Design, fabrication, and wafer level testing of (NiFe/Cu)xn dual stripe GMR sensors

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 33, Issue 5 PART 1, 1997, Pages 2905-2907

  Freitas, Paulo P ^a   Caldeira, Maria C ^b   Reissner, Markus ^c   Almeida, Bernardo G ^d   Sousa, Joao B ^e   Kung, Harriet ^f  

^a INESC   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^e Siemens Portugal   (Portugal)

^f SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MAGNETORESISTANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METALLIC SUPERLATTICES; NICKEL ALLOYS; SENSORS;

DUAL STRIPE MAGNETORESISTIVE RECORDING (DSMR) HEADS; GIANT MONOPOLE RESONANCE (GMR);

MAGNETIC HEADS;

EID: 0031224536     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.617793     Document Type: Article

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