Magnetometric sensor magnetically isolated two regions formed of spin-polarized material and magnetic head using the same

摘要

A magnetometric sensor has a wide p-portion formed of almost perfectly spin-polarized material, a wide d-portion also formed of almost perfectly spin-polarized material different in coercive force and a narrow n-portion provided between the wide p-portion and the wide d-portion formed of the almost perfectly spin-polarized material or non-magnetic material, and one of the p-portion and the d-portion changes the spin axes of the conduction electrons in the opposite direction to the other in the presence of a magnetic field for providing a potential gap between the Fermi surface of the p-portion and the Fermi surface of the d-portion, thereby causing electric current to change the amount thereof.