Western Digital (fremont), Inc.

Headway Technologies, Incorporated

Yining Hu

Ming Zhao

Mohamad Towfik Krounbi

Li He

Jun Liu

Kochan Ju

Jei-Wei Chang

Kroum Stanimirov Stoev

Mark David Thomas

Yi-Chun Liu

Jim Watterston

Yingjian Chen

Francis H Liu

Yong Shen

Yun-Fei Li

Xuehua Wu

Danning Yang

Marcos Moises Lederman

Changhe Shang

Xue Hua Wu

Kenneth Kung

Methods are provided for fabricating an electrical lapping guide, and for using the electrical lapping guide to fabricate a transducer of a magnetic recording head. Additionally, transducers comprising an electrical lapping guide are also provided. Methods of fabricating the electrical lapping guide comprise forming a resistive element proximate to a shield pedestal. Accordingly, the resistive element is both aligned with the shield pedestal in a transverse direction, and closely spaced from the shield pedestal in a longitudinal direction. The resistance of the resistive element correlates well with a throat height of the shield pedestal, and the correlation is utilized in the methods of fabricating the transducer. When a magnetoresistive stripe is uses as a second electrical lapping guide while fabricating the transducer, the two can be used to control a tilt angle in the transverse direction during lapping.

Electrical lapping guide disposed laterally relative to a shield pedestal

A method and system for manufacturing a perpendicular magnetic recording transducer by a process that includes plating is described. The method and system include forming a chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) uniformity structure around a perpendicular magnetic recording pole. The CMP uniformity structure has a height substantially equal to a desired pole height. The method and system also include fabricating an insulator on the CMP uniformity structure and performing a CMP to remove a portion of the insulator. The CMP exposes a portion of the perpendicular magnetic recording pole and planarizes an exposed surface of the perpendicular magnetic recording transducer.

Method for manufacturing a perpendicular magnetic recording transducer

A head including a write element for writing data to a magnetic media, and methods for its production are provided. A write element of the invention includes one or more of a recessed first pole, a heat sink layer, and a shortened yoke length. A method of the invention provides forming an anti-reflective layer before forming a mask layer. During photolithography the anti-reflective layer suppresses undesirable reflections off of features, such as vertical sidewalls, that otherwise limit how closely to such features portions of the mask layer can be formed.

Write element with recessed pole and heat sink layer for ultra-high density writing

A method to fabricate a tunneling magnetoresistive (TMR) read transducer is disclosed. An insulative layer is deposited on a wafer substrate, and a bottom lead is deposited over the insulative layer. A laminated TMR layer, having a plurality of laminates, is deposited over the bottom lead. A TMR sensor having a stripe height is defined in the TMR layer, and a parallel resistor and first and second shunt resistors are also defined in the TMR layer. A top lead is deposited over the TMR sensor. The parallel resistor is electrically connected to the bottom lead and to the top lead. The first shunt resistor is electrically connected to the bottom lead and the wafer substrate, and the second shunt resistor is electrically connected to the top lead and the wafer substrate.

Method to fabricate an ESD resistant tunneling magnetoresistive read transducer

A method for fabricating a magnetic recording head writer. The writer includes a bottom magnetic pole and a write gap formed over the bottom pole and a coil trench formed in the bottom pole. A top magnetic pole is provided as two layers with the first layer including front and back tips with spaced apart walls positioned adjacent the trench bottom defining trench sides. A pole cover layer is included that is made up of a thin layer of insulating material deposited to cover sides and bottom of the coil trench. A bottom coil is formed on the pole cover layer in the bottom of the coil trench and coil insulation is provided between coil elements and adjacent trench walls and covemg the coil. A top coil with insulation is formed over the planarized bottom coil insulation and the top pole second layer is formed over the top coil.

Method of fabricating thin film write heads with a shortened yoke and improved dimension control

Write element with reduced yoke length for ultra-high density writing

Method of fabricating a write element with a reduced yoke length

A writer for magnetic recording heads. The writer includes a bottom magnetic pole and a write gap formed over the bottom pole and a coil trench formed in the bottom pole. A top magnetic pole is provided as two layers with the first layer including front and back tips with spaced apart walls positioned adjacent the trench bottom defining trench sides. A pole cover layer is included that is made up of a thin layer of insulating material deposited to cover the sides and bottom of the coil trench. A bottom coil is formed on the pole cover layer in the bottom of the coil trench and coil insulation is provided between the coil elements and adjacent the trench walls and covering the coil. A top coil with insulation is formed over the planarized bottom coil insulation and the top pole second layer is formed over the top coil.

Thin film recording head with a buried coil providing a shortened yoke and improved dimension control

A method for forming a plated layer. There is first provided a substrate. There is then formed over the substrate a masking frame employed for masking frame plating a masking frame plated layer within the masking frame, where the masking frame is fabricated to provide an overhang of an upper portion of the masking frame spaced further from the substrate with respect to a lower portion of the masking frame spaced closer to the substrate. Finally, there is then plated the masking frame plated layer within the masking frame. The method is useful for forming masking frame plated magnetic pole tip stack layers with enhanced planarity dimensional control within magnetic transducer elements.

Masking frame plating method for forming masking frame plated layer

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Yining Hu