Dual reader structure

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9324342-B2
Application number	US-201514839489-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 28, 2015
Priority date	Aug 30, 2013
Publication date	Apr 26, 2016
Grant date	Apr 26, 2016

Abstract

Implementations described and claimed herein provide a stacked dual reader with a bottom sensor stack and a top sensor stack separated by a top mid-shield and a bottom mid-shield, and a pre-amplifier circuit comprising a top lead connected to the top mid-shield, configured to collect current flowing from the top mid-shield through the top sensor stack opposite a direction of current flowing from the bottom mid-shield to a bottom lead through the bottom sensor stack.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An apparatus comprising:
a stacked dual reader with a bottom sensor stack and a top sensor stack wherein the bottom sensor stack and the top sensor stack are mirrored along a down-track direction, and wherein a top mid-shield and a bottom mid-shield separates the bottom sensor stack and the top sensor stack; and
a pre-amplifier circuit comprising a top lead connected to the top mid-shield, configured to collect current flowing from the top mid-shield through the top sensor stack opposite a direction of current flowing from the bottom mid-shield to a bottom lead through the bottom sensor stack.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the bottom sensor stack is arranged between a bottom shield and the bottom mid-shield with a free layer of the bottom sensor stack being adjacent to the bottom mid-shield and wherein the top sensor stack is arranged between a top shield and the top mid-shield with a free layer of the top sensor stack being adjacent to the top mid-shield.

3. The apparatus of claim 2 , further comprising an insulation layer between the bottom mid-shield and the top-mid shield.

4. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the bottom mid-shield further comprises an antiferromagnetic layer.

5. The apparatus of claim 2 wherein the top shield is a synthetic antiferromagnetic shield and the bottom shield is a SAF shield.

6. The apparatus of claim 2 , further comprising a top signal reader circuit configured between the top mid-shield and the top shield and a bottom signal reader circuit configured between the bottom mid-shield and the bottom shield, wherein the direction of current in the top signal reader circuit and the bottom signal reader circuit are anti-parallel.

7. The apparatus of claim 6 , wherein the polarity of an end of the top signal reader circuit connected to the top mid-shield is same as the polarity of an end of the bottom signal reader circuit connected to the bottom mid-shield.

8. The apparatus of claim 2 wherein the down-track distance between the free layer of the top sensor stack and the free layer of the bottom sensor stack is approximately in the range of 10 nm to 40 nm.

9. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the polarity of the bottom mid-shield is same as to the polarity of the top mid-shield.

10. A dual reader, comprising:
a bottom sensor stack and a top sensor stack separated by a top mid-shield and a bottom mid-shield; and
a pre-amplifier circuit comprising a top lead connected to the top mid-shield, configured to collect current flowing from the top mid-shield through the top sensor stack opposite a direction of current flowing from the bottom mid-shield to a bottom lead through the bottom sensor stack.

11. The dual reader of claim 10 , wherein the bottom sensor stack and the top sensor stack are mirrored along a down-track direction.

12. The dual reader of claim 11 , wherein the bottom sensor stack includes an AFM layer in contact with a bottom shield and the top sensor stack includes an AFM layer in contact with a top shield.

13. The dual reader of claim 11 , wherein there is an insulation layer between the bottom sensor stack and the top sensor stack.

14. The dual reader of claim 11 , wherein the down-track distance between a free layer of the top sensor stack and a free layer of the bottom sensor stack is approximately in the range of 10 nm to 40 nm.

15. The dual reader of claim 10 , wherein the pre-amplifier circuit comprises a top signal reader circuit and a bottom signal reader circuit configured to read signals from the dual reader.

16. The dual reader of claim 15 , wherein the top signal reader circuit is configured between the top mid-shield and a top shield and a bottom signal reader circuit is configured between the bottom mid-shield and a bottom shield, wherein the direction of current in the top signal reader circuit and the bottom signal reader circuit are anti-parallel.

17. A storage device comprising:
a magnetic media; and
a dual reader including a bottom sensor stack and a top sensor stack, wherein the top sensor stack and the bottom sensor stack are separated by a top mid-shield and a bottom mid-shield; and
a pre-amplifier circuit comprising a top lead connected to the top mid-shield, configured to collect current flowing from the top mid-shield through the top sensor stack opposite a direction of current flowing from the bottom mid-shield to a bottom lead through the bottom sensor stack.

18. The storage device of claim 17 , wherein the bottom sensor stack is arranged between a bottom shield and the bottom mid-shield with a free layer of the bottom sensor stack being adjacent to the bottom mid-shield and wherein the top sensor stack is arranged between a top shield and the top mid-shield with a free layer of the top sensor stack being adjacent to the top mid-shield.

19. The storage device of claim 17 , wherein down-track polarity of a signal generated by the bottom sensor stack is opposite the down-track polarity of a signal generated by the top sensor stack.

20. The storage device of claim 17 , wherein the signals generated by the dual reader is read by a top signal reader circuit and a bottom signal reader circuit.

Assignees

• Seagate Technology Llc

Inventors

• Sapozhnikov Victor Boris
• Edelman Harry
• Patwari Mohammed Sharia Ullah

Classifications

• G11B5/3909

  Arrangements using a magnetic tunnel junction · CPC title

• G11B5/3951

  the active elements being arranged on several parallel planes · CPC title

• G11B5/115

  Shielding devices arranged between heads or windings ({G11B5/265} , G11B5/29 take precedence) · CPC title

• G11B5/3954

  the active elements transducing on a single track · CPC title

• G11B5/3948 Primary

  the sensitive elements being active read-out elements · CPC title