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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2024

Filed:

Oct. 22, 2019
Applicant:

Evatec Ag, Trübbach, CH;

Inventors:

Dominik Jaeger, Chur, CH;

Thomas Tschirky, Mels, CH;

Marco Rechsteiner, Werdenberg, CH;

Heinz Felzer, Landquart, CH;

Hartmut Rohrmann, Schriesheim, DE;

Assignee:

EVATEC AG, Trübbach, CH;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C 14/34 (2006.01); C23C 14/35 (2006.01); C23C 14/54 (2006.01); H01J 37/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C 14/3428 (2013.01); C23C 14/35 (2013.01); C23C 14/54 (2013.01); H01J 37/3405 (2013.01); H01J 37/3426 (2013.01); H01J 37/3435 (2013.01); H01J 37/3438 (2013.01); H01J 37/3441 (2013.01); H01J 2237/332 (2013.01);
Abstract

A sputtering device to sputter a liquid target. The sputtering device including a trough to receive a liquid target material and a device to stir or agitate the liquid target material. The device configured to degas the liquid target material or/and to dissipate solid particles or islands on a surface of the target or/and to move such particles or islands from an active surface region to a passive surface region and/or vice-versa, whereby the passive surface region is at least 50% less exposed to sputtering as the active surface region.


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