Abstract: It is very difficult to produce a negative wall angle from either negative or positive-tone chemically amplified resists, especially by e-beam lithography. This problem has now been overcome by first forming a photoresist pedestal in the conventional way, followed by flood exposing with electrons. Then, a second development treatment is given. This results in removal of additional material from the sidewalls, said removal being greatest at the substrate and least at the pedestal's top surface, resulting in negatively sloping sidewalls. Application of this method to a process for forming a pole tip for a vertical magnetic writer is also discussed.

Abstract: Leaf-level, multi-dimensional calculations are optimized by translating the multi-dimensional calculations to efficient query scripts. To generate efficient query scripts, rows are transposed to columns while affected rows are reduced by reversing calculation relationships. Actual calculations are performed on calculated columns. Transposing row-to-column enables fast arithmetic calculations. Reversing the calculation relationships enables a reduction of the rows that need to be processed.

Abstract: Data allocation is performed by translating a rule set to a query list. An allocation engine receives the rule set and the data and generates a query list. The query list may be in MDX or SQL syntax. After modifying the queries in the list into a list of physical queries that match the specific characteristic of the data store, a modeling abstraction layer provides the physical queries to the data store engine to perform the queries and provide the results to the allocation engine. The allocation engine allocates the data among existing or new hierarchical levels based on the query results. The allocated data may be stored in the same data store as the original data.

Abstract: It is very difficult to produce a negative wall angle from either negative or positive-tone chemically amplified resists, especially by e-beam lithography. This problem has now been overcome by first forming a photoresist pedestal in the conventional way, followed by flood exposing with electrons. Then, a second development treatment is given. This results in removal of additional material from the sidewalls, said removal being greatest at the substrate and least at the pedestal's top surface, resulting in negatively sloping sidewalls. Application of this method to a process for forming a pole tip for a vertical magnetic writer is also discussed.

Abstract: For a user of a multi-dimensional database (e.g., as part of an OLAP system), a copy of at least a portion of the multi-dimensional database (i.e., a local cube) may be cached locally on the user's user device. The user then may query the local cube rather than the multi-dimensional database server. Further, the local cube may include not only data from the database but the functions representing the dependencies between pieces of the data. A reporting tool on the user's device may be configured to communicate with the local cube, such that the user may use the reporting tool to experiment with “what if” scenarios in local (e.g., volatile) memory by accessing the data and the functions from the local cube. For example, a thin client side query layer may be provided that directs all queries from a front-end reporting tool to the local cached data.

Abstract: RDL (report description language) is an XML-based schema that has been designed and extended for standardizing report generation and maintenance. Reports can be generated that allow inspection of data that can come from several sources. The data can come from several arbitrary data sources, which can then be obtained and displayed using RDL. Implementations are provided for creating a mechanism to define how to present to end-users existing data, indicate where writing is possible, capture the user input, and later submit the changed data back to the data repository. Accordingly, a “Form” is defined, which provides a “report with data entry” areas.

Abstract: It is very difficult to produce a negative wall angle from either negative or positive-tone chemically amplified resists, especially by e-beam lithography. This problem has now been overcome by first forming a photoresist pedestal in the conventional way, followed by flood exposing with electrons. Then, a second development treatment is given. This results in removal of additional material from the sidewalls, said removal being greatest at the substrate and least at the pedestal's top surface, resulting in negatively sloping sidewalls. Application of this method to a process for forming a pole tip for a vertical magnetic writer is also discussed.

Abstract: Data cells in a spreadsheet report are collapsed and expanded without disrupting other spreadsheet data. A user may want to drill down on data corresponding to a parent member of the report to display more detailed information about the parent member. Likewise, a user may want to drill up the displayed information corresponding to the parent member to hide detailed information associated with the parent member. Before expanding or collapsing a report, the spreadsheet is scanned for information to determine whether the display of other data in the spreadsheet would be disrupted by the expansion/collapse. The information may include cross-join information associated with the parent member, the number of child members associated with the parent member, the dimension of the report created by the parent member and the associated child members, and other reports that may be linked to the report that includes the parent member.

Abstract: Queries to obtain data from an OLAP cube are consolidated. Queries are consolidated to reduce the number of database hits to retrieve data from an OLAP cube. Instead of querying the OLAP cube for each cell in a free-form report, a consolidated query is used to obtain the desired information. The consolidated query may contain requests for data from different dimensions within the OLAP cube. The cells in the spreadsheet are parsed to determine the dimensions of the OLAP cube that are used within the spreadsheet cell. A list of dimensions accessed by the spreadsheet cells is compiled and the query is constructed by adding default dimensions to each cell as necessary to complete the query.

Abstract: Current cell values are provided to a client using two-passes. When a first request to provide values is received during a first pass, default values are provided to the client. Upon receiving each value request, the formula parameters are collected that are associated with the cell. The formula parameters are parsed to determine data that is to be retrieved from a database. Once the locations for all of the data to be retrieved has been determined, the data is retrieved from a database in as few as hits as possible. After obtaining the current values from the database, the client is informed to request the values a second time. When the second request to provide values is received, the client is provided with the calculated values during the second pass.

Abstract: It is very difficult to produce a negative wall angle from either negative or positive-tone chemically amplified resists, especially by e-beam lithography. This problem has now been overcome by first forming a photoresist pedestal in the conventional way, followed by flood exposing with electrons. Then, a second development treatment is given. This results in removal of additional material from the sidewalls, said removal being greatest at the substrate and least at the pedestal's top surface, resulting in negatively sloping sidewalls. Application of this method to a process for forming a pole tip for a vertical magnetic writer is also discussed.