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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 1977
Filed:
Feb. 26, 1976
Norman George Ainslie, Croton-on-Hudson, NY (US);
Robert Douglas Hempstead, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Swie-In Tan, Bedford Hills, NY (US);
Erich Philipp Valstyn, Los Gatos, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Iron-silicon is sputtered onto a substrate to be used for a magnetic recording head from a target containing 4% to 7% of silicon with a substrate bias between -2.5 and -60 volts, anode-cathode spacing of about 1/2 to about 2 inches, a deposition rate of greater than 150A/min, a substrate temperature above 250.degree. C, an argon pressure above 10 microns, and a single film thickness greater than 0.4 micron, a laminated film thickness greater than 0.05 micron, and R.F. input power above 8 watts/in.sup.2.