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Apparatus for forming a thin film

US4799454A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateDec 30, 1987
Grant dateJan 24, 1989
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Expiry dateDec 30, 2007

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
  • CPC primaryC23C14/221
  • WIPO fieldSurface technology, coating
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

An apparatus for forming a thin film in which the reactive gases, which have been activated by the reactive gas activation means, accelerated by the kinetic energy controlling means, and still more activated by the excimer laser beam emitted toward the neighborhood of the substrate from the excimer laser beam emitting means disposed outside of the vacuum chamber, react with the material to be deposited, which has been clustered or turned into the cluster ion by the ICB device and accelerated, to form a thin film of a compound as the material to be deposited on the substrate disposed within the vacuum chamber maintained at a predetermined degree of vacuum.

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