Patent ID: 7153363

Claim:
A method for producing substrates charged with a material, in which a) at least one substrate is introduced into an evacuated vacuum container; b) a surface of the substrate to be charged is exposed to a reactive gas which is adsorbed on the surface; c) the exposure of the surface to the reactive gas is terminated; d) the reactive gas adsorbed on the surface is allowed to react, and wherein d 1 ) the surface with the adsorbed reactive gas is exposed to a low-energy plasma discharge with ion energy E 10 on the surface of the substrate of 0<E 10 ≦20 eV and an electron energy E eo of 0 eV<E eo ≦100 eV, and d 2 ) the adsorbed reactive gas is allowed to react at least with the cooperation of plasma-generated ions and electrons and wherein further e) the density of the resulting material charging on said substrate surface is controlled to be within a range from isolated atoms to a density for forming a continuous monolayer.