Current-in-plane GMR trilayer head design for hard-disk drives: Characterization and extendibility

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 645-650

  Lamberton, Robert ^a   Seigler, Michael ^b   Pelhos, Kalman ^b   Zhou, Hua ^b   McCurry, Martin ^a   Ormston, Marcus ^a   Yi, Gary ^a   McClean, Gregor ^a   McLaughlin, Tom ^a   Kolbo, Paul ^b   Heininen, Olle ^b   Sapozhnikov, Victor ^b   Mao, Sining ^b  

^a Seagate Technology Recording Head Operations   (United Kingdom)

^b SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abutted junction (AJ); Areal density (AD); Micromagnetic modeling; Trilayer readback sensor

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; GIANT MAGNETORESISTANCE; HARD DISK STORAGE; PERMANENT MAGNETS; SENSORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ABUTTED JUNCTION (AJ); AREAL DENSITY (AD); MICROMAGNETIC MODELING; TRILAYER READBACK SENSORS;

MAGNETIC HEADS;

EID: 33846592368     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2006.888213     Document Type: Article

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