Spin-valve and tunnel-valve structures with in situ in-stack bias

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 38, Issue 5 I, 2002, Pages 2286-2288

  Childress, Jeffrey R ^a   Ho, Michael K ^a   Fontana, Robert E ^a   Carey, Matthew J ^a   Rice, Philip M ^a   Gurney, Bruce A ^a   Tsang, Ching H ^a  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic heads; Magnetic recording; Magnetoresistive devices; Tunneling

Indexed keywords

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC HEADS; MAGNETOSTATICS; MAGNETRON SPUTTERING;

BIAS COUPLING;

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 0036761990     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2002.802802     Document Type: Article

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