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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:
Sep. 02, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jeffrey A. Tobin, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jean Qing Lu, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Thomas Mountsier, San Jose, CA (US);
Hong Mei Zhang, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Novellus Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C 1/435 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C 1/435 ;
Abstract
A hollow cathode magnetron comprises an open top target within a hollow cathode. The open top target can be biased to a negative potential so as to form an electric field within the cathode to generate a plasma. The magnetron uses at least one electromagnetic coil to shape and maintain a density of the plasma within the cathode. The magnetron also has an anode located beneath the cathode. The open top target can have one of several different geometries including flat annular, conical and cylindrical, etc.