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Processing apparatus for wafers

US4832778A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMay 27, 1988
Grant dateMay 23, 1989
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Expiry dateMay 27, 2008

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01L21/68785
  • WIPO fieldSemiconductors
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A high pressure processing apparatus and method which is compatible with a system wherein wafers are largely transported and processed under vacuum. The pressure vessel can be extremely small, i.e. has a total pressurized volume of which almost all interior points are within one or two centimeters of one of the workpieces which may be loaded into the chamber.

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