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Cross-tail sensor for cross-tie memory

US4161789A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJul 3, 1978
Grant dateJul 17, 1979
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Expiry dateJul 3, 1998

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11C19/0866
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method of and an apparatus for reading out the information that is stored in a magnetizable layer that is formed of a thin film in which data are stored as inverted Neel wall sections about associated Bloch-lines along a cross-tie wall. The apparatus utilizes a magnetizable layer which is configured into a strip whose two opposing edges are, along its longitudinal axis, formed into mirror-imaged, spaced-apart, repetitive, asymmetrically-shaped patterns which repetitive patterns are formed of successive narrow portions that form wide portions therebetween. The repetitive patterns, when suitable magnetic fields are coupled thereto, form a cross-tie wall along the longitudinal axis of the strip while structuring the cross-ties along the cross-tie wall at the narrow portions and the Bloch-lines along the cross-tie walls and between the adjacent narrow portions. One of the repetitive patterns is configured into a sharp film whose longitudinal axis is transverse the strip's longitudinal axis and whose transverse axis is along the strip's longitudinal axis. The sharp film, in the area extending beyond the strip's two opposing edges, comprises an open flux path film that possesses the ch…

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