Thin Film Depositon System for Storage Device Prototyping

该合同将为购买一种薄膜物理气相沉积系统提供资金，该系统将用于处理计算机存储器存储光盘的薄膜磁记录磁头。该设备将安装在卡耐基梅隆大学数据存储系统中心工程研究中心的100级洁净室中。它将提高中心的研究能力，并加强中心研究人员与磁性记录工业界之间的持续合作。该中心有21个可合作的工业伙伴。该设备将用于加工氮化铁合金薄膜、合成反铁磁体、毗邻永磁体以及巨磁阻材料。在某些情况下，这些材料将与半导体材料集成，以生产用于磁性读写头的微机电执行器系统。此外，还提供资金支持将于1998/9年度在中心开展的技术学校实习计划。

9813977 Kryder This award will provide funding for the purchase of a thin-film physical vapor deposition system to be used to process thin-film magnetic recording heads for comnputer memory storage discs. The equipment will be installed in the Data Storage Systems Center Engineering Research Center at the Carnegie Mellon University in a class 100 clean room. It will enhance the research capabilities of the Center and the ongoing collabortion between the researchers at the center and the magnetic recording industrial community. The Center has twenty one industrial partners with whom to collaborate. The equipment will be used to process thin films of iron nitride alloys, synthetic antiferromagnets, abutted permanent magnets, as well as giant magnetoresistive materials. These materials will be integrated with semiconductor materials in some cases to produce microelectromechanical actuator systems for magnetic read and write heads. In addition funding is provided for the support of a Technical School Internship Program to be conducted at the Center during 1998/9.