Patent ID: 6650511
Filing Date: 2003-11-18
Classification: B82Y,G11B

Abstract:
A magnetic head assembly comprising:a slider that has an air bearing surface (ABS); a read head carried by the slider and forming a portion of the ABS so as to be capable of facing a magnetic medium for receiving field signals therefrom; the read head having a sensor for sensing said field signals; first and second leads connected to the sensor and extending within the slider to spaced apart first and second lead ends at an exterior surface of the slider; a multilayer electrically conductive shunt located on said exterior surface in electrical contact with each of the first and second lead ends and extending therebetween; electrically conductive spaced apart first and second read pads located on the conductive shunt and in electrical contact with said first and second lead ends via said conductive shunt; said conductive shunt including: a non-aniosotropic magnetoresistive (non-AMR) adhesion layer on and interfacing said exterior surface of the slider; a non-AMR electrically conductive layer on and interfacing the adhesion layer; and the conductive layer being thicker and being a greater electrical conductivity material than the adhesion layer.