DUAL-ELEMENT GMR INDUCTIVE HEADS FOR GIGABITS DENSITY RECORDING USINGCOFE SPIN-VALVES/

Authors
YODA H IWASAKI H KOBAYASHI T TSUTAI A SAHASHI M
Citation
H. Yoda et al., DUAL-ELEMENT GMR INDUCTIVE HEADS FOR GIGABITS DENSITY RECORDING USINGCOFE SPIN-VALVES/, IEEE transactions on magnetics, 32(5), 1996, pp. 3363-3367
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic","Physics, Applied
Journal title
IEEE transactions on magnetics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00189464
Volume
32
Issue
5
Year of publication
1996
Part
1
Pages
3363 - 3367
Database
ISI
SICI code
0018-9464(1996)32:5<3363:DGIHFG>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
We have succeeded in designing, fabricating, and testing GMR/Inductive heads. 1 mu m trackwidth CoFe spin-valve read elements showed high se nsitivity even after head fabrication due to its good thermal stabilit y. About 1.5 mu m tackwidth a-CoZrNb write elements with Bs (Saturatio n flux density) of 1.35T fabricated by trench filling process showed h igh potential for Gbit density recording. As a result of the feasibili ty study, 18kTPI and 140kBPI are thought to be within the scope by com bining the dual element heads with low-noise media.