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A method and structure for use in depositing thin films which avoids edge-tearing of the films. The structure is a composite comprising a photosensitive layer (photoresist) on the substrate onto which deposition is to occur, and an overlaying masking layer (which is conveniently a metal such as aluminum). Apertures in the photoresist layer and the masking layer expose portions of the substrate. The masking layer acts as a deposition mask which is spaced away from the substrate at a distance equal to the thickness of the underlying photoresist layer. The photoresist layer acts to keep the masking layer in close proximity to the substrate and is patterned through the use of the overlying masking layer as an exposure mask. Recession of the edges of the photoresist layer is achieved by overexposure and subsequent development. In this manner, the masking layer overhangs the photoresist layer, thereby providing an undercut in order to prevent edge-tearing of deposited films.
Abstract:
A superconducting Josephson junction tunnel device having in particular lead alloy electrodes (Pb-In and Pb-In-Sn) and a very precisely defined and dense tunnel barrier comprising an oxide of the lead alloy electrode. Such devices can be thermally cycled between liquid helium temperatures and room temperatures, and provide large tunnelling currents.
Abstract:
997,326. Magnetic storage apparatus. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION. June 26, 1963 [June 29, 1962], No. 25327/63. Heading H3B. [Also in Division HI] A magnetic storage array is manufactured by coating conductive wires with successive layers of wax and a ferrite resin mixture, mounting the wires in parallel alignment in two open frames, orienting the frames so that the wires are orthogonal, pressing the frames together so that the wire coatings adhere, cutting the wires away from the frames after partial curing has taken place and finally sintering the ferrite at higher temperatures. The wax and resin are burnt away during the sintering process, the wax providing a space between the wires and the surrounding ferrite which prevents fracturing of the magnetic material. The co-ordinate wires may be positioned either as shown in Fig. 1A or Fig. 2, the latter arrangement providing a web of ferrite 3 between the wires 4, 5 at each crossing point. Where more than one wire is provided in each co-ordinate at each crossing point, these wires are insulated and twisted together in Fig. 3 (not shown). Depending on the materials used, the suggested temperatures for the process are 25-150‹ C. for partial curing, increasing to 100-150‹ C. to melt the wax coating. The temperature is then raised, firstly to 600‹ C. to remove the resin and plasticizer and then to 900-1400‹ C. to sinter the ferrite. Annealed platinum, palladium, silver or copper may be used for the wires, and the wax coating may be either natural or synthetic such as beeswax, carnauba wax, polyethylene wax or paraffin wax. Other suitable wax-like substances are polyvinyl acetate, polyvinyl chloride and their copolymers. The ferrite resin comprises 40-80% by weight of calcinated ferrite powder, 5-60% of thermosetting resin plus catalyst and 0-30% of plasticizers. Suitable ferrite powders exhibiting the required rectangular hystesis loop are Fe 1 . 83 Mn 1 . 08 Cu. 09 O 4 , Fe 1 . 68 Mn 1 . 25 Cr. 06 Ni. 03 O 4 , Fe 1 . 7 Mn. 6 Mg. 7 O 4 , and Fe 1 . 65 Mn 0 . 95 Cr. 10 Zn. 25 Cu. 02 O 4 . The resins may be epoxy resins, polyester resins, melamine-formaldehyde resins or phenol aldehyde resins. Suitable catalysts for the resins are described, and examples of various viscosity control agents are given such as pine and castor oils, butyl glycidyl ether or a 1: 1 mixture of methyl ethyl ketone and amyl acetate. A modification is described in which rayon fibres are used instead of certain of the wires, the fibres being burnt out by the heat treatment to provide a hollow ferrite structure through which pluralities of metallic conductors are later threaded.
Abstract:
A superconducting Josephson junction tunnel device having in particular lead alloy electrodes (Pb-In and Pb-In-Sn) and a very precisely defined and dense tunnel barrier comprising an oxide of the lead alloy electrode. Such devices can be thermally cycled between liquid helium temperatures and room temperatures, and provide large tunnelling currents.
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1,137,288. Magnetic data-storage apparatus. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP. 10 Nov., 1966 [23 Dec.; 1965], No. 50346/66. Heading H3B. [Also in Divisions D1 and H1] A storage device is produced by forming a layer of green magnetic ferrite around a cylindrical substrate, surrounding this layer with a green non-magnetic ferrite, slicing both ferrites, and sintering the slices. The magnetic ferrite may be Fe 1 . 62 Mn 0 . 80 Cu 0 . 45 Zn 0 . 10 Bi 0 . 02 La 0 . 01 O 4 and may be prepared by ball-milling a mixture of Fe, Cu, Zn and Bi oxides, MnCO 3 , and LaFeO 3 , passing it through a 20-mesh screen, calcining at 650‹ C., remilling, passing it through a 325-mesh screen, and drying. The non-magnetic ferrite may be Fe 1 . 2 Mn 0 . 78 Cu 0 . 3 Zn 0 . 7 Bi 0 . 02 0 4 or Fe 0 . 8 Mn 1 . 48 Cu 0 . 2 Zn 0 . 5 Bi 0 . 02 O 4 . A barrier layer, e.g. of Mn 3 O 4 , Cr 2 O 3 , Mn 3 O 4 + Cr 2 O 3 or Mn 3 O 4 +ZnO, may be provided between the two ferrites. The substrate may be a nylon filament which may be coated with a release agent, e.g. colloidal wax in water, and removed by pulling from one end. The magnetic and barrier layers may be applied by passing a continuous length of the filament through a suspension of the material and then passing it twice through an oven (at 70‹ and 80‹ C., using a nitrocellulose-amyl acetate solution, and at 100‹ and 110‹ C., using an epoxy resin solution); this process is repeated five times and the filament is then passed through an oven (at 85‹ or 125‹ C. resp.) 10 times. The structure may then be similarly coated with the non- magnetic ferrite, and a number of such structures cast in a wax or polyethylene block; the filament is then removed, the block sliced, and the wax melted off by heating to 100- 125‹ C. Alternatively, the structures may be cast in a block of the non-magnetic ferrite, which is dried at 90‹ C. in the mould and then at 100‹ C.; the filament is removed; and the block is then sliced either perpendicular to or along the axes of the cores (in the latter case the two halves are turned through 90 degrees before firing). Firing may be effected in a Ni boat coated with Mn 3 O 4 , initially at 600‹ C. to drive off the binder, and then at 920‹ C. The magnetic layer may have an inner diameter of 3 or 4À5 mils.
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1,023,627. Magnetic storage devices. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION. Oct. 26, 1964 [Nov. 21, 1963], No. 43506/64. Addition to 998,891. Heading H3B. [Also in Division H1] The tubular storage device described in the parent Specification is modified by the use of hole pairs for the conductors B in the form of two parallel slits 18 arranged longitudinally of the tube 12, each conductor B being made of strip material. The tube is formed by a magnetic U-shaped trough 14 and a magnetic closure plate 16, the same or different materials being used. The magnetization characteristic of the magnetic material need not be rectangular.