Fabrication and electric properties of lapped type of TMR heads for ∼50 Gb/in2 and beyond

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 38, Issue 1 I, 2002, Pages 72-77

  Araki, Satoru ^a,b   Sato, Kazuki ^b   Kagami, Takeo ^b   Saruki, Syunji ^b   Uesugi, Takumi ^b   Kasahara, Noriaki ^b   Kuwashima, Tetsuya ^b   Ohta, Naoki ^b   Sun, Jijun ^b   Nagai, Kentaro ^b   Li, Shuxiang ^b   Hachisuka, Nozomu ^b   Hatate, Hitoshi ^b   Kagotani, Tsuneo ^b   Takahashi, Norio ^b   Ueda, Kunihiro ^b   Matsuzaki, Mikio ^b  

^a IEEE   (Japan)

^b TDK CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

CPP geometry; Electric properties; Magnetic tunnel junction; Shot noise; TMR head; Tunnel GMR

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; GIANT MAGNETORESISTANCE; MAGNETIC RECORDING; SHOT NOISE;

TUNNEL GIANT MAGNETORESISTANCE (TMR);

MAGNETIC HEADS;

EID: 18344378046     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2002.988914     Document Type: Article

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