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Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2011

Filed:

Jul. 07, 2008
Applicants:

Alan Michael Chandler, Milton, VT (US);

Tushar Desai, South Burlington, VT (US);

Ellis Craig Hayford, Williston, VT (US);

Nicholas Mone, Jr., Essex Junction, VT (US);

James Spiros Nakos, Essex Junction, VT (US);

Inventors:

Alan Michael Chandler, Milton, VT (US);

Tushar Desai, South Burlington, VT (US);

Ellis Craig Hayford, Williston, VT (US);

Nicholas Mone, Jr., Essex Junction, VT (US);

James Spiros Nakos, Essex Junction, VT (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01K 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An apparatus. The apparatus including: a chamber having an interior surface; a pump port for evacuating the chamber; a substrate holder within the chamber; a charged particle beam within the chamber, the charged beam generated by a source and the charged particle beam striking the substrate; and one or more liners in contact with one or more different regions of the interior surface of the chamber, the liners preventing material generated by interaction of the charged beam and the substrate from coating the one or more different regions of the interior surface of the chamber.


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