Inventor · Santa Clara, CA, US

Michael G. Chafin

15Patents
9h-index
50Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: May 11, 1995 → Oct 14, 2019

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5903428A Hybrid Johnsen-Rahbek electrostatic chuck having highly resistive mesas separating the chuck from a wafer supported thereupon and method of fabricating same Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 231 Expired
US6095084A High density plasma process chamber Electricity 140 Expired
US5636098A Barrier seal for electrostatic chuck Electricity 49 Expired
US6151203A Connectors for an electrostatic chuck and combination thereof Electricity 36 Expired
US8270141B2 Electrostatic chuck with reduced arcing Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 23 Active
US6824748B2 Heated catalytic treatment of an effluent gas from a substrate fabrication process Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 10 Expired
US6273958A Substrate support for plasma processing Electricity 10 Expired
US10840062B2 Radio frequency filter system for a processing chamber Electricity 9 Active
US7813103B2 Time-based wafer de-chucking from an electrostatic chuck having separate RF BIAS and DC chucking electrodes Electricity 9 Active
US7838430B2 Plasma control using dual cathode frequency mixing Electricity 7 Active
US9601301B2 Non-intrusive measurement of a wafer DC self-bias in semiconductor processing equipment Electricity 1 Active
US10546731B1 Method, apparatus and system for wafer dechucking using dynamic voltage sweeping Electricity 1 Active
US9070536B2 Plasma reactor electrostatic chuck with cooled process ring and heated workpiece support surface Electricity 0 Active
US11447868B2 Method for controlling a plasma process Electricity 0 Active
US8580693B2 Temperature enhanced electrostatic chucking in plasma processing apparatus Electricity 0 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.