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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2015
Headway Technologies, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Glen Garfunkel, San Jose, CA (US);
Yan Wu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Junjie Quan, Fremont, CA (US);
Yewhee Chye, Hayward, CA (US);
Headway Technologies, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
A read head is longitudinally biased unidirectionally by laterally abutting soft magnetic layers or multilayers. The soft magnetic layers are themselves magnetically stabilized by layers of antiferromagnetic material that are exchange coupled to them. The same layers of antiferromagnetic materials can be used to stabilize a unidirectional anisotropy of an overhead shield by means of exchange coupling. By including the antiferromagnetic material layer within the patterned biasing structure itself, an additional layer of antiferromagnetic material that normally covers the entire sensor structure is eliminated. The elimination of an entire layer is also advantageous for reducing the inter-sensor spacing in a TDMR (two dimensional magnetic recording) configuration where two sensor are vertically stacked on top of each other.