Anisotropy Control in Fabrication Process for NiMn Spin-Valve Dual Element Heads

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 34, Issue 4 PART 1, 1998, Pages 1411-1413

  Ishi, Tsutomu ^a   Suzuki, Tetsuhiro ^a   Ishiwata, Nobuyuki ^a   Nakada, Masafumi ^a   Yamada, Kazuhiko ^a   Shimabayashi, Kiyotaka ^a   Urai, Haruo ^a  

^a NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Magnetic anisotropy; Nimn antiferromagnet; Spin valve head; Thermal stability

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; COBALT COMPOUNDS; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIZATION; NICKEL ALLOYS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

SPIN VALVE DUAL ELEMENT HEADS;

MAGNETIC HEADS;

EID: 0032114923     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.706565     Document Type: Article

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