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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2022
Filed:
May. 05, 2020
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
James Mac Freitag, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Zheng Gao, San Jose, CA (US);
WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure generally relates to magnetoresistive device apparatus and methods. The magnetoresistive device includes a read head. The read head is a tunneling magnetoresistive reader that includes a multilayer free layer structure. The multilayer structure includes one or more layers of Co or FCC FeCo sandwiched between a BCC CoFe50 nanolayer and an amorphous CoFeB layer. The one or more layers of Co or FCC FeCo create nanocrystalline disorder that allows the thickness of the amorphous CoFeB layer to be reduced while retaining or even improving TMR and reducing the interlayer coupling field.