Invention Grant
- Patent Title: RF clean system for electrostatic elements
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Application No.: US15427336Application Date: 2017-02-08
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Publication No.: US10410844B2Publication Date: 2019-09-10
- Inventor: Kevin Anglin , Brant S. Binns , Peter F. Kurunczi , Jay T. Scheuer , Eric Hermanson , Alexandre Likhanskii
- Applicant: Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US MA Gloucester
- Assignee: VARIAN SEMICONDUCTOR EQUIPMENT ASSOCIATES, INC.
- Current Assignee: VARIAN SEMICONDUCTOR EQUIPMENT ASSOCIATES, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Gloucester
- Main IPC: H01J37/36
- IPC: H01J37/36 ; B08B7/00 ; H01J37/32 ; H01J37/317 ; B08B5/00

Abstract:
Provided herein are approaches for in-situ plasma cleaning of one or more components of an ion implantation system. In one approach, the component may include a beam-line component, such as an energy purity module, having a plurality of conductive beam optics contained therein. The system further includes a power supply system for supplying a voltage and a current to the beam-line component during a cleaning mode, wherein the power supply system may include a first power plug coupled to a first subset of the plurality of conductive beam optics and a second power plug coupled to a second subset of the plurality of conductive beam optics. During a cleaning mode, the voltage and current may be simultaneously supplied and split between each of the first and second power plugs.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180166261A1 RF CLEAN SYSTEM FOR ELECTROSTATIC ELEMENTS Public/Granted day:2018-06-14
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