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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 16, 2000
Mehrdad M. Moslehi, Los Altos, CA (US);
Shiyuan Cheng, Richardson, TX (US);
Xiangqun Chen, Garland, TX (US);
Cecil J. Davis, Greenville, TX (US);
CVC Products, Inc., Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
An electromagnet having one or more coils wrapped around a plate-shaped core produces a uniaxial magnetic field in the vicinity of a substrate surface for orienting a magnetic film deposited onto the substrate surface. Variations in the magnetic mass of the plate-shaped core or in the magnetic permeability of the core mass are made to reduce angular skew and to improve uniformity of the uniaxial magnetic field. The variations generally involve a reduction in magnetic mass or permeability near a center of the core with respect to a periphery of the core. Cavities of various sizes and shapes but having symmetry with a magnetic axis can be formed in the core for this purpose.