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6521902 Process for minimizing electrostatic damage and pole tip recession of magnetoresistive magnetic recording head during pole tip trimming by focused ion beam milling  
The improved method for trimming a magnetic head utilizing a FIB tool includes a step of aligning the FIB tool milling boxes without imaging critical pole tip components and structure. The method...
6509573 Apparatus and method for controlling a radiation device  
An arrangement and a method for controlling a radiation device, in particular for heavy ion therapy, are described. The arrangement comprises a chain of circuit modules ( 11-17 ), each circuit...
6504163 Electron beam irradiation process and an object irradiated with an electron beam  
A process of accelerating electrons with a voltage applied thereto in a vacuum, guiding the accelerated electrons into a normal-pressure atmosphere, and irradiating the electron beam (EB) onto an...
6501082 Plasma deposition apparatus and method with controller  
A controlled plasma deposition system and method are provided including a vacuum vessel. An electron adding mass spectrometer is connected to a vacuum vessel for carrying out a gas treatment for a...
6498444 Computer-aided tuning of charged particle accelerators  
Systems and methods for tuning a charged particle accelerator ( 40 ) are described. An accelerator tuning system ( 44 ) includes a graphical user interface ( 110 ) that guides a tuning technician (...
6495842 Implantation of the radioactive 32P atoms  
In an apparatus for the doping of vessel supports (stents) with radioactive and non-radioactive atoms comprising an electron-cyclotron-ion-source (ECRIS) with an arrangement for extracting an ion...
6492645 System for, and method of, irradiating articles to sterilize the articles  
A first robotic assembly transfers articles from carriers on a transport mechanism at a loading area to a first load conveyor. The conveyor transfers the articles to a process conveyor which moves...
6486480 Plasma formed ion beam projection lithography system  
A plasma-formed ion-beam projection lithography (IPL) system eliminates the acceleration stage between the ion source and stencil mask of a conventional IPL system. Instead a much thicker mask is...
6486481 Vibratory table apparatus and associated equipment and methods for radiation treatment of polymeric materials  
Apparatus and a method for treating polymeric material, such as polytetrafluoroethylene, with radiation. The polytetrafluoroethylene is moved under an electron beam in an even and consistent depth...
6486482 Irradiation equipment  
An arrangement and a method for irradiation of products by charged particles. The arrangement comprises a particle acceleration device and a radiation chamber, in which the products are irradiated...
6483263 Automated system for conditioning a linear accelerator  
A method and system for automatically conditioning a linear accelerator is disclosed. The method and system comprise the steps of measuring the global variables of the accelerator and evaluating a...
6479831 Process for the irradiation of strand-shaped irradiated material, and an irradiating device for the performance of the said process  
In a process for the irradiation of strand-shaped irradiated material ( 19; 19 a-e ), in particular cable insulation or sheathing ( 31 ) capable of being cross-linked by irradiation, or tubes,...
6476387 Method and apparatus for observing or processing and analyzing using a charged beam  
In a method for observing or processing and analyzing the surface of a sample by irradiating a charged beam on the sample covered at least partially by an insulator film, an ultraviolet light is...
6475432 Carrier and support for work pieces  
A device for use in carrying and supporting a work piece before, during, and after a treatment process. The device can be used for both shipping and treating the work piece, and the device will not...
6476403 Gantry with an ion-optical system  
The present invention is drawn to a gantry for an ion-optical system comprising an ion source and three bending magnets for deflecting an ion beam about an axis of rotation. A plurality of...
6472834 Accelerator and medical system and operating method of the same  
The accelerator is a cyclic type accelerator having deflection electromagnets and four-pole electromagnets for making a charged particle beam circulate, a multi-pole electromagnet for generating a...
6468471 System for, and method of, irradiating opposite sides of articles with optimal amounts of cumulative irradiation  
Opposite sides of an article are irradiated to sterilize the article. The cumulative irradiation should be above a first value, and below a second value greater than the first value, at all of the...
6465797 Electron beam illumination apparatus, electron beam exposure apparatus, and device manufacturing method  
The electron emission surface of an electron source is formed to have an effective irradiation area and a restricted irradiation area the electron emission efficiencies of which differ from each...
6462490 Method and apparatus for controlling circular accelerator  
A control method and apparatus of a circular accelerator can adjust a timing of emitting a charged particle beam in the circular accelerator. Generation of a clock pulse having a fixed period is...
6459089 Single accelerator/two-treatment vault system  
A particle accelerator ( 10 ) is disposed between a first shielded processing chamber ( 12 )and a second shielded processing chamber ( 14 ). The accelerator selectively feeds a higher energy (e.g.,...
6456019 Real time measurement of leakage current in high voltage electron guns  
A method and a apparatus are provided for operating an E-beam system including an E-beam source for generating an E-beam directed along a column axis and an electrode aligned with the column axis...
6455332 Methodology to mitigate electron beam induced charge dissipation on polysilicon fine patterning  
A method of making and using a reference wafer and a metrology system to calibrate tools in a photolithographic system. The reference wafer includes a silicon substrate, a dielectric or insulating...
6437513 Ionization chamber for ion beams and method for monitoring the intensity of an ion beam  
The invention relates to an ionization chamber for ion beams and to a method of monitoring the intensity of an ion therapy beam by way of such an ionization chamber. For that purpose, the...
6437353 Particle-optical apparatus and process for the particle-optical production of microstructures  
The invention relates to a particle-optical apparatus for particle-optical mask projection. According to the invention, an energy filter is used, by which particles which are inelastically...
6433349 Charged-particle beam irradiation method and system  
A charged-particle beam irradiation system for an affected part in which while a charged-particle beam ejected from an accelerator is scanned by an electromagnet onto the affected part, each layer...
6429445 Electron beam irradiating apparatus having cathode plate formed of non-metal conductive material  
An electron beam irradiating apparatus adopting a cathode plate including a non-metal conductive material. The electron beam irradiating apparatus includes a chamber having an opening at the top...
6429608 Direct injection accelerator method and system  
An electron beam accelerator system includes a high power switching device coupled between the direct current voltage source and the pulse forming network. A pulse control circuit is connected to...
6429444 Real time monitoring of electron beam radiation dose  
An accelerator ( 10 ) generates an electron beam that is swept ( 16 ) up and down to form an electron beam ( 22 ). A conveyor ( 32 ) moves items ( 30 ) through the electron beam for irradiation...
6429440 Lithography apparatus having a dynamically variable illumination beam  
A lithographic apparatus, e.g. using an electron beam, to expose a radiation sensitive layer on a substrate to the pattern on a mask comprising pattern areas and opaque supports. The apparatus uses...
6417516 Electron beam lithographing method and apparatus thereof  
An electron beam lithographing method for exposing and lithographing a desired pattern with an electron beam includes the steps of forming a plurality of accuracy evaluation patterns and a desired...
6414323 Charged particle beam apparatus and method of controlling charged particle beam  
There is here disclosed charged particle beam apparatus in which reactant floating in vacuum can efficiently be removed by simple structure. The charged particle beam apparatus of the present...
6414330 Method and apparatus for applying electron radiation to subcutaneous cells  
Uniform electron irradiation of tissue over a large solid angle is accomplished by directing an electron beam of selectively variable energy and intensity through a hollow needle to emerge in the...
6410929 Electron beam irradiation apparatus  
An electron beam irradiation apparatus has an electron accelerator for accelerating electrons emitted from an electron beam source to irradiate a target, and a power supply for supplying power of...
6407399 Uniformity correction for large area electron source  
The invention pertains to electron exposure equipment useful for exposing, treating and processing coatings and other materials by a cold cathode gas discharge electron source having a broad...
6407492 Electron beam accelerator  
An electron accelerator includes a vacuum chamber having an electron beam exit window. The exit window is formed of metallic foil bonded in metal to metal contact with the vacuum chamber to provide...
6403967 Magnet system for an ion beam implantation system using high perveance beams  
An apparatus for ion implantation using high perveance beams is disclosed. The apparatus includes a dipole magnet apparatus that provides an adjustment to a cross-beam magnetic dipole field in an...
6400090 Electron emitters for lithography tools  
The specification describes a method and apparatus for electron beam lithography wherein a Wehnelt electron gun is modified to improve the uniformity of the electron beam. A mesh grid is applied to...
6396065 Radioactive ray irradiating apparatus  
In projecting radioactive rays for sanitizing food or the like, an irradiating condition which attains a uniform dose of radioactive rays for the entire objects to be exposed is automatically...
6376137 Charged-particle-beam microlithography apparatus and methods including correction of stage-positioning errors using a deflector  
Charged-particle-beam microlithography apparatus and methods are disclosed that achieve correction of positioning errors of one or both the reticle stage and wafer stage using a deflector. The...
6366641 Reducing dark current in a standing wave linear accelerator  
Systems and methods for reducing dark current levels in a standing wave linear accelerator without sacrificing operating performance are described. In a radiation mode, the standing wave linear...
6354438 Focused ion beam apparatus for forming thin-film magnetic recording heads  
This invention relates to a multi-layer lithographically fabricated device used to produce improved thin-film recording heads. It further relates to a focused particle beam system for milling a...
6355383 Electron-beam exposure system, a mask for electron-beam exposure and a method for electron-beam exposure  
This invention provides a scattering-angle limiting type of electron-beam exposure system having a mask comprising a scattering region and a limiting aperture which limits the amount of scattered...
6352799 Charged-particle-beam pattern-transfer methods and apparatus including beam-drift measurement and correction, and device manufacturing methods comprising same  
Charged-particle-beam microlithography methods and apparatus are disclosed that employ a segmented reticle and provide high-accuracy pattern transfer even under conditions of drift of the charged...
6353922 Automatic generation of one dimensional data compaction commands for electron beam lithography  
A method, and a system for employing the method, for compacting the amount of memory required to store a two dimensional array of exposure spot shapes in a numerically controlled (NC) electron beam...
6344115 Pattern forming method using charged particle beam process and charged particle beam processing system  
A pattern forming method using an improved charged particle beam process, and a charged particle beam processing system prevent effectively the corrosion of a workpiece by a reactive gas adsorbed...
RE37537 Method and apparatus for altering material  
Methods and apparatus for thermally altering the near surface characteristics of a material are described. In particular, a repetitively pulsed ion beam system comprising a high energy pulsed power...
6337486 Electron beam drawing process and electron beam drawing apparatus  
An electron beam drawing process of high throughput, coping with the changes in static distortion and dynamic distortion of a lower layer exposure apparatus or an optical reduction exposure...
6335535 Method for implanting negative hydrogen ion and implanting apparatus  
A method for implanting negative hydrogen ions includes the following steps. Plasma containing hydrogen is generated. Negative hydrogen ions are generated in the plasma. An electric field is formed...
6331713 Movable ion source assembly  
An ion source assembly 10 is disclosed, the assembly comprising a source sub assembly having an ion source 20, an extraction electrode 40 and an electrically insulating high voltage bushing 60 to...
6329664 Ion implantation apparatus for wafers  
An ion implantation apparatus is provided which does not require dummy wafers and which is capable of reducing the manufacturing cost and increasing the throughput. The ion implantation apparatus...