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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 1997
Filed:
Jun. 05, 1995
Ryuji Sugita, Hirakata, JP;
Kiyokazu Tohma, Hirakata, JP;
Tatsuaki Ishida, Sakai, JP;
Kazunari Yoshimoto, Kyoto, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka-fu, JP;
Abstract
A thin film magnetic recording medium is manufactured with vacuum deposition or sputtering technique. One or more reflectors are provided between the substrate and an evaporation source around a path through which evaporated atoms travel onto a substrate. When a thin film is deposited on a substrate, the one or more reflectors are heated above a melting point of an evaporation material to reflect evaporated atoms arriving them. Thus, atoms reflected by the one or more reflectors also contribute to deposition of a thin film as well as evaporated atoms arriving directly from the evaporation source, and deposition efficiency is improved. Such a reflector is also used to limit a boundary or the path through which evaporated atoms travel onto a substrate. Then, a range of incident angles of evaporated atoms onto the substrate is kept the same for a long time on deposition, and characteristics of the thin film are stable.