Patent ID: 6271994
Filing Date: 2001-08-07
Classification: G11B,Y10T

Abstract:
A magnetic head, comprising:a slider;a thin film element provided at an end portion on a trailing side of the slider for at least one of magnetic recording and magnetic reproducing, said thin film element having a NiFe alloy layer;wherein, when a recording medium is stopped, a recording medium facing surface of the slider contacts a surface of the recording medium;wherein, after the recording medium is started to move, the magnetic head receives an upwardly floating force caused by an air flow on the surface of the recording medium; andwherein a carbon film is directly formed on a surface of the thin film element facing the recording medium and on the recording medium facing surface of the slider; andwherein a crystal structure of a surface portion of the NiFe alloy layer forming the thin film element, comprises an .alpha. phase (body centered cubic lattice) having a thickness of 0.5-40 nm.