and magnetic reproducing apparatus including the same

Magnetoresistive effect element, and magnetic head and magnetic reproducing apparatus including the same