Seagate Technology Incorporated

Jiexuan He

Kaizhong Gao

Dimitar Velikov Dimitrov

Mark William Covington

Jason Bryce Gadbois

Dian Song

Jiaoming Qiu

Scott Wilson Stokes

Various embodiments can be generally directed to a magnetoresistive stack with a first stripe height and a biasing magnet positioned adjacent the magnetoresistive stack. The biasing magnet can have a second stripe height that is less than the first stripe height. The first and second stripe heights may correspond to a minimum signal to noise ratio in the magnetoresistive stack.

Partial magnetic biasing of magnetoresistive sensor

An apparatus and associated method is presently disclosed for a data sensing element capable of detecting changes in magnetic states. Various embodiments of the present invention are generally directed to a magnetically responsive lamination that has a spacer layer disposed between a first and second ferromagnetic free layer. The lamination having at least one free layer with a shape feature that increases a scissoring angle between the free layers.

Magnetic element with increased scissoring angle

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