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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2008
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2005
Applicants:
Mark A. Church, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Wipul Pemsiri Jayasekara, San Jose, CA (US);
Howard Gordon Zolla, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Mark A. Church, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Wipul Pemsiri Jayasekara, San Jose, CA (US);
Howard Gordon Zolla, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/127 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for reducing noise in a lapping guide. Selected portions of a magnetoresistive device wafer are bombarded with ions such that a magnetoresistive effect of lapping guides is reduced. The device is lapped, using the lapping guides to measure an extent of the lapping.