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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 04, 2005
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2002
Takeo Kagami, Tokyo, JP;
Norio Takahashi, Tokyo, JP;
Takumi Uesugi, Tokyo, JP;
TDK Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A magneto-resistive device has a magneto-resistive layer laminated between electrodes. The magneto-resistive layer has a non-magnetic layer, a pinned layer and a free layer sandwiching the non-magnetic layer, and a pin layer formed on the pinned layer on the opposite side to the free layer. The pin layer is formed in a region which substantially overlaps with an effective region in a film plane direction in which a current flows in a direction substantially perpendicular to the film plane between the electrodes in a predetermined thickness, and is formed in a region which does not substantially overlap with the effective region substantially in the same thickness as the predetermined thickness or in a thickness smaller than the predetermined thickness, continuous from the region which substantially overlaps with the effective region.