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5997698 Process for fabricating soft magnetic thin films  
An Fe--Zr--N base thin film composed of a metal nitride is formed by reactive sputtering. At the reactive sputtering step, the stress of the thin film is controlled by causing relative movement of...
5993617 Functional product  
A functional product having a transparent oxide layer and a silver layer alternately laminated on a transparent substrate in a total number of (2n+1) layers, where n≥1, wherein an oxide film...
5993616 Method for producing a magneto-optical recording medium  
This invention provides a method for producing a magneto-optical recording medium with a laminated film composed of a plurality of magnetic layers made of alloys of rare earth metals-transition...
5989395 Ferroelectric thin film and method of manufacturing the same  
A ferroelectric thin film includes lead titanate including La and at least an element which forms a six-coordinate bond with oxygen atoms and which is selected from the group consisting of Mg and...
5985105 Method of sputtering protective overcoats with improved corrosion resistance  
A protective overcoat with improved corrosion resistance is sputter deposited on a magnetic thin film medium to effectively cover and seal the side walls of high aspect ratio roughness features....
5985104 Sputtered mask defined with highly selective side wall chemical etching  
An improved process is provided for making a milling mask for milling notches in a first pole piece of a write head. The making of the milling mask involves two process steps, namely: (1) sputter...
5981049 Coated tool and method of manufacturing the same  
A coated tool includes a base material and a wear-resistant coating film formed on the base material. The composition of the wear-resistant coating film is expressed as (Ti x ,Al y ,V z )(C u ,N v...
5981387 Method for forming silicide film in semiconductor device  
Disclosed is a method for forming a silicide film on bit lines or word lines in a semiconductor device. The method includes the steps of: placing a substrate within a reacting chamber, the...
5976326 Method of sputtering selected oxides and nitrides for forming magnetic media  
A Co--Pt based magnetic alloy which has been sputtered with an oxide or nitride of a primary constituent of the magnetic layer, e.g., CoO below about 10 at. %, provides improved coercivity,...
5972179 Silicon IC contacts using composite TiN barrier layer  
The specification describes a composite TiN barrier layer structure formed by depositing a first TiN layer by CVD to obtain good step coverage, followed by a second TiN layer formed by PVD to...
5972178 Continuous process for forming improved titanium nitride barrier layers  
A continuous process for the deposition of robust titanium-containing barrier layers comprises sputtering in a single substrate sputtering chamber a first layer of titanium, sputtering a layer of...
5972527 Transparent electrically conductive layer, electrically conductive transparent substrate and electrically conductive material  
A transparent electrically conductive layer having practically sufficient electrical conductivity and light transmittance and having excellent resistance to moist heat and etching properties, and...
5968673 Solid electrolyte thin film and method for producing the same  
The present invention relates to a solid electrolyte thin film and a manufacturing method for the same. The solid electrolyte thin film of the present invention comprises yttrium stabilized...
5968326 Composite inorganic-polymer thin film cation-selective membrane, method of fabricating same and applications  
A composite membrane is disclosed fabricated by depositing an inorganic ion-conducting thin film on a cation-selective organic polymer membrane substrate using Pulse Laser Deposition (PLD) or...
5961791 Process for fabricating a semiconductor device  
A via 42 is formed in an ILD layer 40 of a semiconductor device 30, using an etch chemistry which is highly selective to an underlying transition metal oxy-nitride film 38. In one form, film 38 is...
5958508 Process for forming a semiconductor device  
A metal-semiconductor layer (26) is formed over an insulating layer (20) such that the metal-semiconductor layer (26) is graded to have varying amounts of the semiconductor and metal throughout the...
5954927 Method of manufacturing magnetic recording medium  
A method of manufacturing a magnetic recording medium by using an in-line sputtering apparatus to successively form, on a substrate, at least one underlying layer, a first magnetic CoPt-based film,...
5952086 Titanium target for sputtering and method of manufacturing same  
A titanium target for sputtering high in film making efficiency in a contact hole. The crystallization on the target face is caused to be orientated so that the X-ray diffraction strength of the...
5948233 Method of manufacturing an electric component which can be mounted on the surface of a printed circuit board  
Electric component which can be mounted on the surface of a printed circuit board as well as a method of manufacturing such components. The invention relates to an electric component (surface...
5948216 Method for making thin film tantalum oxide layers with enhanced dielectric properties and capacitors employing such layers  
The present applicants have discovered a method for making thin films comprising tantalum oxide that enhances the dielectric constant with or without TiO 2 doping. Specifically, applicants have...
5944963 Method of coating a substrate with a SiC.sub.x film  
The invention provides a silicon carbide sputtering target comprising non-stoichiometric silicon carbide, SiC x , where x is the molar ratio of carbon to silicon and x is greater than about 1.1 but...
5942089 Method for sputtering compounds on a substrate  
A method and apparatus for monitoring and controlling deposition of metal, insulating compounds or other compounds on a substrate by sputtering techniques includes maintaining pulsed, constant,...
5942090 Methods of producing a laminate  
A method for forming an oxide film on a substrate by a sputtering process using a target comprising a metal as the main component, wherein sputtering is carried out in an atmosphere which contains...
5938897 Method of manufacturing phase-shifting photomask blank  
A phase-shifting photomask blank is made by sputtering a target of molybdenum silicide with a sputtering gas to which nitric monoxide is added in a ratio of 2.65-6.47% by volume. A nitrided-oxide...
5922177 Magneto-optical recording medium and producing method thereof  
A method to produce a magneto-optical recording medium which includes a readout layer having in-plane magnetization at room temperature and in which a transition occurs from in-plane magnetization...
5916423 P1 notched write head with minimum overmilled p1 and p2  
A magnetic head is provided which has first and second notches in a first pole piece layer adjacent first and second corners at the base of a gap layer wherein the gap layer does not undercut a...
5916456 Diamond treatment for passivating stress surface defects  
A surface of a diamond, particularly a diamond window, is treated by depositing a layer of a carbide-forming metal such as titanium, on the surface and thereafter removing the layer. The treatment...
5914152 Magnetic recording medium and process for making same  
A magnetic recording medium comprised of (i) a non-magnetic substrate such as glass or carbon, (ii) a silicon layer preferably having a thickness of about 20-3,000 angstroms, formed on the...
5911858 Method for high-precision multi-layered thin film deposition for deep and extreme ultraviolet mirrors  
A method for coating (flat or non-flat) optical substrates with high-reflectivity multi-layer coatings for use at Deep Ultra-Violet ("DUV") and Extreme Ultra-Violet ("EUV") wavelengths. The method...
RE36224 Microwave plasma processing process and apparatus  
A microwave plasma processing process and apparatus useful in the fabrication of integrated circuit (IC) or similar semiconductor devices, wherein the object or material to be processed, such as a...
5904996 Method of manufacturing a magnetic field sensor  
A method of manufacturing a magnetic field sensor having a stacked structure of: an exchange-biasing layer (2) comprising nickel oxide on a substrate (1) and a magnetic layer (3) which is...
5900324 Magnetic recording media, methods for producing the same and magnetic recorders  
Disclosed are magnetic recording media comprising, on a substrate, two or more CrPt based magnetic layers and one or more CrMo based non-magnetic spacer layers between the magnetic layers and...
5897751 Method of fabricating boron containing coatings  
Hard coatings are fabricated from boron nitride, cubic boron nitride, and multilayer boron/cubic boron nitride, and the fabrication thereof involves magnetron sputtering in a selected atmosphere....
5897752 Wafer bias ring in a sustained self-sputtering reactor  
A plasma reactor for physical vapor deposition (PVD), also known as sputtering, which is adapted so that the atomic species sputtered from the target can self-sustain the plasma without the need of...
5885425 Method for selective material deposition on one side of raised or recessed features  
An apparatus and method provide deposition on a surface by angled sputtering using a collimation grid having angled vanes which limit the distribution of trajectories of particles in at least one...
5876684 Methods and apparati for producing fullerenes  
Fullerenes are synthesized by subjecting carbon in the form of particulates or as the carbon of a liquid or gaseous hydrocarbon, that can be continuously fed to a variety of intense,...
5876861 Sputter-deposited nickel layer  
Disclosed is a nickel layer formed on a substrate by sputtering, in which nickel layer a percent ratio of an X-ray diffraction peak intensity of the (200) plane of the nickel layer to that of the...
5873983 Method for minimizing substrate to clamp sticking during thermal processing of thermally flowable layers  
A method for forming and thermally processing upon a substrate a low melting temperature metal containing conductor layer. There is first provided a substrate. The substrate is fixtured within a...
5868910 Giant magnetoresistant single film alloys  
A single layer film is deposited onto a substrate at room temperature from two sources, one source being a magnetic material, the other being a non-magnetic or weakly-magnetic material. The film is...
5866263 Adsorbent lid construction  
An absorbent lid or cover for a hermetic enclosure comprises a coating applied via sputtering to at least a portion of at least one surface of the lid and consisting of at least one elemental metal...
5863661 Method of enhancing the c-axis perpendicular orientation of barium hexaferrite thin films and barium hexaferrite thin film recording media produced thereby  
A method of making c-axis perpendicularly oriented barium hexaferrite thin films by the crystallization of amorphous barium hexaferrite on a platinum underlayer is provided. Using a thin underlayer...
5858181 Physical vapor deposition of titanium nitride on a nonconductive substrate  
A process for physical vapor deposition of a refractory coating such as titanium nitride on a nonconductive substrate such as a ceramic substrate and the coated substrate produced thereby. The...
5851363 Multilayer film materials system  
Pt/Co multilayer materials systems having a thin metal interlayer possess superior room temperature coercivity, a square polar Kerr hysteresis loop, sufficient polar Kerr rotation, and are suitable...
5851938 Glass material variable in volume by irradiation with ultraviolet light  
A glass material variable in volume by irradiation with ultraviolet light has a GeO 2 --SiO 2 glass composition having a GeO 2 content of 0.5 to 90 mol %, and is in the form of a thin film...
5852303 Amorphous matrices having dispersed cesium  
A composition of matter in the form of an amorphous matrix having cesium dispersed therein is disclosed. The composition is capable of cold cathode emission, thus emitting electrons at wide range...
5851364 Method for forming aluminum contacts  
A process for making an aluminum contact comprising sputter depositing in a contact opening in a semiconductor substrate a first layer of titanium, forming a thin layer of titanium oxide thereover,...
5851366 Adhering metal to glass  
A method of improving adherence of a metal film deposited directly on a silicate glass substrate for a display panel. The method comprises chemically treating the surface of the glass to alter its...
5849163 Process for formation of epitaxial film  
A process for forming an epitaxial film on a biased substrate by sputtering a target to which a bias voltage and a plasma-generating high-frequency power are applied, wherein the film formation is...
5837332 Method and apparatus for preparing crystal thin films by using a surface acoustic wave  
A method and apparatus for preparing thin films, a device, an electronic and magnetic apparatus, an information recording and reproducing apparatus, an information processing apparatus and a...
5837357 Magnetic recording medium having a carbon protective layer and method for manufacturing the same  
A magnetic recording medium is provided that includes a non-magnetic base, a magnetic layer laminated on a non-magnetic base, a carbon protective layer containing hydrogen and laminated on the...