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Patent US7838133 - Low-temperature, physical vapor deposition of barium strontium titanate by ... - Google PatentsSearch Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »Sign inAdvanced Patent SearchPatentsIn accordance with the present invention, deposition of perovskite material, for example barium strontium titanite (BST) film, by a pulsed-dc physical vapor deposition process or by an RF sputtering process is presented. Such a deposition can provide a high deposition rate deposition of a layer of perovskite....http://www.google.com/patents/US7838133?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7838133 - Low-temperature, physical vapor deposition of barium strontium titanate by pulsing a target with direct current through a narrow band rejection filter alternating voltage between positive/ negative; providing substrate with a radio frequency bias power corresponding to the rejection filter; capacitorsAdvanced Patent SearchPublication numberUS7838133 B2Publication typeGrantApplication numberUS 11/218,652Publication dateNov 23, 2010Filing dateSep 2, 2005Priority dateSep 2, 2005Fee statusPaidAlso published asCN101511493A, CN101511493B, EP1929491A2, EP1929491A4, US20070053139, WO2007027535A2, WO2007027535A3Publication number11218652, 218652, US 7838133 B2, US 7838133B2, US-B2-7838133, US7838133 B2, US7838133B2InventorsHongmei Zhang, Richard E. DemarayOriginal AssigneeSpringworks, LlcExport CitationBiBTeX, EndNote, RefManPatent Citations (105), Non-Patent Citations (309), Referenced by (1), Classifications (22), Legal Events (7) External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, EspacenetLow-temperature, physical vapor deposition of barium strontium titanate by pulsing a target with direct current through a narrow band rejection filter alternating voltage between positive/ negative; providing substrate with a radio frequency bias power corresponding to the rejection filter; capacitors
Deposition of materials by pulsed-DC, RF biased reactive ion deposition is described in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/101,863, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,378,356, entitled �Biased Pulse DC Reactive Sputtering of Oxide Films,�to Hongmei Zhang, et al., filed on Mar. 16, 2002. Preparation of targets is described in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/101,341, entitled �Rare-Earth Pre-Alloyed PVD Targets for Dielectric Planar Applications,� to Vassiliki Milonopoulou, et al., filed on Mar. 16, 2002 and now abandoned. U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/101,863 and U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/101,341 are each assigned to the same assignee as is the present disclosure and each is incorporated herein in their entirety. Deposition of oxide materials by RF sputtering has also been described in U.S. Pat. No. 6,506,289, which is also herein incorporated by reference in its entirety. Transparent oxide films can be deposited utilizing processes similar to those specifically described in U.S. Pat. No. 6,506,289 and U.S. application Ser. No. 10/101,863.
Depositing materials on a thin substrate involves holding and positioning the substrate during deposition. FIGS. 4A, 4B, 4C, and 4D illustrate a reusable fixture 400 for holding a thin film substrate. As shown in FIG. 4A, reusable fixture 400 includes a top portion 401 and a bottom portion 402 that are fastened together to secure the substrate. Thin substrate 301 is positioned between top portion 401 and bottom portion 402. As shown in FIG. 4B, top portion 701 and bottom portion 702 are such that substrate 301 is brought into a planar condition and subsequently clamped as top portion 401 is closed into bottom portion 402. Substrate 301 can be easily held by fixture 400 so that substrate 301 can be handled and positioned. In some embodiments, the corners of substrate 301, areas 403, are removed so that substrate 301 is more easily stretched by avoiding �wrap-around� corner clamping effects when top portion 401 is closed into bottom portion 402.
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