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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2014
Raytheon Company, Waltham, MA (US);
Roland Gooch, Dallas, TX (US);
Adam M. Kennedy, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Stephen H. Black, Buellton, CA (US);
Thomas Allan Kocian, Dallas, TX (US);
Buu Diep, Murphy, TX (US);
RAYTHEON COMPANY, Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
A getter structure and method wherein a layer of seed material is deposited on a predetermined region of a surface of a structure under conditions to form a plurality of nucleation sites on a surface of the structure. The nucleation sites have an average height over the surface area of the predetermined region of less than one molecule thick. Subsequently a getter material is deposited over the surface to form a plurality of getter material members projecting outwardly from the nucleation sites.