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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.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2011

Filed:

Oct. 05, 2007
Applicant:

Cristopher M. Pavloff, San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventor:

Cristopher M. Pavloff, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C 14/35 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A sputtering chamber has a sputtering target comprising a backing plate and a sputtering plate. The backing plate comprises a backside surface having a plurality of concentric circular grooves and a plurality of arcuate channels which intersect the circular grooves. The sputtering target can be positioned abutting a heat exchanger housing which holds heat transfer fluid and a plurality of rotatable magnets.


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