Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Simens Aktiengesellschaft

Messer Group Gmbh

Air Liquide Deutschland Gmbh

Joachim Hertrampf

Horst Pachonik

Friedhelm Herzog

Alfred Pichler

Thomas BÖCKLER

Holger Hasselbusch

Method for manufacturing terminal contacts for thin-film magnetic heads. The method of manufacturing reinforced terminal contacts for thin-film magnetic heads provides a photolithographic process sequence that allows the technical requirements to be kept as low as possible and that reduces the gold consumption to a minimum. To that end, a copper layer for contact reinforcement fashioned as a tower is electrodeposited in contact windows formed by a photoresistive layer, which is electrodeposited onto an electrically conductive permalloy layer of a substrate before this is completely structured and has been provided with a protective aluminum oxide layer. A gold film required for the attachment of a bonding wire is finally deposited either directly preceding the protection or following the application of the aluminum oxide on the copper layer.

Method for manufacturing terminal contacts for thin-film magnetic heads

Method for manufacturing terminal contacts for thin-film magnetic heads. A photolithographic process sequence is desirable when manufacturing coherent terminal contacts for thin-film magnetic heads that allows the technological complexity to be kept as low as possible taking metrological and mechanical points of view into consideration. To that end, an electrically conductive permalloy layer, buried under a protective aluminum oxide layer, is structured with a metallic mask such that interconnects that temporarily short the magnetic heads having two write/read heads on a substrate element during the photolithographic process execution are brought together at a location which is later parted along a parting line. As a result of the short, the application of an additional, metallic carrier layer as a galvanic underlayment for a gold film is avoided.

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Munich, Germany

Joachim Hertrampf