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| 8173033 | Manufacturing method of a nano filter structure for breathing In a nano filter structure for breathing and a manufacturing method of the nano filter structure, a semiconductor process technology is used for manufacturing a nano filter structure comprising a top gate, a bottom gate, a plurality of sidewall gates and a plurality... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8163188 | Article with PHEMA lift-off layer and method therefor A method of forming a patterned functional layer on a substrate using a poly(hydroxyethyl methacrylate) lift-off layer is described. The method can be used with substrates that would not tolerate the organic solvents required for processing of known poly(methyl meth... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8017025 | Method for producing air gaps using nanotubes A target layer comprising at least one degradable material is deposited on a support. Nanotubes are then formed on the degradable material of the target layer before deposition of an insulating layer is performed. Degradation of the degradable material and eliminati... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7988871 | Method of lifting off and fabricating array substrate for liquid crystal display device using the same A method of lifting off includes forming a first material layer on a substrate; forming a photoresist pattern including first and second holes and on the first material layer; patterning the first material layer using the photoresist pattern as a patterning mask to ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7914690 | Method for manufacturing metallic panel having ripple luster A method for manufacturing a metallic keypad panel having a ripple luster. First, a metallic thin plate is prepared. The metallic thin plate is subjected to an etching process, thereby forming a plurality of hollowed portions on the metallic thin plate. The hollowed... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7807063 | Solid polymer electrolyte composite membrane comprising plasma etched porous support A solid polymer electrolyte composite membrane and method of manufacturing the same. According to one embodiment, the composite membrane comprises a rigid, non-electrically-conducting support, the support preferably being a sheet of polyimide having a thickness of a... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7597814 | Structure formed with template having nanoscale features A structure is provided that is formed with a template defining a pattern having nanoscale features. The template may be positioned on a substrate and include a resist layer having openings formed therein, where the template is configured to accommodate the controll... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7441323 | Method of aligning components for installation on a head suspension assembly A head suspension for supporting a head slider over a storage media in a dynamic storage device is provided with a head suspension component having a spring metal layer, an electrically conductive layer and a dielectric layer interposed between the metal layer and t... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7437820 | Method of manufacturing a charge plate and orifice plate for continuous ink jet printers A charge plate is fabricated for a continuous ink jet printer print head by applying an etch-stop to one of the opposed sides of an electrically non-conductive substrate. An array of charging channels are etched into the substrate through the etch-stop layer adjacen... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7429733 | Method and sample for radiation microscopy including a particle beam channel formed in the sample source A method and sample for radiation microscopy include a sample source that includes an area of interest, an outer side of a sample formed in the sample source adjacent to the area of interest, an inner side of the sample formed inside the sample source wherein at lea... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7427359 | Self-filling wet electrochemical cells by laser processing A method of preparing high capacity hydrous ruthenium oxide micro-ultracapacitors. A laser direct-write process deposits a film of hydrous ruthenium oxide in sulfuric acid under ambient temperature and atmospheric conditions. A dual laser process combining infrared ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7407596 | Fluxgate sensor integrated in printed circuit board and method for manufacturing the same A fluxgate sensor is integrated in a printed circuit board. The fluxgate sensor has two bar-type (or rectangular-ring shaped) soft magnetic cores to form a closed magnetic path on a printed circuit board and an excitation coil in the form of a metal film is wound ar... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7402254 | Method and structure for producing Z-axis interconnection assembly of printed wiring board elements A method of forming a core for and forming a composite wiring board. The core has an electrically conductive coating on at least one face of a dielectric substrate. At least one opening is formed through the substrate extending from one face to the other and through... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7396475 | Method of forming stepped structures employing imprint lithography The present invention provides a method for forming a stepped structure on a substrate that features transferring, into the substrate, an inverse shape of the stepped structure disposed on the substrate. ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7389576 | Method of manufacturing micro flux gate sensor A method of manufacturing a micro flux gate sensor that has a good electrical connection and can be easily manufactured includes operations of forming a metal pattern, forming a first insulation layer to cover the metal pattern and forming viaholes to expose a certa... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7390745 | Pattern enhancement by crystallographic etching A method for producing predetermined shapes in a crystalline Si-containing material that have substantially uniform straight sides or edges and well-defined inside and outside corners is provided together with the structure that is formed utilizing the method of the... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7386934 | Double layer patterning and technique for milling patterns for a servo recording head Double photolithography is used to produce an under-layer of protective and filtering photoresist over a substrate that will have channels milled with a FIB. Secondary layers are applied with precision on top of the first layer in order to define the precise pattern... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7380332 | Magnetic head coil system and damascene/reactive ion etching method for manufacturing the same A system and method are provided for manufacturing a coil structure for a magnetic head. Initially, an insulating layer is deposited with a photoresist layer deposited on the insulating layer. Moreover, a silicon dielectric layer is deposited on the photoresist laye... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7365020 | Method for etching upper metal of capacitator A method for etching an upper metal film of a capacitor, enables a safe etching of the upper metal film of a capacitor by exploiting an over-etch step. The method for etching the upper metal film of the capacitor includes the steps of forming a lower metal film, a l... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7354520 | Method of manufacturing optical element An optical element comprising at least a plurality of pixels formed on a substrate and partition walls arranged respectively between adjacent pixels is manufactured by a method comprising steps of forming partition walls of a resin composition on a substrate, perfor... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7347951 | Method of manufacturing electronic device A method of manufacturing an electronic device comprises forming a wiring material layer made of aluminum or an aluminum alloy on the surface of an insulating film on a substrate, patterning the wiring material layer by a reactive ion etching treatment with a resist... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7340823 | Methods for forming head suspension assemblies Embodiments include a method for forming a head suspension assembly. A spacer layer is formed in or on a silicon wafer. A transfer film including an opening defining the shape of a slider support membrane is provided, and the opening is filled with a resin material.... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7337529 | Method for forming an electrical interconnect to a spring layer in an integrated lead suspension A method for forming an electrical interconnect to the spring metal layer in an integrated lead suspension or suspension component of the type having a multi-layer structure including a spring metal layer and a conductor layer separated by a dielectric insulator lay... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7334317 | Method of forming magnetoresistive junctions in manufacturing MRAM cells A method of forming a magnetoresistive junction in a process of manufacturing a magnetoresistive memory cell includes providing a semiconductor substrate having at least one via contact layer on a main surface thereof, depositing a layered structure of magnetoresist... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7329363 | Method of forming a hydrophobic coating layer on a surface of a nozzle plate for an ink-jet printhead A method of forming a hydrophobic coating layer on a surface of a nozzle plate for an ink-jet printhead includes preparing a nozzle plate having a nozzle, forming a metal layer on a surface of the nozzle plate, forming a material layer covering the metal layer, sele... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7329366 | Method of polishing implantable medical devices to lower thrombogenecity and increase mechanical stability The present invention relates to a method of polishing an implantable medical device. The method may include positioning an implantable medical device on a support. At least a portion of a surface of the implantable medical device may include a polymer. A fluid may ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7323350 | Method of fabricating thin film calibration features for electron/ion beam image based metrology A method of making and using thin film calibration features is described. To fabricate a calibration standard according to the invention raised features are first formed from an electrically conductive material with a selected atomic number. A conformal thin film la... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7316784 | Method of patterning transparent conductive film, thin film transistor substrate using the same and fabricating method thereof A method of patterning a transparent conductive film adaptive for selectively etching a transparent conductive film without any mask processes, a thin film transistor for a display device using the same and a fabricating method thereof are disclosed. In the method o... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7313857 | Method of manufacturing a magneto-resistive device A method of manufacturing a magneto-resistive device is provided for reducing a degradation in device characteristics due to annealing. The method includes the steps of depositing constituent layers, which make up a magneto-resistive layer on a base, patterning one ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7311852 | Method of plasma etching low-k dielectric materials A semiconductor manufacturing process wherein a low-k dielectric layer is plasma etched with selectivity to an overlying mask layer. The etchant gas can be oxygen-free and include a fluorocarbon reactant, a nitrogen reactant and an optional carrier gas, the fluoroca... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7309641 | Method for rounding bottom corners of trench and shallow trench isolation process A method for rounding the bottom corners of a trench is described. In the method, an etching process is performed using a fluorocarbon compound with at least two carbon atoms, He and O2 as an etching gas to round the bottom corners of the trench. ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7309446 | Methods of manufacturing diamond capsules Capsules and similar objects are made from materials having diamond (sp3) lattice structures, including diamond materials in synthetic crystalline, polycrystalline (ordered or disordered), nanocrystalline and amorphous forms. The capsules generally includ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7299537 | Method of making an integrated inductor An inductor comprises a substrate comprising a semiconductor material, a first dielectric layer over the substrate, a magnetic layer over the first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer over the magnetic layer, and a conductor over the second dielectric layer.... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7300595 | Method for filling concave portions of concavo-convex pattern and method for manufacturing magnetic recording medium A method for filling concave portions of a concavo-convex pattern by which the concave portions of the concavo-convex pattern can be filled to flatten the surface with reliability, and a method for manufacturing a magnetic recording medium by which a magnetic record... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7296337 | Notched trailing shield for perpendicular write head During fabrication of a perpendicular write head in a wafer, at least two sides of a write pole are defined (e.g. by ion milling) while a third side of the write pole is protected by a masking material. At this stage, a material that is to be located in the write ga... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7293345 | Method of manufacturing a thin film magnetic recording head A invention provides a method of manufacturing a thin film magnetic head is provided, capable of forming a magnetic pole layer as easily as possible. By etching a lower insulating layer and the upper insulating layer by RIE using a fluorine-based gas (CF4 | 11/13/2007 |
| 7291278 | Electrode forming method An electrode forming method with an excellent yield, includes: (a) forming an adhesion preventing member having a predetermined pattern on a base member: (b) forming a conductive layer on the base member and the adhesion preventing member; and (c) forming an electro... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7288021 | Chemical-mechanical polishing of metals in an oxidized form The invention provides a method for polishing a substrate comprising a metal in an oxidized form, the method comprising the steps of: (a) providing a substrate comprising a metal in an oxidized form, (b) contacting a portion of the substrate with a chemical-mechanic... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7279428 | Method of preventing photoresist residues A method to prevent photoresist residues formed in an aperture is provided. The method includes using a halogen-containing plasma treatment before the aperture is filled with a photoresist. Due to the halogen-containing plasma treatment, amine components on the side... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280927 | Method and system for providing a linear signal from a mass airflow and/or liquid flow transducer A method and system for providing a linear signal from a flow transducer. A non-linear raw signal can be obtained from a mass flow transducer. An approximated error comprising a discrete sinusoidal function incremented by a variable and selectable omega value can th... | 10/09/2007 |
