Cauldron Limited Partnership

Andrew W Johnson

William P Parker

Audrey C Engelsberg

An apparatus and method for removing undesired material from the surface of a substrate provides a flow of inert gas over the undesired material substrate surface while irradiating the undesired material with energetic photons directed at an angle that is oblique to the substrate. The invention enables removal of undesired material without altering the physical properties of the material underlying or adjacent the removed, undesired material. In certain circumstances, the non-perpendicular incidence permits effective removal where normal incidence caused damage to the substrate or poor removal or both.

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South Burlington, VT, United States of America

Andrew W Johnson