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Patent No.:

US 9293160 B1

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Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2016

Filed:

Feb. 06, 2015
Applicant:

Hgst Netherlands B.v., Amsterdam, NL;

Inventors:

Goran Mihajlovic, San Jose, CA (US);

Neil Smith, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

HGST Netherlands B.V., Amsterdam, NL;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/37 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/37 (2013.01); G11B 5/374 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system comprising a sensor with a free layer that exhibits an anomalous Hall effect is disclosed. Further, the sensor has a magnetic underlayer below the free layer in a track direction for biasing a magnetic orientation of the free layer in a first magnetic orientation, and a magnetic overlayer above the free layer in the track direction for biasing the magnetic orientation of the free layer in the first magnetic orientation. Still further, the sensor has a lower nonmagnetic spacer layer between the magnetic underlayer and the free layer, and an upper nonmagnetic spacer layer between the magnetic overlayer and the free layer.


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