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Magnetoresistance effect element, magnetic head and magnetic recording and/or reproducing system

  • US 20020051380A1
  • Filed: 09/07/2001
  • Published: 05/02/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2000
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A magnetoresistance effect element comprising:

  • a magnetization fixed layer in which a direction of magnetization is substantially fixed to one direction;

    a magnetization free layer in which a direction of magnetization varies in response to an external magnetic field; and

    a non-magnetic intermediate layer provided between the magnetization fixed layer and the magnetization free layer, at least one of the magnetization fixed layer and the magnetization free layer having a stacked body in which ferromagnetic layers and non-magnetic layers are alternately stacked, the non-magnetic layers in the stacked body being thinner than the non-magnetic intermediate layer, a resistance of the magnetoresistance effect element varying in accordance with a relative angle between the direction of magnetization of the magnetization fixed layer and the direction of magnetization of the magnetization free layer, and a sense current being flowed to the magnetization fixed layer, the non-magnetic intermediate layer and the magnetization free layer in a direction substantially perpendicular to surfaces of those layers.

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