Patent ID: 6365235
Filing Date: 2002-04-02
Classification: C23C,H01L

Abstract:
Surface treatment method, for condensed media, in the course of which at least one stream of active particles is created and directed at atmospheric pressure onto a surface which is to be treated, and caused to interact with said surface, wherein said active particles comprise activated particles, forming at first chemically active sites on said surface, and modifying particles subsequently occupying these sites, the energy of the activated particles being greater than the energy of break of inhibited surface bonds of said surface and lower than the energy of formation of radiative flaws on said surface, the density, at the level of the surface being treated, of the stream of activated particles and of the stream of modifying particles being greater than the quantity N/t, where N is the surface density of the inhibited bonds to be broken, and t is the presence time of any point of said surface beneath said at least one stream.