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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 21, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Cathie J Burke, Rochester, NY (US);
Alan D Raisanen, Sodus, NY (US);
Assignee:
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
347 62 ; 298901 ;
Abstract
A thermal ink jet printhead is improved by providing a heater resistor which is mechanically isolated from overlying nitride and tantalum layers by growing a thin buffer oxide layer on the surface of the resistor heater layer. The introduction of the buffer oxide layer permits a thinner nitride layer which, in turn, reduces electrical resistance changes which would otherwise be introduced into the resistor arrays by mechanical stress after the nitride layer is deposited.