Patent ID: 11915906
Assignee: TEL MANUFACTURING AND ENGINEERING OF AMERICA, INC.
Field: Surface technology, coating (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC H  C | IPC C  H

Claim 8:
9. A method of gas cluster ion beam (GCIB) processing for a wafer, the method comprising:
forming a gas cluster beam by condensing a process gas;
ionizing the gas cluster beam to form a stationary GCIB, the stationary GCIB being directed into the a processing chamber comprising the wafer placed over a substrate holder in the processing chamber; and
exposing the wafer to the GCIB and scanning the wafer to be processed with the GCIB, the scanning comprising
synchronously driving two rotary drives disposed in a scanning chamber to generate two rotational motions, and
translating the two rotational motions, using a hinge system in the scanning chamber, to a planar motion of the substrate holder that is coplanar with a surface of the substrate holder.