Patent ID: 11935567
Assignee: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC C  G  H | IPC C  G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
forming a metal layer on a metal seed layer, the metal layer comprising a platinum group metal and having a structure with either no grain boundaries or coherent grain boundaries only, the metal seed layer formed on a carrier wafer, wherein the metal layer is formed with a predetermined crystalline orientation relative to the carrier wafer;
forming a first bonding layer on the metal layer;
forming a second bonding layer on a dielectric layer of a target substrate, the target substrate comprising one or more recording head subassemblies; and
flipping and joining the carrier wafer with the target substrate such that the first and second bonding layers are bonded and the metal layer is integrated with the recording head as a near-field transducer, wherein joining the carrier wafer with the target substrate comprises rotating the carrier wafer relative to the target substrate to provide in-plane orientation control of the near-field transducer relative to an air-bearing surface of the recording head.