Patent ID: 9214171
Filing Date: 2015-12-15
Classification: G01R,G11B,H01L,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A magnetoresistance effect element, comprising: a first shield; a second shield; a first side magnetic unit including a second side magnetic unit including a stacked body including a hard bias unit provided between the first shield and the second shield to be arranged with the stacked body in a third direction intersecting the first direction and intersecting the second direction, a first distance between the first magnetic layer and the fifth magnetic layer in a first plane perpendicular to the first direction and passing through a center of the fifth magnetic layer in the first direction being shorter than a second distance between the second magnetic layer and the sixth magnetic layer in a second plane perpendicular to the first direction and passing through a center of the sixth magnetic layer in the first direction, a third distance between the third magnetic layer and the fifth magnetic layer in the first plane being shorter than a fourth distance between the fourth magnetic layer and the sixth magnetic layer in the second plane.