Method for use in making a read head

Details Method for use in making a read head Method for use in making a read head

2004-02-17

2008-12-23

Tugbang, A. Dexter (Department: 3729)

Metal working

Method of mechanical manufacture

Electrical device making

C029S603130, C029S603140, C029S831000, C029S846000, C360S326000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07467458

ABSTRACT:
Methods of making a read sensor with a selectively deposited lead layers are disclosed. In one illustrative example, the method includes the acts of forming a plurality of read sensor layers over a wafer; forming a monolayer photoresist to mask the plurality of read sensor layers in a central region; ion milling to remove the unmasked plurality of read sensor layers in side regions to thereby form a read sensor in the central region; depositing longitudinal bias layers in the side regions; and depositing a silicon reactant layer over the longitudinal bias layers in the side regions. After removing the monolayer photoresist, a silicon reduction process and a hydrogen reduction process are sequentially performed for the selective depositions of the lead material. In the silicon reduction process, tungsten hexafluoride (WF6) and argon (Ar) gases are passed over the wafer to thereby selectively deposit a relatively thin W film only on the Si reactant layer in the side regions through the following chemical reaction: 2WF6+3Si→2W+3SiF4. In the hydrogen reduction process, WF6and hydrogen (H2) gases are passed over the wafer to thereby selectively deposit a relatively thick W film only on the W film in the side regions through the following chemical reaction: WF6+3H2→W+6HF.

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