Provided are a magnetic transducer capable of increasing a resistance
change and obtaining an appropriate coercive force, a thin film magnetic
head, a method of manufacturing a magnetic transducer and a method of
manufacturing a thin film magnetic head.A stack, a spin valve film has a
stacked structure comprising a first soft magnetic layer, a second soft
magnetic layer, a nonmagnetic metal layer, a ferromagnetic layer, an
antiferromagnetic layer and a protective layer which are stacked in
sequence on an underlying layer. Electrical resistance is changed in
accordance with a relative angle between the orientation of magnetization
of the ferromagnetic layer and the orientation of magnetization of the
first and second soft magnetic layers. A soft magnetic interlayer having
magnetism and the electrical resistance higher than the electrical
resistance of the first soft magnetic layer is formed in the first soft
magnetic layer. When a current flows through the stack, electrons are
reflected by the surface of the soft magnetic interlayer and thus a path
for the electrons is narrowed. Therefore, a rate of resistance change is
increased.