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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Magnetics Conference, 2006. INTERMAG 2006. IEEE International
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-1479-2
DOI :
10.1109/INTMAG.2006.376365
