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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 2004
Filed:
May. 13, 2002
James A. Hagan, Rochester, MN (US);
Ullal Vasant Nayak, San Jose, CA (US);
Janice Blue Ostrom, Mazeppa, MN (US);
Douglas Howard Piltingsrud, Eyota, MN (US);
Douglas A. Kuchta, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for texturing substrate surfaces and a substrate product, such as for computer disk drives. Microbump textured substrates are produced having a Rp value of about 20-200 Å and a ratio of Rmax:Rp of about 1.4 or less. In an exemplary embodiment, a microbump textured substrate is produced having colloidal particles on a surface thereof at a density of at least about 25 particles per 25 &mgr;m , wherein the surface topography includes a Rp value of about 20-200 Å, a micro-roughness Rq of about 10 Å or less, and a ratio of Rmax:Rp of about 1.4 or less. An exemplary method includes first providing a substrate surface having a surface micro-roughness Rq of about 10 Å or less and depositing colloidal particles on the surface to provide a Rp value of about 20-200 Å and a ratio of Rmax:Rp of about 1.4 or less. In a further exemplary embodiment, the method increases the micro-roughness Rq, but to a value that is still less than about 10 Å with Rmax:Rp still of about 1.4 or less.