摘要:
Method and apparatus for processing a substrate with a beam of energetic particles. The beam is directed from a source through a rectangular aperture in a shield positioned between the source and substrate to a treatment zone in a plane of substrate movement. Features on the substrate are aligned parallel to a major dimension of the rectangular aperture and the substrate is moved orthogonally to the aperture's major dimension. The beam impinges the substrate through the aperture during movement. The substrate may be periodically rotated by approximately 180° to reorient the features relative to the major dimension of the rectangular aperture. The resulting treatment profile is symmetrical about the sides of the features oriented toward the major dimension of the rectangular aperture.
摘要:
Method and process for fabricating a device structure for a read head of a mass storage device. A polish stop layer formed of a relatively hard material, such as diamond-like carbon, is positioned between a layer stack and a resist mask used to mask regions of the layer stack during ion milling that removes portions of the layer stack to define a read sensor. The resist mask is removed, after the read sensor is defined, by a planarization process, which eliminates the need to lift-off the resist mask with a conventional chemical-based process. An electrical isolation layer of a material, such as Al2O3, is formed on the masked read sensor. In addition or alternatively, the electrical isolation layer may be formed using an atomic layer deposition (ALD) process performed at an elevated temperature that would otherwise hard bake the resist mask.
摘要翻译:制造用于大容量存储装置的读取头的装置结构的方法和工艺。 由相对硬的材料(例如类金刚石碳)形成的抛光停止层位于层叠和抗蚀剂掩模之间,用于在离子铣削期间掩蔽层堆叠的区域,其移除层堆叠的部分以限定读取 传感器。 在通过平坦化处理定义读取传感器之后,去除抗蚀剂掩模,这消除了用常规的基于化学的方法剥离抗蚀剂掩模的需要。 在掩蔽的读取传感器上形成诸如Al 2 O 3 3的材料的电隔离层。 另外或替代地,电隔离层可以使用在否则将硬烘烤抗蚀剂掩模的升高的温度下进行的原子层沉积(ALD)工艺来形成。