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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 1993
Filed:
Sep. 06, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Thomas Martens, Krombach, DE;
Assignee:
Leybold Aktiengesellschaft, Hanau, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
20429803 ; 20419213 ;
Abstract
The invention relates to an arrangement for measuring the light radiation of a plasma with sputter cathodes. Herein a light-sensitive sensor (15) is acted upon by the light from an optical fiber or from a bundle of optical fibers (14) which is (are) guided through an opening (13) of the sputter cathode (8). In this way the light intensity of the sputter plasma in the region of the sputtering crater of a target (9) can be measured. Moreover, it is possible to measure in simple manner the light intensities of several regions of the plasma.