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Number: 204/192.32
Name: Chemistry: electrical and wave energy > Processes and products > Coating, forming or etching by sputtering > Sputter etching
Description: Processes for removing materials from a substrate wherein the substrate is subjected to bombardment by atomic particles (e.g., ions) and the activation energy is supplied at least in part by momentum transfer.


Sub-classes under this class:

Class Number Class Name Patents
204/192.35 Etching specified material 261
204/192.34 Ion beam etching (e.g., ion milling, etc.) 418
204/192.33 Measuring or testing (e.g., of operating parameters, end point determination, etc.) 190


Patents under this class:
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Patent Number Title Of Patent Date Issued
7611610 Method and apparatus for controlling topographical variation on a milled cross-section of a structure Nov. 3, 2009
7601246 Methods of sputtering a protective coating on a semiconductor substrate Oct. 13, 2009
7582490 Controlled fabrication of gaps in electrically conducting structures Sep. 1, 2009
7560658 Method for forming nanoscale features Jul. 14, 2009
7550174 Low contact resistance bonding method for bipolar plates in a PEM fuel cell Jun. 23, 2009
7509729 Method for making a perpendicular magnetic recording write head Mar. 31, 2009
7494575 Method for manufacturing a split probe Feb. 24, 2009
7423957 Optical information recording medium and method of manufacturing thereof, manufacturing apparatus, recording/reproducing method, and recording/reproducing apparatus Sep. 9, 2008
7403095 Thin film resistor structure and method of fabricating a thin film resistor structure Jul. 22, 2008
7386934 Double layer patterning and technique for milling patterns for a servo recording head Jun. 17, 2008
7378003 Thin-film magnetic recording head manufacture using selective imaging May. 27, 2008
7367999 Ultrafine particles and method and apparatus for producing the same May. 6, 2008
RE40264 Multi-temperature processing Apr. 29, 2008
H2209 Large area metallization pretreatment and surface activation system Feb. 5, 2008
7316764 System and method for performing sputter etching using independent ion and electron sources and a substrate biased with an a-symmetric bi-polar DC pulse signal Jan. 8, 2008
7313854 Method of manufacturing a tactile sensor Jan. 1, 2008
7300684 Method and system for coating internal surfaces of prefabricated process piping in the field Nov. 27, 2007
7270729 System for, and method of, etching a surface on a wafer Sep. 18, 2007
7259372 Processing method using probe of scanning probe microscope Aug. 21, 2007
7241397 Honeycomb optical window deposition shield and method for a plasma processing system Jul. 10, 2007
7238294 Procedure for etching of materials at the surface with focussed electron beam induced chemical reactions at said surface Jul. 3, 2007
7213322 Method for manufacturing surface acoustic wave device May. 8, 2007
7166233 Pulsed plasma processing method and apparatus Jan. 23, 2007
7159302 Method for manufacturing a perpendicular write head Jan. 9, 2007
7152305 Method for fabricating a magnetoresistive (MR) read head Dec. 26, 2006
7118657 Pulsed ion beam control of solid state features Oct. 10, 2006
7112286 Thin film resistor structure and method of fabricating a thin film resistor structure Sep. 26, 2006
7097745 Method of forming a tunneling magnetoresistive head Aug. 29, 2006
7007374 Method of making a magnetic head Mar. 7, 2006
6953519 Method of manufacturing the multi-tip probe, a multi-tip probe, and surface characteristic analysis apparatus Oct. 11, 2005
6942764 Arc-sprayed shield for pre-sputter etching chamber Sep. 13, 2005
6929721 Ion beam modification of residual stress gradients in thin film polycrystalline silicon membranes Aug. 16, 2005
6923891 Copper interconnects Aug. 2, 2005
6899918 Method for manufacturing electrode for lithium secondary battery May. 31, 2005
6896973 Method for manufacturing a recording medium May. 24, 2005
6896775 High-power pulsed magnetically enhanced plasma processing May. 24, 2005
6868856 Enhanced remote plasma cleaning Mar. 22, 2005
6852203 Three-dimensional periodical structure, its manufacturing method, and method of manufacturing film Feb. 8, 2005
6821624 Amorphous carbon covered member Nov. 23, 2004
6810566 Method of manufacturing a surface acoustic wave element Nov. 2, 2004
6802944 High density plasma CVD process for gapfill into high aspect ratio features Oct. 12, 2004
6800180 Resputtering to achieve better step coverage Oct. 5, 2004
6789297 Method of manufacturing a surface acoustic wave element Sep. 14, 2004
6783643 Control of solid state dimensional features Aug. 31, 2004
6753538 Electron beam processing Jun. 22, 2004
6746540 Wafer support plate assembly having recessed upper pad and vacuum processing apparatus comprising the same Jun. 8, 2004
6746727 Metal to ILD adhesion improvement by reactive sputtering Jun. 8, 2004
6740207 Electric supply unit and method for reducing arcing during sputtering May. 25, 2004
6730605 Redistribution of copper deposited films May. 4, 2004
6723213 Titanium target assembly for sputtering and method for preparing the same Apr. 20, 2004

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