Seagate Technology Incorporated

Christopher John Cote

Declan Macken

Ladislav Rudolf Pust

David Chris Seets

Vee Sochivy Kong

Chang Xie

Karen Virginia Rud

A method of depositing material onto a base portion of a wafer is disclosed. The method includes forming a bevel into a portion of a surface of the base portion of the wafer and depositing a first layer of conductive material onto the beveled portion of the base portion so that part of the first layer includes a wedge shape above the surface of the base portion. A second layer of conductive material is deposited onto the base portion including the portion of the base portion onto which the first layer of material is deposited.

Self-aligned bevels for write poles

A transducing head formed upon a slider has an air bearing surface, a top magnetic pole, a shared magnetic pole, a write via, and a shared pole extension. The write via is positioned opposite the air bearing surface and extends between the top magnetic pole and the shared magnetic pole. The shared pole extension is positioned adjacent the air bearing surface and extends from the shared magnetic pole toward the top magnetic pole. The shared pole extension is separated from the top magnetic pole by a write gap. The shared pole extension is formed of a multilayer having a layer of a first material having a high magnetic moment and a layer a second material having a coefficient of thermal expansion substantially similar to a coefficient of thermal expansion of the slider material.

Bilayer shared pole extension for reduced thermal pole tip protrusion

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Eden Prairie, MN, United States of America

Christopher John Cote