Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Google Inc.

Applied Materials, Inc.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cypress Semiconductor Corporation

Sandia Corporation

Microsoft Corporation

Zheng Wang

Martin Lee Riker

Fuhong Zhang

Steven P Dodge

Gregory H Parks

Andrew Foster

Kristofer Noel Iverson

Adam Sah

Thai Tran

Benjamin Charles Appleton

Anthony Infante

Adam Paul Schuck

Nicholas Julian Pelly

James Robert MacGill

David Hearnden

Ramarathnam R Venkatesan

Xiaodong Wang

Steffen Gerd Meschkat

Emmett Walter Lalish

Lanlan Zhong

William Fruchterman

Steffen Meschkat

Ken B Pierce

Paul Kiely

Scott Arthur McFarling

Sunil Kumar Garg

Marin Soljacic

John Dimitris Joannopoulos

Adrian Mihail Marinescu

Connie P Wang

Roy H Olsson

Gavin M Gear

Garret Buban

Paul Davids

Thomas Dee McGuire

Wen Yu

Hoi Huu Vo

Peter Thomas Rakich

David Bradley Probert, Jr

Xu Chen

Robert J Chiu

Chris M White

Ihab Fathy El-Kady

Alvaro Collet Romea

Ming Chuang

Ryan Camacho

William Crow

Charles M Reinke

Erik Wilson

Patrick John Sweeney

Kris N Iverson

Vladimir Sisolak

Andrew David Foster

Mehmet Fatih Su

James Robert Macgill

Paul V Donlan

Yidong Chong

Lenka Slana

Dennis Evseev

Steven Craig Sullivan

A service may be provided that reads sensors, and that communicates information based on the sensor readings to applications. In one example, an operating system provides a sensor interface that allows programs that run on a machine to read the values of sensors (such as an accelerometer, light meter, etc.). A service may use the interface to read the value of sensors, and may receive subscriptions to sensor values from other programs. The service may then generate messages that contain the sensor value, and may provide these messages to programs that have subscribed to the messages. The messages may contain raw sensor data. Or, the messages may contain information that is derived from the sensor data and/or from other data.

Message communication of sensor and other data

Methods and apparatus to minimize electromagnetic interference between adjacent process chambers of a cluster tool are described. The start time of the subject recipe is controlled based on the electromagnetic process window of the subject process chamber, the electromagnetic window of the first adjacent process chamber and of an optional second adjacent process chamber. The start time of the subject process chamber is controlled to prevent temporal overlap of the electromagnetic window of the subject chamber with the electromagnetic window of an adjacent chamber.

Methods and apparatus to prevent interference between processing chambers

A collimator that is biasable is provided. The ability to bias the collimator allows control of the electric field through which the sputter species pass. In some implementations of the present disclosure, a collimator that has a high effective aspect ratio while maintaining a low aspect ratio along the periphery of the collimator of the hexagonal array of the collimator is provided. In some implementations, a collimator with a steep entry edge in the hexagonal array is provided. It has been found that use of a steep entry edge in the collimator reduces deposition overhang and clogging of the cells of the hexagonal array. These various features lead to improve film uniformity and extend the life of the collimator and process kit.

Biasable flux optimizer / collimator for PVD sputter chamber

Target profile for a physical vapor deposition chamber target

The claimed subject matter includes techniques for printing a three-dimensional (3D) object. An example system includes a network interface to obtain a 3D model from a client system. The example system also includes a print bureau data collection engine to identify capabilities of a plurality of print bureaus. The example system also includes a print bureau filter to compare characteristics of the 3D model with capabilities of the plurality of print bureaus to identify a subset of the plurality print bureaus that are able to print the 3D model and send the subset to the client system via the network interface.

Print bureau interface for three-dimensional printing

Described herein is a system and method for scanning a three-dimensional object using data from an infrared sensor. The data can be used during preprocessing, reconstructing and/or post processing of generation of a three-dimensional model. Data from an infrared sensor and data from a sensor (e.g., RGB sensor, a depth sensor, a camera, a scanner, a digital camera, a digital video camera, a web camera, depth sensor, etc.) can be utilized to generate a three-dimensional model of the three-dimensional object. For example, the data from the infrared sensor can be utilized to identify an item and to exclude the identified item from the generated three-dimensional model.

Three-dimensional object scan using data from infrared sensor

Collimator for a physical vapor deposition chamber

Systems, devices, and methods are described herein for transforming three dimensional (3D) video data into a 3D printable model. In one aspect, a method for transforming 3D video data may include receiving 3D video data indicated or selected for 3D printing. The selected portion or 3D video data, which may include a frame of the 3D video data, may be repaired or modified to generate a 3D model that define at least one enclosed volume. At least one of the enclosed volumes of the 3D video data may be re-oriented based on at least one capability of a target 3D printing device. In some aspects, the re-orienting may be performed to optimize at least one of a total print volume or print orientation of the at least one enclosed volume. In some aspects, the method may be performed in response to a single selection or action performed by a user.

3D printing using 3D video data

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