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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 04, 2009
Applicant:
Peter Maschwitz, Sebastopol, CA (US);
Inventor:
Peter Maschwitz, Sebastopol, CA (US);
Assignees:
AGC Flat Glass North America, Inc., Alpharetta, GA (US);
Asahi Glass Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
AGC Glass Europe, Brussels, BE;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05H 1/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention provides novel plasma sources useful in the thin film coating arts and methods of using the same. More specifically, the present invention provides novel linear and two dimensional plasma sources that produce linear and two dimensional plasmas, respectively, that are useful for plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition. The present invention also provides methods of making thin film coatings and methods of increasing the coating efficiencies of such methods.