Capacitively coupled RF-plasma reactor
US6281469A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 23, 1999 |
| Grant date | Aug 28, 2001 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 23, 2019 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH01J37/32541
- WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A capacitively coupled RF plasma reactor allows treatment of large workpiece surfaces with an accurate control of ion bombardment onto the respective electrode surfaces and thus an adjacent workpiece, be it to a desired low or to a desired high level. The reactor includes a first and a second electrode arrangement mutually spaced and confining a plasma reaction volume, at lest one of the electrode arrangements comprising electrically mutually isolated sub-electrodes, a first group of the sub-electrodes being commonly connected to a first electric input, and a second group of the sub-electrodes being commonly connected to a second electric input. The reactor thus substitutes at least one of the two customarily used reactor electrodes by an array of sub-electrodes which, by way of their respective first and second electric inputs, may be independently and thus differently electrically operated, usually but not exclusively with RF voltages.
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