Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.v.

Charanjit S Bhatia

Cherngye Hwang

Jila Tabib

Eric Wayne Flint

Yongjian Sun

Nobuto Yasui

Eduardo Torres Mireles

Yoshiki Midori

A hard disk drive slider comprises an overcoat layer, which covers an air-bearing surface of the slider. The overcoat covers an exposed surface of a tunneling magnetoresistance transducer. An adhesion layer is coupled with the overcoat layer and the air-bearing surface. The adhesion layer comprises a compound of nitrogen. The compound of nitrogen reduces noise in read data from the tunneling magnetoresistance transducer.

Slider overcoat for noise reduction of TMR magnetic transducer

A fly height control apparatus for supporting a magnetic recording transducer comprises a trifurcated slider. A piezoelectric transducer is coupled to a surface of the central trifurcation of the trifurcated slider. The surface is opposite and parallel to an air bearing surface of the trifurcated slider. An electrical coupling means couples the piezoelectric transducer to a suspension.

Fly height control apparatus and electrical coupling thereto for supporting a magnetic recording transducer

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Charanjit S Bhatia