Seagate Technology Incorporated

Frances Paula McElhinney

Marcus Winston Ormston

Jiansheng Xu

Xin Cao

A magnetoresistive (MR) sensor shield shields against both down track and cross-track interference and is formed in a single deposition step. A 'tail' portion of the shield is eliminated by including a non-magnetic material adjacent to opposite sides of a middle portion of the sensor stack.

Manufacturing method for reader side shield

A magnetoresistive (MR) sensor shield shields against both down track and cross-track interference. The shield can be formed in a single deposition step. In one implementation of the disclosed technology, a 'tail' portion of the shield is eliminated by including a non-magnetic material adjacent to opposite sides of a middle portion of the sensor stack.

Reader side shield

A data reader can be configured with at least a magnetically responsive lamination that has a first portion with a first stripe height from an air bearing surface (ABS) and a second portion with a different second stripe height from the ABS. The first portion can be constructed to have a back edge surface shaped at a predetermined angle relative to the ABS by a back edge feature.

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Derry, United Kingdom

Frances Paula McElhinney