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5841235 |
Source for the generation of large area pulsed ion and electron beams
In a source for the generation of large-area pulsed ion or electron beams from an anode discharge electrode which has openings receiving discharge electrodes forming a vacuum arc plasma source, the...
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5841237 |
Production of large resonant plasma volumes in microwave electron cyclotron resonance ion sources
Microwave injection methods for enhancing the performance of existing electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) ion sources. The methods are based on the use of high-power diverse frequency microwaves,...
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5838111 |
Plasma generator with antennas attached to top electrodes
A plasma generator operable in the UHF and VHF bands is adaptable to process substrates having different sizes and shapes. The device includes a plurality of electrodes, a power supply for...
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5838120 |
Accelerator with closed electron drift
The invention is related to a plasma technology field, in particular, to plasma accelerators, used in a space technology, in scientific researches and in industry. A technical result is that the...
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5828176 |
Planar crossed-field plasma switch and method
A cold-cathode, crossed field switch has a magnet system which generates a magnetic field that is radially-oriented about a switch axis and a planar electrode system which generates an...
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5828175 |
Circuitry for operating a glow discharge path
The circuitry for operating a glow discharge path (GES) comprises a bridge circuit (BC) comprising a polarity switch (S1) and an ignition pulse circuit (ZIS1) in a first bridge branch (B1) and a...
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5827435 |
Plasma processing method and equipment used therefor
A plasma processing method is provided which suppresses the charge accumulation on a processing object such as a semiconductor substrate. An alternating excitation signal in the form of pulses for...
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5817218 |
Gas reactor using a plasma for cracking or synthesizing gases
The gas reactor 10 has a first gas inlet 32, a second gas inlet 34, a gas outlet 36, a rotatable plate 22 and stationary plate 20 opposed to this rotatable plate, wherein a gap 24 is formed between...
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5818173 |
Cylindrical antenna having means for generating a magnetic field in a vicinity of the antenna
The invention relates to a microwave antenna having at least one tubular portion with a central axis, and magnets which are located within the tubular portion along the central axis. The magnets...
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5815047 |
Fast transition RF impedance matching network for plasma reactor ignition
An impedance matching network for an RF coupled plasma reactor having RF excitation apparatus receiving RF power through the impedance matching network from an RF generator for producing a plasma...
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5803973 |
Apparatus for coating a substrate by chemical vapor deposition
A source of alternating current (3), is connected to two magnetron cathodes (4, 5), one pole (8) of the a.c. current source (4) being connected to one of the cathodes (4), while the other pole (9)...
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5804923 |
Plasma processing apparatus having a protected microwave transmission window
A plasma processing apparatus includes a microwave introducing member, which is provided with a microwave transmission opening through which microwaves pass into a processing chamber. The microwave...
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5804102 |
Plasma display filter
A plasma display filter for efficiently cutting off near infrared rays radiated from a plasma display so that malfunction of electronic equipment located around the display making use of near...
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5801489 |
Three-phase alternating current plasma generator
A plasma generating system uses three electrodes inside a chamber, connected to a low voltage three-phase AC supply. A high voltage AC plasma generator produces an ionized oscillator gas which is...
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5793162 |
Apparatus for controlling matching network of a vacuum plasma processor and memory for same
A load including a plasma discharge in a vacuum plasma processing chamber is matched to an r.f. source that supplies sufficient power to the discharge to maintain the discharge. A matching network...
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5789867 |
Apparatus and method for igniting plasma in a process module
The invention provides apparatus and methods for improving systems that expose samples to reactive plasmas, and more particularly for igniting plasma within a process module. The systems are of the...
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5777438 |
Apparatus for implanting metal ions in metals and ceramics
A metal ion implanting apparatus according to the present invention includes a vacuum vessel also serving as an anode, a holder for holding a substrate to be processed, a plurality of arc...
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5770922 |
Baseband V-I probe
An RF probe for a plasma chamber picks up current and voltage samples of the RF power applied to an RF plasma chamber, and the RF voltage and current waveforms are supplied to respective mixers. A...
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5767627 |
Plasma generation and plasma processing of materials
A plasma generation system includes one or more pairs of electrode units. Each electrode unit emits a plasma carrying gas along a respective axis. Each pair of electrode units is connected to an...
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5760496 |
Inverse-pinch voltage pulse generator
A first magnetic flux field is produced in the vicinity of a generally cylindrical pulse generating coil arrangement and a plasma is abruptly and radially displaced outwardly toward the coil...
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5751113 |
Closed electron drift hall effect plasma accelerator with all magnetic sources located to the rear of the anode
A Hall effect plasma accelerator comprises an annular accelerating channel having closed and open ends. A source of magnetic field is positioned behind the closed end of the channel and has an axis...
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5747917 |
Double-walled mircrowave plasma based applicator
An improved plasma applicator uses a double-walled sapphire sleeve assembly to provide a high efficiency cooling mechanism that is adapted for use with high power applications and aggressive plasma...
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5747935 |
Method and apparatus for stabilizing switch-mode powered RF plasma processing
Circuitry and techniques designed to allow stable and continuous delivery of alternating power to a processing plasma with switch-mode power supply (16) include a variety of embodiments. Parallel,...
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5736818 |
Resonant radiofrequency wave plasma generating apparatus with improved stage
A plasma (56, 333) generating apparatus (10, 320, 450) wherein a stage (250, 300, 300A, 350, 400, 425) is constructed to keep the plasma on the substrate (S). A pair of electrically, non-conductive...
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5717293 |
Strike enhancement circuit for a plasma generator
A strike enhancement circuit for a dc power supply, which can be a switched half-bridge supply, creates a high voltage at high impedance to initiate a plasma in a plasma chamber or sputtering...
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5717294 |
Plasma process apparatus
A vacuum chamber contains a first electrode for supporting a wafer, and a second electrode opposing the first electrode. A supply system and an exhaustion system are connected to the vacuum...
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5705931 |
Method for determining absolute plasma parameters
In accordance with the method of the present invention, the radio frequency discharge current generated in a plasma reactor is measured in the form of analog signals at a portion of the reactor...
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5703488 |
Instrument for measuring plasma excited by high-frequency
This instrument can measure parameters of a plasma accurately and easily even though the plasma is exited by a high-frequency. The instrument for measuring parameters of a plasma generated in a...
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5701057 |
Method of obtaining electric discharge and device for effecting same
A method of obtaining an electric discharge effected by a device for obtang an electric discharge resides in that on the surface of a cathode (3) is formed a layer (4) of oxides from the cathode...
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5698164 |
Low-temperature plasma generator
The present invention provides a low-temperature plasma generator as an electric discharger which is used for discharging electricity in dry air, humid air or water, thereby removing an offensive...
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5696428 |
Apparatus and method using optical energy for specifying and quantitatively controlling chemically-reactive components of semiconductor processing plasma etching gas
An apparatus for producing a plasma suitable for semiconductor processing at pressures in the low millitorr range. The apparatus includes a vacuum chamber with a dielectric window, a generally...
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5690745 |
Apparatus for plasma treatment of the inside surface of a fuel tank
A treatment chamber (1) evacuable by vacuum pumps (13,13') has a mounting (26,26', . . .) bearing the hollow body (4) in the treatment chamber (1), and a line (9,9') for the admission of a process...
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5677597 |
Electron flow accelerating method and apparatus which can generate a high-power beam
In a plasm beam generating apparatus comprising a plasma source and an anode portion for receiving a plasma beam, a magnetic field generating device is arranged between the plasma source and the...
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5666023 |
Device for producing a plasma, enabling microwave propagation and absorption zones to be dissociated having at least two parallel applicators defining a propogation zone and an exciter placed relative to the applicator
The invention relates to a distribution device for distributing microwave power to excite a plasma inside an enclosure. According to the invention, the distribution device includes at least one...
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5665167 |
Plasma treatment apparatus having a workpiece-side electrode grounding circuit
A static chuck and a workpiece push-up pin are disposed on a susceptor which is one of opposed electrodes generating plasma. The push-up pin and the susceptor are electrically connected. A...
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5650693 |
Plasma sterilizer apparatus using a non-flammable mixture of hydrogen and oxygen
An apparatus for plasma sterilization of articles is provided that comprises a plasma generator and a sterilizing chamber. The plasma generator has an inlet for receiving a premixed gas mixture...
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5648701 |
Electrode designs for high pressure magnetically assisted inductively coupled plasmas
A plasma system is disclosed comprising a vessel suitable for containing a plasma at a pressure of at least about 100 mtorr, a plasma gas in the vessel at a pressure of at least 100 mtorr, an...
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5646489 |
Plasma generator with mode restricting means
A plasma processing apparatus has a waveguide along which microwaves are propagated from a microwave generator to a plasma-forming region in a low-pressure processing chamber. The waveguide has a...
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5646488 |
Differential pumping stage with line of sight pumping mechanism
An apparatus allows photons in the infrared, visible, ultraviolet, soft x-ray and hard x-ray energy ranges to pass freely along a line of sight path between two vacuum regions at different...
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5637962 |
Plasma wake field XUV radiation source
A XUV radiation source uses an interaction of electron beam pulses with a gas to create a plasma radiator. A flowing gas system (10) defines a circulation loop (12) with a device (14), such as a...
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5637961 |
Concentric rings with different RF energies applied thereto
A plasma generating apparatus comprises a chamber for containing an object to be treated, a pair of high frequency coils located concentric in the chamber and opposed to the object, to generate...
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5633502 |
Plasma processing system for transmission electron microscopy specimens and specimen holders
A plasma processing method and apparatus are disclosed in which a low energy, high frequency plasma is utilized to remove both amorphous damage resulting from various specimen preparation...
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5627435 |
Hollow cathode array and method of cleaning sheet stock therewith
An array of hollow cathodes can be made by mounting a housing connected to a source of plasma precursor gas and to a source of power in a vacuum chamber, said housing having a plurality of...
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5625259 |
Microwave plasma applicator with a helical fluid cooling channel surrounding a microwave transparent discharge tube
A fluid-cooled plasma applicator for microwave absorbing fluids is described. The applicator includes a discharge tube substantially transparent to microwave energy and a cooling member surrounding...
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5619103 |
Inductively coupled plasma generating devices
A broad area plasma lighting device in which a sealed gas envelope placed adjacent to a planar inductive coupling structure generates visible light. Representative planar inductive coupling...
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5605640 |
Reactor for the treatment of particulate matter by electrical discharge
A reactor and method for the treatment of matter by plasma action. A plurality of electrode structures are positioned to define a reaction zone associated with the inter-electrode space. The...
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5592055 |
Radio-frequency plasma source
A plasma source is described, comprising a discharge chamber (1) bounded by a base wall (5) and by a lateral wall (3), a system (7) for the admission of gas into said discharge chamber, a system of...
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5589737 |
Plasma processor for large workpieces
A plasma processor for large workpieces includes a vacuum chamber having plural individually supported dielectric windows for coupling an r.f. field originating outside of the chamber into the...
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5587093 |
Safe potential arc channel enhanced arc head
A gas ionizable to produce a plasma is introduced into a arc head and a plasma discharge is initiated at voltages less than 50 V between a high resistance helix, impregnated with low work function...
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5585696 |
High current density glow discharge switch
The present invention is directed to a high current density glow discharge switch which is capable of preventing confinement of an electron current to the vicinity of the center of a flat electrode...
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