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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 1996
Filed:
Jan. 17, 1995
Teruya Shinjo, Uji, JP;
Hidefumi Yamamoto, Kobe, JP;
Toshihiko Anno, Kyoto, JP;
Toshio Takada, Kyoto, JP;
Ube Industries, Ltd., Yamaguchi, JP;
Kanegafuchi Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Nippon Steel Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
TDK Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Tosoh Corporation, Yamaguchi, JP;
Toyo Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Japan Energy Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Seisan Kaihatsu Kagaku Kenkyusho, Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
A magnetoresistance effect element having a substrate, a buffer layer of a metal selected from the group consisting of chromium, tungsten, titanium, vanadium, manganese and their alloys which is formed on the substrate, and at least two magnetic thin layers which are laminated with interposing a non-magnetic thin layer therebetween on the metal thin layer, wherein adjacent magnetic thin layers through the non-magnetic thin layer have different coercive forces. This magnetoresistance effect element has an increased magnetoresistance ratio.