Hgst Netherlands, B.v.

Yuji Ueda

Hideaki Tanaka

Yohji Maruyama

Tomohiro Okada

Takayoshi Ohtsu

Wataru Kimura

Masahiko Soga

Shigeo Fujita

A head-slider. The head-slider includes a slider, and a thin-film magnetic-recording head. The thin-film magnetic-recording head includes: a read element; a write element; a non-magnetic insulating protective layer disposed around both read and write elements; a resist disposed at a position further away from an air-bearing surface than the read element; and, a hard-material member including a material selected from the group consisting of silicon carbide and tungsten, which is disposed at a position further away from the air-bearing surface than the read element and the write element. Both an end of the resist and an end of the hard-material member overlap the write element when viewed in a stacking direction. A ratio of a distance from the air-bearing surface to a deepest end of the hard-material member to a distance from the air-bearing surface to a deepest end of the resist is at least 0.9.

Head-slider including thin-film magnetic-recording head having reduced thermal protrusion

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Kanagawa, Japan

Yuji Ueda