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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2005
Filed:
May. 09, 2003
Applicants:
Gordon Robert Green, Bristol, GB;
Robert Kenneth Trowell, Bristol, GB;
Inventors:
Gordon Robert Green, Bristol, GB;
Robert Kenneth Trowell, Bristol, GB;
Assignee:
Trikon Technologies Limited, Newport, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C014/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
This invention relates to a shutter for use in physical vapour deposition apparatus having a chamber. The shutter, generally indicated at, is located in a side housingof the vacuum chamber, whilst sputtering is taking place. Once the substrateis treated, the substrate is removed from the chamber and the shutter is brought in to an operative position above a wafer pedestal or supportThe shutter is mounted on an armusing a fixing boss, the arm and the boss being magnetically coupled.