ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,118, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Headway Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Near field transducer with template layer for improved reliability" was invented by Weihao Xu (San Jose, Calif.), Shengyuan Wang (San Jose, Calif.) and Dingchuan Xue (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of fabricating a near field transducer (NFT) in a thermally assisted magnetic recording (TAMR) head is disclosed. In some embodiments, the method includes: depositing a dielectric layer and a template layer on a waveguide core; patterning the template layer to form a template; depositing an Au NFT layer; planarizing the Au NFT l...