摘要:
A vacuum system for the treatment of work pieces has an evacuatable treatment chamber having a centrally disposed low voltage arc discharge arrangement and laterally disposed loading opening. A coupling device between the work piece support and a receiving device on the system side allows simplified loading and removal of the work pieces to be treated along with the support by simply lifting onto or lowering from the receiving device.
摘要:
This invention provides a means to deposit thin films and coatings on a substrate using an electron beam generated plasma. The plasma can be used as an ion source in sputter applications, where the ions are used to liberate material from a target surface which can then condense on a substrate to form the film or coating. Alternatively, the plasma may be combined with existing deposition sources including those based on sputter or evaporation techniques. In either configuration, the plasma serves as a source of ion and radical species at the growing film surface in reactive deposition processes. The electron beam large area deposition system (EBELADS) is a new approach to the production of thin films or coatings up to and including several square meters.
摘要:
Spirally-grooved and plain thrust-plates of an aerodynamic gaslubricated bearing are both manufactured by sputter-deposition of a layer of wear-resistant target-material on to flat-disc substrates. Initial sputtering removes material from the substrates and replaces it partially with an alloy of target- and substrate-materials, the sputtering from the substrates being reduced progressively to zero as sputtering from the target is increased progressively to a full value. The content of targetmaterial increases progressively through the alloy-layer up to the final upper layer of target-material alone.
摘要:
A coating system includes a vacuum chamber and a coating assembly positioned within the vacuum chamber. The coating assembly includes a vapor source that provides material to be coated onto a substrate, a substrate holder to hold substrates to be coated such that the substrates are positioned in front of the vapor source, a cathode chamber assembly, and a remote anode. The cathode chamber assembly includes a cathode, an optional primary anode and a shield which isolates the cathode from the vacuum chamber. The shield defines openings for transmitting an electron emission current from the cathode into the vacuum chamber. The vapor source is positioned between the cathode and the remote anode while the remote anode is coupled to the cathode.
摘要:
A vacuum system for the treatment of work pieces has an evacuatable treatment chamber having a centrally disposed low voltage arc discharge arrangement and laterally disposed loading opening. A coupling device between the work piece support and a receiving device on the system side allows simplified loading and removal of the work pieces to be treated along with the support by simply lifting onto or lowering from the receiving device.
摘要:
Ionized cluster beam (ICB) deposition has received considerable attention since its introduction in 1972 by Takagi et al, at Kyoto University because of its potential for low temperature film growth. While further investigation of many aspects of ICB deposition is warranted, it is first necessary to determine with some certainty whether large clusters are being produced. A complete analysis of the Eaton ICB source involving computer calculation of the potential fields and computer simulation of the electrons and ions as they react to and influence these fields provides an in-depth understanding of the dynamics that influence the final ion beam characteristics. A high resolution time-of-flight mass spectrometer was developed to experimentally investigate the cluster size distribution. No evidence of large clusters was found down to a level more than two orders of magnitude below what the Kyoto University group has reported. A computer analysis of the three Kyoto University cluster size experiments that form the foundation of ICB has shown that the potential fields in the ionization areas are critically distorted by either space-charge effects or design flaws, both of which are serious enough to invalidate the experiments. The theory behind large cluster production and the body of indirect evidence attributed to the presence of large clusters are not convincing by themselves so it is concluded that a Takagi-type source does not produce large clusters in quantities capable of affecting film growth.
摘要:
Cathode sputtering apparatus for coating articles which are rotated within a vacuum sputtering chamber and which are electrically biased includes a shaft for supporting the articles to be coated, wherein the shaft is supported by a plurality of non-lubricated bearings disposed within the vacuum chamber, at least one of the bearings being designed to conduct electricity to the shaft, that bearing being a thrust bearing supported by and in electrical contact with a bearing support plate and having races and rolling elements preferably made from either molybdenum or tungsten which are very hard materials with low electrical resistivity.
摘要:
An anode assisted sputter etch and deposition apparatus having an electron source, a first anode adjacent the electron source and a second anode adjacent a negatively charged article to be sputter etched or sputter target in an ionizable gas atmosphere. Upon production of the electrons from said electron source a plasma is formed between the electron source, the first anode and the second anode, the plasma adjacent the second anode being capable of desorbing gases and other absorbed vapors from the surface of the article or target while positive ions from the plasma bombard the article or target with sufficient energy to eject material from the surface thereof.