Patent ID: 9558915
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: B82B,G03F,H01J,Y10T

Claim:
1. An imaging apparatus comprising: a first apparatus comprising a first substrate with a multitude of imaging elements arrayed thereupon, wherein the imaging elements are capable of emitting an imaging signal from their structure to a material sensitive to their emissions on a surface in a vicinity of the first apparatus, wherein the imaging elements are emission tips formed into silicon deposited into trenches, and wherein the emission tips protrude from a backside of a base layer into a front-side of which the trenches are etched, and wherein there are more than 1000 emission tips in the first apparatus; a support component for a second substrate to be processed by the imaging apparatus; an alignment feature and alignment apparatus to measure the alignment feature; and a processor operant to collect data from imaging apparatus components, process the data and control imaging apparatus components based on the data.