Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione
Self-pinned magnetic detecting element
A CPP magnetic detecting element having a pinned magnetic layer whose magnetization is fixed by its uniaxial anisotropy in a structure that CIP magnetic detecting elements do not allow. In the CPP magnetic detecting element, the upper and lower surfaces of a pinned magnetic layer is disposed between nonmagnetic metal magnetostriction-enhancing layers. CPP magnetic detecting elements allow this structure without degrading the GMR effect. Thus, the magnetostriction coefficient of the pinned magnetic layer can be increased from above and below to produce an appropriate magnetoelasticity. Consequently, the magnetization of the pinned magnetic layer can be more firmly fixed.
Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
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Masamichi Naoya Eiji
Saito Hasegawa Umetsu