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Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2018

Filed:

Jul. 18, 2016
Applicant:

Seagate Technology Llc, Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Kurtis Dean Loken, Bloomington, MN (US);

Andrew Habermas, Bloomington, MN (US);

Assignee:

Seagate Technology LLC, Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 11/24 (2006.01); G01B 11/30 (2006.01); H01L 21/78 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 11/2441 (2013.01); G01B 11/306 (2013.01); H01L 21/78 (2013.01);
Abstract

Measuring surface features of a plurality of sliders including capturing an image of a surface of a slider bar using a large aperture interferometer, where the slider bar includes at least one slider of the plurality of sliders, and where the image includes surface height data for the slider bar surface and the included at least one slider. A bar height map is created of the slider bar based upon the surface height data of the captured image. Individual slider surfaces having individual slider height maps are identified, based at least in part of the number of sliders included on the slider bar.


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