According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes a disk, a head including a write head configured to write data on the disk, a first read head, and a second read head each configured to read data from the disk, and a controller configured to detect a first error of each track pitch corresponding to each track of the disk on the basis of a first gap in a radial direction between the first read head and the second read head at each position in the radial direction of the disk, write a servo pattern on the disk on the basis of a first correction value used to correct the first error, and position the head on the basis of the servo pattern.

According to one embodiment, a magnetic head includes a reproducing portion. The reproducing portion includes first to fourth magnetic portions and a stacked body. The third magnetic portion is provided between the first and second magnetic portions. The fourth magnetic portion is provided between the first and second magnetic portions. A second direction from the third magnetic portion toward the fourth magnetic portion crosses a first direction from the first magnetic portion toward the second magnetic portion. The stacked body is provided between the first and second magnetic portions in the first direction and between the third and fourth magnetic portions in the second direction. The stacked body includes a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer provided between the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic portion in the first direction, and an intermediate layer provided between the first and second magnetic layers in the first direction.

Integrated circuits and methods for fabricating magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) structures and integrated circuits are provided. An exemplary method for fabricating an integrated circuit including a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) structure includes forming magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) layers over a substrate. Further, the method includes forming a conductive pillar over the MTJ layers, wherein the conductive pillar is formed with an uppermost surface, and wherein the uppermost surface is not planarized. Also, the method includes etching the MTJ layers to form a pillar structure from portions of the MTJ layers underlying the conductive pillar.

According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes a disk, a head including a write head configured to write data on the disk, a first read head, and a second read head each configured to read data from the disk, and a controller configured to detect a first error of each track pitch corresponding to each track of the disk on the basis of a first gap in a radial direction between the first read head and the second read head at each position in the radial direction of the disk, write a servo pattern on the disk on the basis of a first correction value used to correct the first error, and position the head on the basis of the servo pattern.

An apparatus according to one embodiment includes a sensor having an active region, a magnetic shield adjacent the active region, a spacer between the active region and the magnetic shield, a second magnetic shield on an opposite side of the active region as the magnetic shield, and a second spacer between the active region and the second magnetic shield. Both spacers include an electrically conductive ceramic layer. The electrically conductive ceramic layer of the spacer has a different composition than the electrically conductive ceramic layer of the second spacer.

According to one embodiment, a magnetic head includes a reproducing portion. The reproducing portion includes first to fourth magnetic portions and a stacked body. The third magnetic portion is provided between the first and second magnetic portions. The fourth magnetic portion is provided between the first and second magnetic portions. A second direction from the third magnetic portion toward the fourth magnetic portion crosses a first direction from the first magnetic portion toward the second to magnetic portion. The stacked body is provided between the first and second magnetic portions in the first direction and between the third and fourth magnetic portions in the second direction. The stacked body includes a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer provided between the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic portion in the first direction, and an intermediate layer provided between the first and second magnetic layers in the first direction.

An apparatus, according to one embodiment, includes: write transducers, each having: a first write pole having a pole tip, and a second write pole having a pole tip, the pole tips extending from a media facing side of the respective write pole. The pole tip of the second write pole is configured to emanate magnetic flux directly from the media facing side toward a magnetic medium. Each write transducer has a nonmagnetic write gap between the pole tips of the write poles, and a first high moment layer between the write gap and the pole tip of the second write pole. The first high moment layer has a higher magnetic moment than that of the pole tip of the second write pole. Moreover, the first high moment layer protrudes beyond a plane extending along a media facing side of the pole tips of the first and second write poles.

A magnetic tape apparatus includes a magnetic tape, a reading element unit and an extraction unit, in which a C-H derived C concentration calculated from a C-H peak area ratio of C1s spectra obtained by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic analysis performed on the surface of the magnetic layer of the magnetic tape at a photoelectron take-off angle of 10 degrees is equal to or greater than 45 atom %, and the extraction unit performs a waveform equalization process according to a deviation amount between positions of the magnetic tape and the reading element unit, with respect to each reading result for each reading element, to extract data derived from the reading target track from the reading result.

In some implementations, a magnetic sensor may apply an electrical signal across a tunnel barrier layer of a tunnel magnetoresistive (TMR) sensing element. The electrical signal may have a first signal level during a first time period and a second signal level during a second time period. The second signal level may be different from the first signal level. The magnetic sensor may generate an offset-corrected sensor signal based on a sensor signal that results from applying the electrical signal across the tunnel barrier layer of the TMR sensing element.

According to one embodiment, a magnetic head includes a reproducing portion. The reproducing portion includes first to fourth magnetic portions and a stacked body. The third magnetic portion is provided between the first and second magnetic portions. The fourth magnetic portion is provided between the first and second magnetic portions. A second direction from the third magnetic portion toward the fourth magnetic portion crosses a first direction from the first magnetic portion toward the second magnetic portion. The stacked body is provided between the first and second magnetic portions in the first direction and between the third and fourth magnetic portions in the second direction. The stacked body includes a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer provided between the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic portion in the first direction, and an intermediate layer provided between the first and second magnetic layers in the first direction.