GRID SURFACE CONDITIONING FOR ION BEAM SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20240203683A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-20

    申请号:US18504438

    申请日:2023-11-08

    IPC分类号: H01J37/147

    CPC分类号: H01J37/147

    摘要: An in situ cleansing of grids of an ion beam system, such as a deposition and/or etching system, that includes applying a negative bias on the downstream-most grid and etching redeposited material from the grid. Any or all of the chamber pressure of the system, the extraction current in the ion beam source, the beam divergence, and perveance can be adjusted with the deceleration grid bias. The methods of this disclosure can be applied to any gridded ion source systems, including those with an assist ion beam.

    ENHANCED CATHODIC ARC SOURCE FOR ARC PLASMA DEPOSITION

    公开(公告)号:US20210172053A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-10

    申请号:US16997782

    申请日:2020-08-19

    摘要: An improved cathodic arc source and method of DLC film deposition with a carbon containing directional-jet plasma flow produced inside of cylindrical graphite cavity with depth s of the cavity approximately equal to the cathode diameter. The generated carbon plasma expands through the orifice into ambient vacuum resulting in plasma flow strong self-constriction. The method represents a repetitive process that includes two steps: the described above plasma generation/ deposition step that alternates with a recovery step. This step provides periodical removal of excessive amount of carbon accumulated on the cavity wall by motion of l o the cathode rod inside of the cavity in direction of the orifice. The cathode rod protrudes above the orifice, and moves back to the initial cathode tip position. The said steps periodically can be reproduced until the film with target thickness is deposited. Technical advantages include the film hardness, density, and transparency improvement, high reproducibility, long duration operation, and particulate reduction.

    Wafer carrier having provisions for improving heating uniformity in chemical vapor deposition systems

    公开(公告)号:US10167571B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-01

    申请号:US13840164

    申请日:2013-03-15

    摘要: A wafer carrier and methods of making the same for use in a system for growing epitaxial layers on one or more wafers by chemical vapor deposition. The wafer carrier includes wafer retention pockets recessed in its body. A thermally-insulating spacer is situated at least partially in the at least one wafer retention pocket and arranged to maintain a spacing between the peripheral wall surface and the wafer, the spacer being constructed from a material having a thermal conductivity less than a thermal conductivity of the wafer carrier such that the spacer limits heat conduction from portions of the wafer carrier body to the wafer. The wafer carrier further includes a spacer retention feature that engages with the spacer and includes a surface oriented to prevent centrifugal movement of the spacer when subjected to rotation about the central axis.