IP Library Granted Patent US 10,134,435
Granted Patent B2
US 10,134,435 · App. 14/575,385 · Granted Nov 20, 2018

Carbon film forming apparatus, carbon film forming method, and magnetic recording medium manufacturing method

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Patent No.
US 10,134,435
App. No.
14/575,385
Granted
Nov 20, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

A carbon film forming method, that introduces a raw material gas including carbon into a film forming chamber, ionizes the gas by using an ion source, accelerates the ionized gas, and radiates the ionized gas to a surface of a substrate to form a carbon film on the surface of the substrate, includes forming the carbon film while rotating a first magnet, which is provided on the opposite side of the substrate across a region in which the raw material gas is ionized so as to be eccentric and/or inclined with respect to a central axis connecting the center of the ion source and a position corresponding to the center of the substrate held by the holder, in a circumferential direction.

Claims (12)

1. A carbon film forming method that introduces a raw material gas including carbon into a film forming chamber, ionizes the gas by using an ion source, accelerates the ionized gas, and radiates the ionized gas to a surface of a substrate to form a carbon film on the surface of the substrate, comprising:

forming the carbon film while rotating a first magnet, which is provided on the opposite side of the substrate across a region in which the raw material gas is ionized so as to be eccentric and/or inclined with respect to a central axis connecting the center of the ion source and a position corresponding to the center of the substrate held by a holder, in a circumferential direction.

2. A magnetic recording medium manufacturing method comprising:

using the carbon film forming method according to claim 1 .

3. The carbon film forming method according to claim 1 ,

wherein the first magnet is disposed along the central axis.

4. The carbon film forming method according to claim 1 ,

wherein the first magnet is arranged only on the backside of the ion source.

5. The carbon film forming method according to claim 1 ,

wherein a second magnet, which is provided around a region in which the ionized gas is accelerated so as to be eccentric and/or inclined with respect to a central axis connecting the center of the ion source and a position corresponding to the center of the substrate held by the holder, is rotating while forming the carbon film.

6. A magnetic recording medium manufacturing method comprising:

using the carbon film forming method according to claim 5 .

Assignments (4)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 15, 2024
From: RESONAC CORPORATION
To: RESONAC HARD DISK CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 069167/0673 →
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Feb 14, 2024
From: RESONAC CORPORATION
To: RESONAC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 066599/0037 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jun 23, 2023
From: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
To: RESONAC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 064082/0513 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 18, 2014
From: OTA, ICHIRO
To: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
Reel/Frame 034549/0856 →