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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2012
Applicants:
Bernard Stenson, Limerick, IE;
Stephen O'brien, Limerick, IE;
Matthew Thomas Canty, Limerick, IE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Analog Devices, Inc., Norwood, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/09 (2006.01); G01R 33/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/096 (2013.01); G01R 33/0052 (2013.01); Y10T 29/49117 (2015.01);
Abstract
A method of manufacture of a sensor, the method comprising, in a first fabrication facility, forming one or more components of the sensor on a substrate; and in a second fabrication facility depositing a sensor layer, such as a magnetoresistive sensor, onto the substrate or over the one or more components. Otherwise contaminating effects of depositing magnetoresistive materials can thus be confined to the second fabrication facility, permitting more advanced fabrication equipment and techniques to be employed in the first fabrication facility.