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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 1987
Filed:
May. 15, 1986
Applicant:
Inventor:
Donald M Mintz, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Varian Associates, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
20419225 ; 204298 ;
Abstract
An apparatus for planarizing an aluminum layer on a semiconductor wafer includes two deposition sources. The first source applies a refractory metal silicide layer to form a barrier to oxygen. The wafer is moved to a second deposition source which is an aluminum sputter device including a heater for the wafer, R.F. bias on the wafer and a magnetic mirror behind the wafer to move the plasma away from the wafer.