Sae Magnetics (h.k.) Limited

Heng Qiao

HongTao Ma

Yu Ding

Hongxin Fang

Baohua Chen

Kunihiro Ueda

Hong Xin Fang

Xiao Feng Qiao

Yong Zhu

A method for forming micro-texture on an air bearing surface of a magnetic read/write slider, includes: positioning sliders arranged in arrays on a tray, each slider having a pole tip facing upward; loading the tray into a processing chamber, which is then evacuated to a preset pressure; and introducing a processing gas containing oxygen into the processing chamber; exposing the sliders to etch the surface of the slider so as to form a clear two-step structure thereon.

Methods for forming micro-texture on an air bearing surface of a magnetic read/write slider and a magnetic read/write slider with micro-texture

A method for forming micro-texture on ABS of a slider, includes steps of: positioning sliders arranged in arrays on a tray, each slider having a pole tip facing upward; loading the tray into a processing chamber, and evacuating the processing chamber to a preset pressure; introducing a mixture gas of inert gas and hydrocarbon gas into the processing chamber, and ionizing the mixture gas to produce ion beams; exposing the sliders to the ion beam for etching so as to form micro-texture with two-step structure on the ABS of the slider. The invention also discloses a method of manufacturing a slider having micro-texture.

Slider with micro-texture and method for forming the same

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