Seagate Technology Incorporated

Levent Colak

Dimitar Velikov Dimitrov

Eric Walter Singleton

Mark Thomas Kief

Mark William Covington

Shaun Eric McKinlay

Dian Song

David A Deen

Thomas Roy Boonstra

Anthony M Mack

Carolyn Pitcher Van Dorn

Thu-Van Thi Nguyen

A lateral spin valve reader includes a detector located proximate to a bearing surface of the reader, a spin injector located away from the bearing surface, and a channel layer that substantially extends from the detector to the spin injector. The channel layer and the detector are substantially in a same plane.

Lateral spin valve reader with in-plane detector

A data reader and associated method of making are generally provided. A data reader capable of sensing adjacent data bits may be configured at least with a magnetic stack disposed between first and second side shields. Each side shield may have a polish stop layer that is tuned to provide a first predetermined polish rate.

Data reader side shields with polish stop

A magnetic element is generally provided that can be implemented as a transducing head. Various embodiments may configure a magnetic stack to be separated from a side shield lamination on an air bearing surface (ABS). The side shield lamination can be constructed to have a plurality of magnetic and non-magnetic layers each coupled to a top shield.

Magnetic element with top shield coupled side shield lamination

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