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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2007
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2004
Youfeng Zheng, San Jose, CA (US);
Kochan Ju, Monte Sereno, CA (US);
Youfeng Zheng, San Jose, CA (US);
Kochan Ju, Monte Sereno, CA (US);
Headway Technologies, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
The series resistance of a CPP read head having in-stack biasing has been reduced by stitching the AFM layer through a high conductance layer. Both the AFM and high conductance layers have significantly larger cross-sectional areas than the high conductance layer of prior art structures so the contribution, to the total resistance of the device, from the AFM layer as well as from spreading resistance at the stack-lead interface, is significantly reduced. The high conductance layer provides sufficient ferromagnetic coupling to enable the AFM to stabilize the in-stack bias layer. A process to manufacture the device is also described.