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    公开(公告)号:DE69132027T2

    公开(公告)日:2000-09-14

    申请号:DE69132027

    申请日:1991-12-09

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: A magnetoresistive (MR) sensor is disclosed which comprises a first and a second thin film layer of a magnetic material separated by a thin film layer of a non-magnetic metallic material. The first ferromagnetic layer is magnetically soft. The magnetization direction of the first layer of magnetic material is set substantially perpendicular to the magnetization of the second layer of magnetic material at zero applied field, and the magnetization direction of the second layer of magnetic material is fixed. A current flow is produced through the MR sensor, and the variations in voltage across the MR sensor are sensed due to changes in resistance of the MR sensor produced by rotation of the magnetization in the first layer of magnetic material as a function of the magnetic field being sensed. The variation of the resistance with the angle between the magnetizations of the first and second layers of magnetic material has been defined as the spin valve (SV) effect. It is also shown that, by a suitable direction of the current with respect to the fixed magnetization, the (SV) magnetoresistance can be added constructively to the usual anisotropic magnetoresistance.

    MAGNETORESISTIVE SENSOR BASED ON OSCILLATIONS IN THE MAGNETORESISTANCE

    公开(公告)号:CA2060561C

    公开(公告)日:1998-05-05

    申请号:CA2060561

    申请日:1992-02-03

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: A magnetoresistive (MR) sensor comprising a multilayered structure formed on a substrate includes alternating layers of a ferromagnetic material and a non-magnetic metallic material. The ferromagnetic material and the non-magnetic material form bilayers which exhibit the property that the magnetoresistance of the multilayered structure oscillates as a function of thickness of the non-magnetic material. A current flow is produced through the MR sensor, and the variations in the resistivity of the MR sensor are sensed as a function of the magnetic field being sensed.

    23.
    发明专利
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    公开(公告)号:DE69216868D1

    公开(公告)日:1997-03-06

    申请号:DE69216868

    申请日:1992-02-07

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: A magnetoresistive (MR) sensor comprising a layered structure formed on a substrate (11) includes a first (12) and a second (16) thin film layer (14) of magnetic material separated by a thin film layer of non-magnetic metallic material such as Cu, Au, or Ag, with at least one of the layers of ferromagnetic material formed of either cobalt or a cobalt alloy. The magnetization direction of the first ferromagnetic layer, at zero applied field, is set substantially perpendicular to the magnetization direction of the second ferromagnetic layer which is fixed in position. A current flow is produced through the sensor, and the variations in voltage across the MR sensor are sensed due to the changes in resistance produced by rotation of the magnetization in the front layer of ferromagnetic material as a function of the magnetic field being sensed.

    27.
    发明专利
    未知

    公开(公告)号:DE69132027D1

    公开(公告)日:2000-04-13

    申请号:DE69132027

    申请日:1991-12-09

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: A magnetoresistive (MR) sensor is disclosed which comprises a first and a second thin film layer of a magnetic material separated by a thin film layer of a non-magnetic metallic material. The first ferromagnetic layer is magnetically soft. The magnetization direction of the first layer of magnetic material is set substantially perpendicular to the magnetization of the second layer of magnetic material at zero applied field, and the magnetization direction of the second layer of magnetic material is fixed. A current flow is produced through the MR sensor, and the variations in voltage across the MR sensor are sensed due to changes in resistance of the MR sensor produced by rotation of the magnetization in the first layer of magnetic material as a function of the magnetic field being sensed. The variation of the resistance with the angle between the magnetizations of the first and second layers of magnetic material has been defined as the spin valve (SV) effect. It is also shown that, by a suitable direction of the current with respect to the fixed magnetization, the (SV) magnetoresistance can be added constructively to the usual anisotropic magnetoresistance.

    28.
    发明专利
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    公开(公告)号:DE3888217T2

    公开(公告)日:1994-09-22

    申请号:DE3888217

    申请日:1988-01-29

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: Compositions having the formula A1+/-xM2+/-xCu3Oy, wherein A is Y, or a combination of Y La, Lu, Sc or Yb; M is Ba, or a combination of Ba, Sr or Ca and y is sufficient to satisfy the valence demands, have been found to be bulk electrical superconductors at a temperature above 77K. The compositions are single phase perovskite-like crystalline structures. They are made by a process involving intimately mixing the metal oxides or their precursors in the proper molar ratios, heating the mixture in the presence of oxygen to a temperature between about 800 DEG C and about 1100 DEG C and slowly cooling the mixture to room temperature in the presence of oxygen over a period of at least four hours.

    29.
    发明专利
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    公开(公告)号:DE3888217D1

    公开(公告)日:1994-04-14

    申请号:DE3888217

    申请日:1988-01-29

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: Compositions having the formula A1+/-xM2+/-xCu3Oy, wherein A is Y, or a combination of Y La, Lu, Sc or Yb; M is Ba, or a combination of Ba, Sr or Ca and y is sufficient to satisfy the valence demands, have been found to be bulk electrical superconductors at a temperature above 77K. The compositions are single phase perovskite-like crystalline structures. They are made by a process involving intimately mixing the metal oxides or their precursors in the proper molar ratios, heating the mixture in the presence of oxygen to a temperature between about 800 DEG C and about 1100 DEG C and slowly cooling the mixture to room temperature in the presence of oxygen over a period of at least four hours.

    MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTION MAGNETORESISTIVE READ HEAD WITH SENSING LAYER AS FLUX GUIDE

    公开(公告)号:MY114962A

    公开(公告)日:2003-02-28

    申请号:MYPI9804348

    申请日:1998-09-22

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: A MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTION (MTJ) MAGNETORESISTIVE READ HEAD FOR A MAGNETIC RECORDING SYSTEM HAS THE MTJ SENSING OR FREE FERROMAGNETIC LAYER (132) ALSO FUNCTIONING AS A FLUX GUIDE TO DIRECT MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM TO THE TUNNEL JUNCTION. THE MTJ FIXED FERROMAGNETIC LAYER (118) HAS ITS FRONT EDGE RECESSED FROM THE SENSING SURFACE (200) OF THE HEAD. BOTH THE FIXED AND FREE FERROMAGNETIC LAYERS ARE IN CONTACT WITH OPPOSITE SURFACES OF THE MTJ TUNNEL BARRIER LAYER (120) BUT THE FREE FERROMAGNETIC LAYER EXTENDS BEYOND THE BACK EDGE (208, 212) OF EITHER THE TUNNEL BARRIER LAYER OR THE FIXED FERROMAGNETIC LAYER, WHICHEVER BACK EDGE IS CLOSER TO THE SENSING SURFACE. THIS ASSURES THAT THE MAGNETIC FLUX IS NON-ZERO IN THE TUNNEL JUNCTION REGION. THE MAGNETIZATION DIRECTION OF THE FIXED FERROMAGNETIC LAYER IS FIXED IN A DIRECTION GENERALLY PERPENDICULAR TO THE SENSING SURFACE AND THUS TO THE MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, PREFERABLY BY INTERFACIAL EXCHANGE COUPLING WITH AN ANTIFERROMAGNETIC LAYER. THE MAGNETIZATION DIRECTION OF THE FREE FERROMAGNETIC LAYER IS ALIGNED IN A DIRECTION GENERALLY PARALLEL TO THE SURFACE OF THE MEDIUM IN THE ABSENCE OF AN APPLIED MAGNETIC FIELD AND IS FREE TO ROTATE IN THE PRESENCE OF APPLIED MAGNETIC FIELDS FROM THE MEDIUM. A LAYER OF HIGH COERCIVITY HARD MAGNETIC MATERIAL ADJACENT THE SIDES OF THE FREE FERROMAGNETIC LAYER LONGITUDINALLY BIASES THE MAGNETIZATION OF THE FREE FERROMAGNETIC LAYER IN THE PREFERRED DIRECTION.

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