Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione
Method of manufacturing a magnetoresistive sensor
 The present invention provides a magnetoresistive sensor having at least two ferromagnetic layers provided with a non-magnetic layer therebetween; a coercive force increasing layer consisting of an antiferromagnetic material and provided adjacent to one of the ferromagnetic layers, for increasing the coercive force thereof to pin magnetization reversal, the other ferromagnetic layer having free magnetization reversal; and an antiferromagnetic layer provided to adjacent to the other ferromagnetic layer having free magnetization reversal, for applying a longitudinal bias to the other ferromagnetic layer to induce magnetic anisotropy therein due to an unidirectional exchange bias magnetic field to stabilize a magnetic domain. 
Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
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Naoya Akihiro Masamichi
Hasegawa Makino Saito