Microwave assisted magnetic head

• US 9,330,691 B1
• Filed: 07/29/2015
• Issued: 05/03/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Yamada, Kenichiro, Taguchi, Tomoko, Matsumoto, Takuya, Narita, Naoyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Cao, Allen T
• Application Number:
  US14/812,556
• Time in Patent Office: 279 Days
• Field of Search: 360/125.3, 360/125.03, 360/125.09, 360/125.04, 360/125.17, 360/125.12, 360/125.06, 360/125.15, 360/125.26, 360/125.19
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2005/0024 Microwave assisted recording
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 5/127 Structure or manufacture of heads, e.g. inductive
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 5/1278 specially adapted for magnetisations perpendicular to the surface of the record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 5/23 Gap features G11B5/1871, G11B5/1875, G11B5/265, G11B5/29, G11B5/488 and subgroups, G11B5/4907 and subgroups, G11B5/4969 and subgroups take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 5/3116 Shaping of layers, poles or gaps for improving the form of the electrical signal transduced, e.g. for shielding, contour effect, equalizing, side flux fringing, cross talk reduction between heads or between heads and information tracks G11B5/3113, G11B5/245 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 5/314 where the layers are extra layers normally not provided in the transducing structure, e.g. optical layers G11B5/3196 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 5/3146 magnetic layers

Abstract

According to one embodiment, a microwave assisted magnetic head includes a spin torque oscillator, and if driving current of the spin torque oscillator is zero, a magnetization direction of the spin injection layer is identical regardless of polarity of recording current, and if the driving current of the spin torque oscillator is not zero, the magnetization direction of the spin injection layer changes in response to the polarity of the recording current.

Claims

1. A microwave assisted magnetic head comprising:

a main pole;

an auxiliary pole opposed to the main pole;

a coil which magnetizes the main pole and the auxiliary pole;

a spin torque oscillator provided between the main pole and the auxiliary pole; and

a terminal which supply electricity to the spin torque oscillator, wherein

the spin torque oscillator includes a spin injection layer formed on either the main pole or the auxiliary pole, an intermediate layer formed on the spin injection layer, and an oscillation layer formed on the intermediate layer, and

a magnetization direction of the spin injection layer is identical regardless of polarity of a recording current if a driving current of the spin torque oscillator is zero, and the magnetization direction of the spin injection layer changes in response to the polarity of the recording current if the driving current of the spin torque oscillator is not zero.

2. The microwave assisted magnetic head of claim 1, wherein magnetization reversal is possible in response to polarity reversal of the recording current occurred by increase of the driving current of the spin torque oscillator.

3. The microwave assisted magnetic head of claim 1, wherein a magnetic resistance change of the spin torque oscillator by a magnetic resistance effect is asymmetric with respect to the polarity of the recording current if the driving current of the spin torque oscillator is zero, and the magnetic resistance change of the spin torque oscillator by the magnetic resistance effect becomes symmetric with respect to the polarity of the recording current by supplying the driving current to the spin torque oscillator.

4. The microwave assisted magnetic head of claim 1, wherein a normal of a surface of the main pole opposite to the spin torque oscillator and a magnetic easy axis direction of the spin torque oscillator are parallel to each other.

5. The microwave assisted magnetic head of claim 1, wherein polarity of the driving current of the spin torque oscillator is constantly the same.

6. The microwave assisted magnetic head of claim 1, wherein an average value of a distance between the main pole and a trailing shield opposed to the main pole, as being viewed from an air bearing surface side, is greater than a film thickness of the spin torque oscillator.

7. The microwave assisted magnetic head of claim 1, wherein the product of saturation magnetization and film thickness of the oscillation layer of the spin torque oscillator is in a range between 25 and 40 nmT.

8. The microwave assisted magnetic head of claim 1, wherein the spin injection layer includes an alloy containing manganese and having perpendicular magnetic anisotropy.