• DocumentCode
    2944741
  • Title

    Corrosion-Resistant GMR Head for Over-1TB Tape System

  • Author

    Sekine, M. ; Watanabe, T. ; Tamakawa, Y. ; Shibata, T. ; Soda, Y.

  • Author_Institution
    Sony Corp., Atsugi
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    8-12 May 2006
  • Firstpage
    641
  • Lastpage
    641
  • Abstract
    In this paper, the corrosion-resistant GMR head is exposed to corrosive gases, the recording characteristics is measured using a helical-scan tape system. A corrosion-resistant GMR head using an spin-valve (SV) film(Ta/NiFe/CoNiFe/CuAu/CoNiFe/PtMn/Ta) was fabricated.
  • Keywords
    cobalt alloys; corrosion resistance; giant magnetoresistance; gold alloys; iron alloys; magnetic heads; magnetic recording; manganese alloys; metallic thin films; nickel alloys; platinum alloys; spin valves; tantalum; Ta-NiFe-CoNiFe-CuAu-CoNiFe-PtMn-Ta; corrosion-resistant GMR head; corrosive gases; helical-scan tape system; over-ITB tape system; recording characteristics; spin-valve film; Annealing; Corrosion; Electrical resistance measurement; Magnetic field measurement; Magnetic films; Magnetic heads; Magnetic properties; Pollution measurement; Signal to noise ratio; Testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Magnetics Conference, 2006. INTERMAG 2006. IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-1479-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/INTMAG.2006.376365
  • Filename
    4262074