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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2019
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Yung-Hung Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
Daniele Mauri, San Jose, CA (US);
Ming Mao, Dublin, CA (US);
Chen-jung Chien, Mountain View, CA (US);
Yuankai Zheng, Fremont, CA (US);
Chih-Ching Hu, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Carlos Corona, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Matthew Stevenson, San Jose, CA (US);
Ming Jiang, San Jose, CA (US);
WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure generally relates to a Wheatstone bridge that has four resistors. Each resistor includes a plurality of tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) structures. Two resistors have identical TMR structures. The remaining two resistors also have identical TMR structures, though the TMR structures are different from the other two resistors. Additionally, the two resistors that have identical TMR structures each have an additional non-TMR resistor as compared to the remaining two resistors that have identical TMR structures. Therefore, the working bias field for the Wheatstone bridge is non-zero.