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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2014
Seagate Technology Llc, Cupertino, CA (US);
Mark Thomas Kief, Lakeville, MN (US);
Dimitar Velikov Dimitrov, Edina, MN (US);
Thomas Roy Boonstra, Chaska, MN (US);
SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC, Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A read head includes a bottom shield and a bottom isolation layer that electrically isolates the bottom shield. The read head includes left and right reader stacks having respective bottom layers disposed on at least a portion of the bottom isolation layer. The left and right reader stacks are cross-track adjacent to one another. The read head also includes left and right bottom contacts electrically coupled to respective left and right bottom layers. A top shield is configured as a common top contact electrically coupled to respective top layers of the left and right reader stacks.