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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2011
Roger L. Hipwell, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Tanya J. Snyder, Edina, MN (US);
Scott E. Olson, Eagan, MN (US);
Edward C. Gage, Lakeville, MN (US);
Roger L. Hipwell, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Tanya J. Snyder, Edina, MN (US);
Scott E. Olson, Eagan, MN (US);
Edward C. Gage, Lakeville, MN (US);
Seagate Technology LLC, Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus includes a crystalline substrate. A cleaving guide on the substrate is positioned over a cleave plane of the crystalline substrate and positioned in a known location with respect to a feature of an electronic device on the substrate. Cleaving of the substrate along the cleave plane changes a physical characteristic of the cleaving guide and measurement of the physical characteristic provides a parameter representative of the relative position of the cleave plane and the cleaving guide.