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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7544397 | Recording media having protective overcoats of highly tetrahedral amorphous carbon and methods for their production The invention provides systems and methods for the deposition of an improved diamond-like carbon material, particularly for the production of magnetic recording media. The diamond-like carbon material of the present invention is highly tetrahedral, that is, it featu... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7504135 | Method of fabricating a manganese diffusion barrier A method of fabricating a diffusion barrier using a gas cluster ion beam apparatus is disclosed. The method includes generating a metal-organic gas that includes a metal-organic compound that includes an element of cobalt (Co) or cobalt and iron (CoFe). The metal-or... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7374642 | Treatment process for improving the mechanical, catalytic, chemical, and biological activity of surfaces and articles treated therewith A continuous, uninterrupted two-step treatment process capable of forming nanometer scale physical structures on the surface of articles fabricated from metallic, ceramic, glass, or plastic materials, and then depositing a thin conformal coating on the nanostructure... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7354629 | Method of forming a protective film and a magnetic recording medium having a protective film formed by the method A method of forming a protective film that restrains gas adsorption while preserving durability and corrosion resistance of a plasma CVD carbon film is disclosed. A protective film of a slide-resistant member is deposited by means of a plasma CVD method using a raw ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7334325 | Apparatus and method for improving coupling across plane discontinuities on circuit boards The invention relates to an apparatus and method for improving coupling across plane discontinuities on circuit boards. A circuit board includes a discontinuity, e.g., a split, slot, or cutout, formed on a voltage reference plane. A conductive layer overlies the dis... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7326445 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing ultra fine three-dimensional structure A method is adopted for deposition technology using a focused ion beam device, characterized by enabling structures to be formed by using phenanthrene as a source gas and using ions of gallium or gold, silicon or beryllium etc. of energies of 5 to 100 keV from a liq... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7300703 | Heat-stabilised poly(ethylene naphthalate) film for flexible electronic and opto-electronic devices The use of a heat-stabilized, heat-set oriented film comprising poly(ethylene naphthalate) as a substrate in, or in the manufacture of, an electronic or opto-electronic device containing a conjugated conductive polymer, wherein said film has a shrinkage at 30 mins a... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7294367 | Biological laser printing via indirect photon-biomaterial interactions A method of laser forward transfer is disclosed. Photon energy is directed through a photon-transparent support and absorbed by an interlayer coated thereon. The energized interlayer causes the transfer of a biological material coated thereon across a gap and onto a... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7279732 | Enhanced atomic layer deposition A method of enhanced atomic layer deposition is described. In an embodiment, the enhancement is the use of plasma. Plasma begins prior to flowing a second precursor into the chamber. The second precursor reacts with a prior precursor to deposit a layer on the substr... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7189437 | Mobile plating system and method An exemplary method for using a mobile plating system is provided that includes locating the mobile plating system at a desired location for plating, positioning an external vacuum pump from an interior position of a mobile storage volume of the mobile plasma platin... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7179508 | Conducting polymer films and method of manufacturing the same by surface polymerization using ion-assisted deposition Conducting polymers having improved optical properties, and a method of manufacturing the conducting polymers, are disclosed. The conducting polymers are prepared by a process wherein organic ions and neutral oligomers are deposited simultaneously on a substrate sur... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7172790 | Method of producing powder with composite grains and the device for carrying out said method A method of producing powder formed of composite grains comprising a kernel and one or more surface layers. The inventive method comprises the following steps: mixing the grain kernels with a plasmochemical treatment gas; making said kernel/treatment gas mixture flo... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7141319 | Method for processing the surface of an insulating article, printer head and substrate for recording medium A surface processing method for processing the surface of an insulating article in which an ion-implanted surface-modified layer is effectively formed on the article 2. In surface processing the article 2 of an insulating material, an electrically cond... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7125587 | Ion beam for enhancing optical properties of materials A system and method to expose a material to an ion beam during a continuous material production process may include a vacuum fixture to form the ion beam and a slit in the fixture to allow at least a portion of the ion beam to exit the fixture through the slit. The ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7101593 | Method for producing a disk-shaped substrate and method for producing an optical disk A method for producing a disk-shaped substrate 10 used for producing an optical disk includes: (a) forming a protective layer 12a that is larger in area than the disk-shaped substrate 10 on a surface of a transparent plate 11a | 09/05/2006 |
| 7077935 | Oand HO barrier material O2 and H2O barrier materials suitable for the protection of LCDs and flexible OLEDs are fabricated on a polymer substrate using dense inorganic barrier layers. A polymer surface having a low surface roughness has an inorganic layer of aluminum ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7045175 | Magnetic recording medium and method for manufacturing the same A method for manufacturing a magnetic recording medium includes forming a first protective layer of first material over a magnetic film provided on a substrate. The first protective layer has a thickness of about 0.2 nm to about 2 nm. A second protective layer of se... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7026635 | Particle beam processing apparatus and materials treatable using the apparatus Methods, and materials made by the methods, are provided herein for treating materials with a particle beam processing device. According to one illustrative embodiment, a method for treating a material with a particle beam processing device is provided that includes... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7022611 | Plasma in-situ treatment of chemically amplified resist A method for creating semiconductor devices by etching a layer over a wafer is provided. A photoresist layer is provided on a wafer. The photoresist layer is patterned. The wafer is placed in a process chamber. The photoresist is hardened by providing a hardening pl... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7015640 | Diffusion barrier coatings having graded compositions and devices incorporating the same A composite article comprises a substrate having at least a substrate surface and a graded-composition coating disposed on a substrate surface. The composition of the coating material varies substantially continuously across its thickness. The coating reduces the tr... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7008501 | Sterilisable composite film for packaging purposes The process for preparing a composite film for packaging purposes, that includes coextruding polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and polyethylene-2, 6-naphthalate (PEN) to form a film of polyethylene-2,6-naphthalate. On at least one of the at least one PEN-coated side,... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6967154 | Enhanced atomic layer deposition A method of enhanced atomic layer deposition is described. In an embodiment, the enhancement is the use of plasma. Plasma begins prior to flowing a second precursor into the chamber. The second precursor reacts with a prior precursor to deposit a layer on the substr... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6935618 | Valve component with multiple surface layers A sliding component, particularly a disk valve plate. The sliding component includes a multi-layer surface structure comprising a strengthening layer harder than the substrate material, and an amorphous diamond top layer. ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6905582 | Configurable vacuum system and method An exemplary configurable vacuum system is provided for use in coating or plating that provides the capability and versatility to handle substrates of significantly different shapes and sizes. The configurable vacuum system includes a vacuum table assembly, a mechan... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6878418 | Method for making zone-bonded lubricant layer for magnetic hard discs A system and method for improving the durability and reliability of recording media used in hard drives is disclosed. A protective overcoat made by depositing a diamond like carbon (DLC) layer over a magnetic layer and then depleting a portion of the DLC protective ... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6689425 | Nitrogen-doped hydrogenated carbon films by ion beam deposition Ion beam-deposited, nitrogen-doped C:H films having substantially lower resistivities than undoped ion beam-deposited C:H films and suitable for use as hard, abrasion-resistant overcoat layers for magnetic recording media, such as hard disks, are formed b... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6660340 | Diamond-like carbon film with enhanced adhesion A method and apparatus for enhancing the adhesion of a diamond-like carbon (DLC) film to a substrate and for producing a strongly adhered DLC film on a substrate. The adhesion is enhanced by ion beam pre-processing of the substrate prior to DLC film forma... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6632483 | Ion gun deposition and alignment for liquid-crystal applications The present invention includes a method of forming an aligned film on a substrate. The film is deposited and aligned in a single step by a method comprising the step of bombarding a substrate with an ion beam at a designated incident angle to simultaneous... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6627320 | Method for producing composition for vapor deposition, composition for vapor deposition, and method for producing optical element with antireflection film A method for producing a composition for vapor deposition comprising sintering a vapor source mixture prepared by mixing vapor sources that contain titanium dioxide and niobium pentoxide. The method is capable of forming a high-refraction layer even in lo... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6565913 | Non-irritating antimicrobial coatings and process for preparing same An adherent antimicrobial coating and method of making same comprising hydrogenated amorphous carbon and a dispersion of antimicrobial metal ions adapted to maintain a therapeutically effective zone of inhibition.... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6555182 | Surface hardened resins for disk substrates, methods of manufacture thereof and production devices for the manufacture thereof A surface hardening method for resins and a surface hardened resin, capable of reforming the surface of a plastic disk substrate at low energy in a short time, and a production device of such a resin is disclosed. The formation of an ion-implanted layer 1... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6551653 | Metalized polyolefin film This invention relates to a process for metalizing polyolefin film in which at least one outermost layer of the unmetalized polyolefin film has at least about 90% cycloolefin polymer that has not been subjected to a process for increasing surface tension ... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6517687 | Ultraviolet filters with enhanced weatherability and method of making An ultraviolet radiation absorbing layer formed over a polymeric substrate is disclosed herein. The layer is a doped metal oxide coating. The layer exhibits excellent weatherability and UV absorbing properties. The layer is preferably deposited by arc pla... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6495224 | Functionally enhanced protective shrink-wrap coverings and methods for their manufacture and use Functionally enhanced shrink-wrap materials having protective coatings composed of mixtures of a water-compatibilized, modified polyolefin resins (Component A) and a mixture of a water-compatibilized acrylic resin (Component B) and a water-compatibilized ... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6458430 | Pretreatment process for plasma immersion ion implantation A method for use with a plasma immersion ion implantations systems wherein a substrate W having a patterned photoresist P thereon is implanted. The method includes ionizing a first gas in a chamber 12 to produce electrically inactive ions and reacting the... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6447887 | Electrostrictive and piezoelectric thin film assemblies and method of fabrication therefor An electrostatic self-assembly method of fabricating electrostrictive and piezoelectric thin film assemblies not only provides a thinner film than is attainable by conventional methods, but provides excellent molecular-level uniformity and precise structu... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6447849 | Method for processing the surface of an insulating article A surface processing method for processing the surface of an insulating article in which an ion-implanted surface-modified layer is effectively formed on the article 2. In surface processing the article 2 of an insulating material, an electrically conduct... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6410101 | Method for scrubbing and passivating a surface of a field emission display A method for scrubbing and passivating an anode plate (100) of a field emission display (120) includes the steps of providing a scrubbing passivation material (127); imparting to scrubbing passivation material (127) an energy selected to cause removal of ... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6403167 | Method for surface modification of 3-dimensional bulk polymers A method for surface modification of 3-dimensional bulk polymers is provided to improve surface properties and surface conductivity of 3-dimensional bulk polymers by using plasma source ion implantation technique. The plasma source ion implantation techni... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6383573 | Process for manufacturing coated plastic body A process is provided for producing coated synthetic bodies during which, before the coating, the surface to be coated is subjected to a pretreatment in an excited gas atmosphere. The surface is then coated. The gas atmosphere is predominantly formed of a... | 05/07/2002 |
