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7312579 Hall-current ion source for ion beams of low and high energy for technological applications  
A Hall-current ion source for generation of low and high energy ion beams with selection of magnetic fields and emission currents, where there are utilized low magnetic fields and high emission...
7309961 Driving frequency modulation system and method for plasma accelerator  
A plasma accelerator ( 300 ) is disclosed that has three separate sections of coils ( 301 - 316 ) disposed outside the plasma chamber ( 321 ). The separate sections of coils include an initial...
7304435 Device for confinement of a plasma within a volume  
A device of a plasma ( 5 ) for confinement of a plasma within a housing ( 1 ), comprising creation means for creating a magnetic field, said means being a series of permanent magnets ( 3 ) for...
7294969 Two-stage hall effect plasma accelerator including plasma source driven by high-frequency discharge  
Disclosed is a high-frequency discharge plasma generation-based two-stage Hall-effect plasma accelerator, which comprises an annular acceleration channel having a gas inlet port, a high-frequency...
7291985 External resonator/cavity electrode-less plasma lamp and method of exciting with radio-frequency energy  
Described is a plasma electrode-less lamp. The device comprises an electromagnetic resonator and an electromagnetic radiation source conductively connected with the electromagnetic resonator. The...
7288204 Method and arrangement for treating a substrate with an atmospheric pressure glow plasma (APG)  
Method for generating an atmospheric pressure glow plasma (APG), wherein said plasma is generated in a discharge space between a plurality of electrodes. A dielectric is present on at least one of...
7285916 Multi chamber plasma process system  
A multi-chamber plasma process system includes a plurality of process chambers, each of which has an inductively coupled plasma generator. The inductively coupled plasma generator is electrically...
7279845 Plasma processing method and apparatus  
A method and apparatus for processing a target substance by using atmospheric-pressure plasma produced by a composite waveform generated by superimposing a high-frequency sine wave and a...
7276135 Vacuum plasma processor including control in response to DC bias voltage  
A plasma processor chamber includes a bottom electrode and a top electrode assembly having a center electrode surrounded by a grounded electrode. RF excited plasma between the electrodes induces a...
7273995 Plasma generator  
A microfabricated plasma generator and a method of generating a plasma, the plasma generator comprising: a substrate chip; a chamber defined by the substrate chip, the chamber including an inlet...
7262555 Method and system for discretely controllable plasma processing  
A method and system for plasma generation and processing includes a plurality of beam generators each locally controllable and configured for operation upon a single substrate. A control circuit...
7262384 Reaction vessel and method for synthesizing nanoparticles using cyclonic gas flow  
A reaction vessel and a method for efficiently producing and collecting nanoparticles in the reaction vessel using cyclonic gas flow. Gas is injected through an inlet tangentially positioned...
7259378 Closed drift ion source  
A closed drift ion source which includes a channel having an open end, a closed end, and an input port for an ionizable gas. A first magnetic pole is disposed on the open end of the channel and...
7256134 Selective etching of carbon-doped low-k dielectrics  
The present invention includes a process for selectively etching a low-k dielectric material formed on a substrate using a plasma of a gas mixture in a plasma etch chamber. The gas mixture...
7245084 Transformer ignition circuit for a transformer coupled plasma source  
An apparatus includes a vacuum chamber, an electrical transformer that surrounds the vacuum chamber to induce an electromagnetic field within the vacuum chamber, and an ignition circuit. The...
7230202 Plasma processing apparatus, electrode unit, feeder member and radio frequency feeder rod  
Disclosed herein is a plasma processing apparatus that introduces a process gas into an airtight processing container, that applies a radio frequency power to generate plasma, and that conducts a...
7220462 Method and electrode assembly for non-equilibrium plasma treatment  
A method and electrode assembly for treating a substrate with a non-equilibrium plasma in which the electrode assembly has two or more spaced barrier electrodes and a ground electrode spaced apart...
7204921 Vacuum apparatus and vacuum processing method  
A vacuum apparatus which can easily regenerate plasma is provided. A matching box used in the vacuum apparatus can vary the impedance thereof by varying the magnitudes of the inductance of variable...
7196283 Plasma reactor overhead source power electrode with low arcing tendency, cylindrical gas outlets and shaped surface  
An overhead gas distribution electrode forming at least a portion of the ceiling of a plasma reactor has a bottom surface facing a processing zone of the reactor. The electrode includes a gas...
7190119 Methods and apparatus for optimizing a substrate in a plasma processing system  
An arrangement for processing a semiconductor substrate in a plasma processing system is disclosed. The arrangement includes providing a RF coupling structure having a first terminal and a second...
7186314 Plasma processor and plasma processing method  
A plasma processor includes a table on which a target object is to be placed, a vessel which accommodates the table and in which a plasma is to be generated by a high-frequency electromagnetic...
7183715 Method for operating a semiconductor processing apparatus  
A method for operating a semiconductor processing apparatus that plasma-processes a semiconductor wafer mounted on a stage placed in a container using a plasma generated therein. The method...
7183514 Helix coupled remote plasma source  
A remote plasma source employs a helical coil slow wave structure to couple microwave energy to a flowing gas to produce plasma for downstream substrate processing, such as photoresist stripping,...
7180243 Plasma accelerator with closed electron drift  
The closed electron drift plasma accelerator comprises an annular ionization chamber, an acceleration chamber on the same axis as the ionization chamber, an annular anode, a hollow cathode, a first...
7176634 Coaxial type impedance matching device and impedance detecting method for plasma generation  
A plasma generating method generates plasma in a treating chamber by controlling a high-frequency generating unit to generate a high-frequency signal and by feeding the high-frequency signal to the...
7176402 Method and apparatus for processing electronic parts  
An electronic part processing method for peeling off a resin coating of an electronic part having a terminal section. The method includes a step of irradiating, with plasma, a coated wire having...
7173211 Device for plasma incision of matter with a specifically tuned radiofrequency electromagnetic field generator  
A device to place an incision into matter with a harmonious plasma cloud. A radiofrequency generator system produces pulsed or continuous electromagnetic waveform which is transmitted by an active...
7171919 Diamond film depositing apparatus using microwaves and plasma  
Disclosed herewith is a diamond film depositing apparatus using microwaves and plasma. The apparatus comprises a rectangular wave guide ( 125 ), a mode transition coupler ( 120 ), an antenna rod (...
7157721 Coupled ionization apparatus and methods  
Apparatus for generating ions in a gaseous medium, the apparatus including two electrodes separated by a dielectric material and a means for generating radio frequency pulses. The electrodes are of...
7157659 Plasma processing method and apparatus  
In a state that a plate-shaped insulator is disposed adjacent to a plate-shaped electrode, a discharge gas containing an inert gas is supplied to a vicinity of a processing object from one gas...
7156047 Apparatus for fabricating semiconductor device using plasma  
Provided is an apparatus for fabricating a semiconductor device using plasma, whereby a semiconductor device fabricating process using plasma provides significantly greater uniformity. The...
7157857 Stabilizing plasma and generator interactions  
An approach for stabilizing the interactions between a plasma and the generator powering the plasma is provided. Reactive elements disposed between the power generator and plasma operate to modify...
7156046 Plasma CVD apparatus  
A plasma CVD apparatus in which microwave power is supplied into a reaction chamber provided inside an annular waveguide through an antenna provided on the inner peripheral part of the waveguide to...
7153444 Apparatus and method for radio frequency de-coupling and bias voltage control in a plasma reactor  
Provided is a method and apparatus for controlling a bias voltage over a wide range and for de-coupling dual radio frequency (RF) currents to allow for independent control of plasma density and ion...
7150780 Electrostatic air cleaning device  
An electrostatic air cleaning device includes an array of electrodes. The electrodes include corona electrodes connected to a suitable source of high voltage so as to generate a corona discharge....
7140321 Plasma processing apparatus and method  
A plasma processing apparatus includes a vacuum chamber that accommodates an object to be processed, and provides a plasma process to the object in a vacuum or reduced pressure environment, a...
7138767 Surface wave plasma processing system and method of using  
A SWP source includes an electromagnetic (EM) wave launcher configured to couple EM energy in a desired EM wave mode to a plasma by generating a surface wave on a plasma surface of the EM wave...
7138599 Plasma-based de-icing  
An electrical conductor and a gas-filled layer are located at or near the surface of an object being deiced. The conductor carries an AC voltage that generates an alternating electric field in the...
7129656 Apparatus for magnetic and electrostatic confinement of plasma  
An apparatus and method for containing plasma and forming a Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) magnetic topology are described in which plasma ions are contained magnetically in stable,...
7122965 Methods and apparatus for calibration and metrology for an integrated RF generator system  
The invention features RF plasma generation systems, methods for operating the systems, methods for calibrating the systems, and calibration apparatus. One RF plasma generation system includes an...
7119491 Magnetic and electrostatic confinement of plasma with tuning of electrostatic field  
A system and method for containing plasma and forming a Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) magnetic topology are described in which plasma ions are contained magnetically in stable, non-adiabatic...
7112926 Matching unit and plasma processing system  
There are provided a matching unit capable of sufficiently matching the impedance of a high frequency load to a transmission path impedance without increasing its size and matching time even if a...
7102292 Method and device for removing harmonics in semiconductor plasma processing systems  
A system and method for maintaining a plasma in a plasma region by supplying RF power at a fundamental frequency to the plasma region together with a gas in order to create an RF electromagnetic...
7098599 Plasma generator  
The whole antenna conductor is housed in the interior of a vacuum container of a plasma generator thereby to eliminate the need for an insulating partition or a top plate so that the whole...
7095178 Plasma processing apparatus, method for operating the same, designing system of matching circuit, and plasma processing method  
A plasma processing apparatus includes a radio frequency generator, a plasma processing chamber, a matching circuit for impedance matching between the radio frequency generator and the plasma...
7094322 Use of self-sustained atmospheric pressure plasma for the scattering and absorption of electromagnetic radiation  
A self-sustained atmospheric pressure system for absorbing or scattering electromagnetic waves using a capillary discharge electrode configuration plasma panel and a method for using the same. Of...
7095179 Methods and apparatus for generating strongly-ionized plasmas with ionizational instabilities  
Methods and apparatus for generating strongly-ionized plasmas are disclosed. A strongly-ionized plasma generator according to one embodiment includes a chamber for confining a feed gas. An anode...
7084572 Plasma-accelerator configuration  
The invention relates to various advantageous embodiments of a plasma-accelerator configuration, especially for the configuration and design of electron sources used for ionizing the working gas...
7084407 Ion beam extractor with counterbore  
An extractor system for a plasma ion source has a single (first) electrode with one or more apertures, or a pair of spaced electrodes, a first or plasma forming electrode and a second or extraction...
7079085 Antenna structure for inductively coupled plasma generator  
An antenna structure for an inductively coupled plasma generator suitable for processing large-diameter wafers or large, flat-panel display devices by making a plasma density distribution uniform...