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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 1996
Filed:
Oct. 17, 1994
Yoshiaki Saito, Yokohama, JP;
Koichiro Inomata, Yokohama, JP;
Shiho Okuno, Fujisawa, JP;
Yoshinori Takahashi, Yokohama, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A magnetoresistance effect element includes a multilayer stack of alternating magnetic and nonmagnetic layers, and having a mixture layer constituted by a mixture of a ferromagnetic element and a non-ferromagnetic element interposed between adjacent stacked magnetic and non-magnetic layers so as to exhibit a magnetoresistance effect. The multilayered stack includes at least two magnetic layers, at least two mixture layers, and at least one non-magnetic layer. 2(X.sub.1 /X.sub.n)/n is larger than 1.1 where n is the number of atomic layers of the mixture layer, X.sub.1 is an atomic concentration (%) of the ferromagnetic element of an atomic layer closest to the magnetic layer, and X.sub.n is an atomic concentration (%) of the ferromagnetic element of the n-th atomic layer closest to the non-magnetic layer.