| 摘要 |
The invention provides a thin-film magnetic head having a magneto-resistive effect device of the CPP (current perpendicular to plane) structure comprising a multilayer film in which a fixed magnetization layer, a nonmagnetic layer and a free layer are stacked together in order. The fixed magnetization layer, nonmagnetic layer and free layer extend rearward from an air bearing surface that is a plane in opposition to a medium, the length of the depth-wise side of the fixed magnetization layer is longer than that of the free layer, and a shunt layer for shunting a sense current is formed more on the depth-wise side of, and kept constantly away from, the free layer. There are thus much more favorable advantages obtained: even when device size is further reduced and narrowed, degradation of frequency characteristics is hold back, any increase in the thermal magnetic noise is stayed off, and performance fluctuations are minimized.
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