Evatec Ag

Ben Curtis

Mohamed Elghazzali

Frantisek Balon

A plasma etching chamber including within a vacuum recipient: an etching compartment with a central axis and a surrounding wall enclosing the etching compartment; a pumping compartment with a metal surrounding wall having a feed through opening; a metal partition wall traverse to the axis separating the etching compartment from the pumping compartment; a pumping slit in or along the partition wall; a workpiece support; a metal tubular arrangement through the opening, including a first part coupled to the workpiece support and a second part coupled to the metal surrounding wall, the second part being electrically conductively joint to the metal surrounding wall; an Rf feed line through the tubular arrangement connected to the workpiece support; a system ground connector at an end of the second part; distributed metal connectors establishing electric contact from the metal surrounding wall, across the pumping slit via the partition wall to the first part.

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Plons, Switzerland

Ben Curtis