A GMR sensor is disclosed for sensing magnetically recorded information on a data storage medium. The sensor includes a ferromagnetic free layer and a ferromagnetic pinned layer sandwiching an electrically conductive spacer layer. An engineered overlayer is formed on the free layer to decrease free layer magnetic thickness without reducing physical thickness.

 
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