Abstract:
By suitably pulsing a coil overlying a magnetic film or platelet in which magnetic bubble domains exist, the domains within the coil reverse their magnetization vectors with respect to bubble domains in the magnetic material outside of the coil, thus enabling the controlled generation of hollow bubbles.
Abstract:
A flat display system using cylindrical magnetic domains existing within a magnetic sheet, such as orthoferrite or garnet. Located on the magnetic sheet is a propagation means corresponding to a horizontal shift register and a plurality of vertical shift registers for transferring the content of the horizontal shift register in a direction transverse to the data flow in the horizontal shift register. The vertical shift registers are terminated with domain collapsers. The domain generator supplies domains serially into the horizontal shift register in accordance with an applied data signal. When fully loaded, the contents of the horizontal register are shifted in parallel by the vertical registers. This continues until the entire pattern is on the magnetic sheet, after which the sheet is illuminated by incident polarized light. An analyzer is used to differentiate light which passes through a domain from that which does not pass through a domain. Consequently, an image corresponding to the stored domain pattern is viewed. Commercial TV applications are possible.
Abstract:
A space displacement arrangement of magnetic domain chips with respect to each other, which allows packaging with a minimum number of memory interconnections and low operating power. In addition, reduction of the number of preamplifiers and the number of sensors is achieved. Each chip contains bubble domain devices thereon, and provides a complete bubble domain memory system. Spatially rotating the chips with respect to one another means that the same reorienting magnetic drive field will have a time displaced effect on each of the chips. That is, each chip will see the reorienting drive field at a different time. In this manner, multiplexing on a chip-to-chip basis is achieved. The chips can be arranged so that no interconnection cross-overs result, even though they are rotationally displaced with respect to one another.
Abstract:
A MAGNETORESISTIVE SENSING DEVICE FOR DETECTION OF MAGNETIC FLUX, COMPRISING A MAGNETORESISTIVE SENSING ELEMENT IN WHICH THE SHAPE ANISOTROPY FIELD IS SUBSTANTIALLY PERPENDICULAR TO THE UNIAXIAL ANISOTROPY FIELD. THE LARGER OF THESE TOW MAGNETIC FIELDS IS IN A DIRECTION WHICH IS SUBSTANTIALLY NORMAL TO THE DIRECTION OF THE SIGNAL FLUX WHICH IS TO BE DETECTED, TO INSURE THAT THE MAGNETIZATION VECTOR OF THE SENSING ELEMENT WILL RETURN TO ITS REST STATE WHEN THE SIGNAL MAGNETIC FLUX IS REMOVED. THE EASY AXIS OF THE SENSING ELEMENT CAN BE EITHER PARALLEL OR NORMAL TO THE SIGNAL MAGNETIC FIELD DIRECTION. CURRENT THROUGH THE SENSING ELEMTN IS PREFERABLY PROVIDED BY A CONSTANT CURRENT SOURCE CONNECTED TO THE ELEMENT. THE DIRECTION OF CURRENT THROUGH THE ELEMENT CAN BE EITHER ALONG THE DIRECTION OF THE QUIESCENT MAGNETIZATION STATE OR PERPENDICULAR TO IT. APPLICATIONS INCLUDE MAGNETIC BUBBLE DOMAIN SENSING AND SENSING OF STORED MAGNETIC SIGNALS ON DISKS OR TAPES.
Abstract:
A magneto-resistive sensing technique for detection of very small single-wall magnetic domains. An apparatus is provided in which magneto-resistive sensing elements are located on a magnetic material capable of supporting single-wall magnetic domains (bubble domains). Since very small bubble domains have only small amounts of magnetic flux associated with them, a transverse magnetic bias field is used to move the operation of each sensing element into a linear region to maximize the sensor''s incremental resistance change for a given change in flux. This transverse bias field is derived from the applied magnetic field used to propagate the bubble domains or from the stabilizing field used to stabilize the domains, thereby eliminating the need for an auxiliary bias field. In order to use the applied propagation and bias fields, the sensing elements are precisely located with respect to the propagation means, and have particular orientations.
Abstract:
An improved magnetoresistive sensing device for detection of cylindrical magnetic domains (bubble domains) in which the domains are expanded before being sensed. The sensing element is magnetically soft material, such as permalloy, located in fluxcoupling proximity to bubble domains which exist in a magnetic sheet. Current through the sensing element aids in the bubble domain expansion and does not impede bubble domain motion even though it is of large magnitude. Due to the expansion, a greater output signal is achieved. The structure also is useful in providing bubble domain annihilation after sensing. This eliminates the usual time delay in moving the domain to an annihilator circuit for destruction and also eliminates the need for a separate annihilator circuit.
Abstract:
A magnetoresistive sensing device for detection of cylindrical magnetic domains (bubble domains) in magnetic bubble sheets. Cancellation of noise due to fields (such as the propagation (drive) field) which intercept the sensing element is achieved by using two magnetoresistive sensing elements whose combined voltage (or current) output is constant in the absence of a bubble domain. In one sensing element, the measuring current through the element is substantially parallel to the magnetization direction of that element, while in the second element, the measuring current is substantially perpendicular to the magnetization direction of the second element. In a preferred embodiment, two sensing elements are electrically connected in series and the sum of their resistances is constant when the device is being operated, in the absence of domains. When a domain is present, the sum of the resistances is different, so the output of the device changes. Each sensor can be associated with a different information channel (or group of channels) in which domains are propagated.
Abstract:
The presence and absence of cylindrical domains in a magnetic material is determined by using either the Faraday or Kerr effect in conjunction with two semiconductor lasers. When both lasers are biased just below their lasing thresholds, the magnetic material, in conjunction with the cylindrical domains, functions as a Q-switch wherein the cylindrical domains establish an optical cavity when they enter the optical path between the two lasers. When one laser is biased just below its lasing threshold and the other is biased in its lasing mode, the apparatus functions in a source-detector mode. The apparatus operating in either mode is very adaptable for multicell or array implementation.
Abstract:
A magneto-resistive sensing technique for detection of very small single-wall magnetic domains. An apparatus is provided in which magneto-resistive sensing elements are located on a magnetic material capable of supporting single-wall magnetic domains (bubble domains). Since very small bubble domains have only small amounts of magnetic flux associated with them, a transverse magnetic bias field is used to move the operation of each sensing element into a linear region to maximize the sensor's incremental resistance change for a given change in flux. This transverse bias field is derived from the applied magnetic field used to propagate the bubble domains or from the stabilizing field used to stabilize the domains, thereby eliminating the need for an auxiliary bias field. In order to use the applied propagation and bias fields, the sensing elements are precisely located with respect to the propagation means, and have particular orientations.