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Mask alignment for semiconductor processing

US4315692A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateOct 29, 1980
Grant dateFeb 16, 1982
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Expiry dateOct 29, 2000

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG02B21/0016
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A high power microscope is fitted with a gas jet arrangement for blowing a thin flexible mask into local contact with a semiconductor substrate so as to facilitate mask alignment.

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