Patent ID: 9123363
Filing Date: 2015-09-01
Classification: B81C,C09K,C23F,C30B,G03F,G11B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An article of manufacture comprising: an amorphous substrate; and one or more epitaxial crystalline layers attached to the amorphous substrate, the one or more epitaxial crystalline layers including a nonmagnetic template layer directly attached to the amorphous substrate and a magnetic epitaxial layer on the nonmagnetic template layer, wherein the nonmagnetic template layer includes: a first part bonded to the amorphous substrate with trenches patterned therein, a second epitaxial part deposited within the patterned trenches of the first part, and a third epitaxial part deposited over the first part and the second epitaxial part, wherein defects within the second epitaxial part do not propagate to the third epitaxial part, and wherein the magnetic epitaxial layer is deposited on the third epitaxial part of the nonmagnetic template layer, wherein a magnetic moment of the article of manufacture is greater than 2.4 Tesla.