Application of giant magnetoresistive elements in thin film tape heads

We studied the applicability of Ni/sub 80/Fe/sub 20//Cu/Ni/sub 80/Fe/sub 20//Fe/sub 50/Mn/sub 50/ GMR multilayers for thin film tape heads. A method involving crossed anisotropies is applied for avoiding noise in the GMR response. We compare and analyse the sensitivities of AMR and GMR heads.<
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