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US08154828B2 Magnetoresistive effect element in CPP-type structure and magnetic disk device 有权
CPP型结构和磁盘装置中的磁阻效应元件

Magnetoresistive effect element in CPP-type structure and magnetic disk device
Abstract:
An MR element in a CPP structure includes a spacer layer made of Cu, a magnetic pinned layer containing CoFe and a free layer containing CoFe that are laminated to sandwich the spacer layer. The free layer is located below the magnetic pinned layer. The free layer is oriented in a (001) crystal plane, the spacer layer is formed and oriented in a (001) crystal plane on the (001) crystal plane of the free layer. Therefore, in a low resistance area where an area resistivity (AR) of the MR element is, for example, lower than 0.3 Ω·μm2, an MR element that has a large variation of a resistance is obtained.
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