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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2004
Marie-claire Cyrille, San Jose, CA (US);
Wipul Pemsiri Jayasekara, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Mustafa Michael Pinarbasi, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Marie-Claire Cyrille, San Jose, CA (US);
Wipul Pemsiri Jayasekara, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Mustafa Michael Pinarbasi, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Abstract
A method for fabricating a read head for a magnetic disk drive having a read head sensor and a hard bias layer, where the read head has a shaped junction between the read head sensor and the hard bias layer. The method includes providing a layered wafer stack to be shaped. A single- or multi-layered photoresist mask having no undercut is deposited upon the layered wafer stack to be shaped. The layered wafer stack is shaped by the output of a milling source, where the shaping includes partial milling to within a partial milling range to form a shaped junction. A hard bias layer is then deposited which is in contact with the shaped junction of the wafer stack.