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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2012
Tel Solar Ag, Trubbach, CH;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Neil Sykes, Yarnton, GB;
Yoshinari Sasaki, Tokyo, JP;
Hidehisa Murase, Tokyo, JP;
Naoki Yamada, Tokyo, JP;
Kosei Aso, Tokyo, JP;
TEL Solar AG, Trubbach, CH;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An ablation method including a steps of ablating a region of a substrate () by a laser beam (); and removing debris ablated from the region () by a flow of a fluid (), namely, a gas or vapor, a liquid or a combination of the fluids. The flow of fluid () is directed to flow over the region so as to entrap debris and thereafter remove the entrapped debris from the region by directing the flow of fluid, with any entrapped debris, away from region along a predetermined path () avoiding subsequent deposition of entrapped debris on the substrate.