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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:
Jan. 28, 2025

Filed:

Oct. 28, 2019
Applicant:

Evatec Ag, Trübbach, CH;

Inventors:

Kai Wenz, Sargans, CH;

Boris Trajcevski, Sax, CH;

Philip Zeller, Sargans, CH;

Martin Kratzer, Feldkirch, AT;

Assignee:

EVATEC AG, Trübbach, CH;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C 14/00 (2006.01); C23C 14/06 (2006.01); C23C 14/34 (2006.01); C23C 14/35 (2006.01); C23C 14/50 (2006.01); C23C 14/56 (2006.01); H01J 37/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C 14/0063 (2013.01); C23C 14/0617 (2013.01); C23C 14/3407 (2013.01); C23C 14/354 (2013.01); C23C 14/50 (2013.01); C23C 14/56 (2013.01); H01J 37/3411 (2013.01); H01J 37/3429 (2013.01); H01J 37/3441 (2013.01); H01J 37/3488 (2013.01); H01J 37/3408 (2013.01);
Abstract

A vacuum apparatus to deposit a compound layer on at least one plate shaped substrate by sputtering. The apparatus including a vacuum chamber with side walls around a central axis. The chamber includes at least one inlet for a process gas, at least one inlet for an inert gas, a substrate handling opening, a pedestal including an electrostatic chuck formed as a substrate support in a central lower area of a sputter compartment, a magnetron sputter source including the target at the frontside and a magnet-system at the backside of the source, an anode looping around the target and at least an upper part of the pedestal and a pump compartment connected to a bottom of the sputter compartment by a flow labyrinth. A vacuum pump system is connected to the pump compartment.


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