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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2011
Mehrdad M. Moslehi, Los Altos, CA (US);
Karl-josef Kramer, San Jose, CA (US);
David Xuan-qi Wang, Fremont, CA (US);
Pawan Kapur, Burlingame, CA (US);
Somnath Nag, Saratoga, CA (US);
George D Kamian, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Jay Ashjaee, Cuptertino, CA (US);
Takao Yonehara, Milpitas, CA (US);
Mehrdad M. Moslehi, Los Altos, CA (US);
Karl-Josef Kramer, San Jose, CA (US);
David Xuan-Qi Wang, Fremont, CA (US);
Pawan Kapur, Burlingame, CA (US);
Somnath Nag, Saratoga, CA (US);
George D Kamian, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Jay Ashjaee, Cuptertino, CA (US);
Takao Yonehara, Milpitas, CA (US);
Solexel, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
This disclosure presents manufacturing methods and apparatus designs for making TFSSs from both sides of a re-usable semiconductor template, thus effectively increasing the substrate manufacturing throughput and reducing the substrate manufacturing cost. This approach also reduces the amortized starting template cost per manufactured substrate (TFSS) by about a factor of 2 for a given number of template reuse cycles.