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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Michael H. Gilbert, Sr., North Olmsted, OH (US);
Assignee:
Advanced Ceramics Corporation, Lakewood, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B 9/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B 9/00 ;
Abstract
An article with an chemical vapor deposition (CVD) aluminum nitride coating is disclosed. The article is a heating element, wafer carrier, or electrostatic chuck. The article has a substrate made of a nitride of aluminum or boron, and further has one or more graphite elements for resistance heating or electromagnetic chucking or both. A pyrolytic boron nitride layer may be provided between the substrate and the CVD aluminum nitride coating, and may either encompass or exclude the graphite element or elements.