Patent ID: 9499908
Filing Date: 2016-11-22
CPC Classification: C23C

Claim Text:
1. A thin film deposition system for depositing a thin film on a moveable substrate using atmospheric pressure atomic-layer deposition, comprising: a chamber; a moveable substrate having a levitation stabilizing structure attached to and protruding from the moveable substrate that defines an enclosed interior impingement area of the moveable substrate; a stationary support located in the chamber proximate to the moveable substrate, the stationary support extending beyond the enclosed interior impingement area; and a pressurized-fluid source that provides a fluid flow through the stationary support that impinges on the moveable substrate within the enclosed interior impingement area of the moveable substrate sufficient to levitate the moveable substrate away from the stationary support due to a Bernoulli lift force caused by the impingement of the fluid flow onto the moveable substrate and expose the moveable substrate to the fluid, wherein fluid flow impinging on the levitation stabilizing structure restricts the lateral motion of the moveable substrate during levitation.