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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2017
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Suping Song, Fremont, CA (US);
Zhanjie Li, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Michael Kuok San Ho, Redwood City, CA (US);
Quang Le, San Jose, CA (US);
Alexander M. Zeltser, San Jose, CA (US);
WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure generally relates to data storage devices, and more specifically, to a magnetic media drive employing a magnetic recording head. The head includes a main pole, a heavy metal structure surrounding at least a portion of the main pole at a media facing surface (MFS), and two magnetic structures sandwiching the heavy metal structure. Spin-orbit torque (SOT) is generated from the heavy metal structure, inducing magnetization switching (or precession) in the magnetic structures. The SOT reduces the magnetic flux shunting from the main pole to the trailing shield, and the magnetization switching sharpens the write field profile in the cross-track direction. The SOT based head with the magnetic structures sandwiching the heavy metal structure increases both track density (tracks per inch) and linear density (bit per inch), which in turn increases the areal density capability (ADC), which is the product of tracks per inch and bit per inch.