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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2023
Watlow Electric Manufacturing Company, St. Louis, MO (US);
Michael Parker, Brentwood, CA (US);
Alfred Grant Elliot, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Brent Donald Alfred Elliot, Cupertino, CA (US);
Frank Balma, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Richard Erich Schuster, Milpitas, CA (US);
Dennis George Rex, Williams, OR (US);
Alexander Veytser, Mountain View, CA (US);
WATLOW ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING COMPANY, St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
An electrostatic chuck includes a ceramic top plate layer made of a beryllium oxide material, a ceramic bottom plate layer made of a beryllium oxide material, a ceramic middle plate layer disposed between the ceramic top plate layer and the ceramic bottom plate layer, an electrode layer disposed between the ceramic top plate layer and the ceramic middle plate layer, and a heater layer disposed between the ceramic middle plate layer and the ceramic bottom plate layer. The electrode layer joins and hermetically seals the ceramic top plate layer to the ceramic middle plate layer, and the heater layer joins and hermetically seals the ceramic middle plate layer to the ceramic bottom plate layer.