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Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 2019

Filed:

Jul. 26, 2017
Applicant:

Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

James Terrence Olson, Santa Cruz, CA (US);

Hiroyuki Hoshiya, Odawara, JP;

Alexander Goncharov, San Jose, CA (US);

Masato Shiimoto, Fujisawa, JP;

Mikito Sugiyama, Odawara, JP;

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/00 (2006.01); G11B 5/39 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/3929 (2013.01); G11B 5/3912 (2013.01); G11B 2005/0024 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed herein are magnetic write heads for providing spin-torque-assisted write field enhancement, and hard disk drives comprising such magnetic write heads. Within the write gap, each magnetic write head comprises a main pole, a trailing shield, a spacer disposed between the main pole and the trailing shield, a non-magnetic layer disposed between the main pole and the trailing shield, and a magnetic DC-field-generation (DFG) layer adjacent to the spacer and disposed between the spacer and the non-magnetic layer. In some embodiments, the DFG layer is the only magnetic layer within the write gap that is not adjacent to the main pole or the trailing shield.


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