Automatic end station for ion implantation system

Details Automatic end station for ion implantation system Automatic end station for ion implantation system

1975-02-11

1976-04-20

Rutledge, L. Dewayne

Metal treatment

Compositions

Heat treating

250492A, 357 91, H01L 2126

Patent

active

039516954

ABSTRACT:
An Automatic End Station arrangement for use in conjunction with ion implantation apparatus to provide continuous implantation of semi-conductor wafers is disclosed. Wafers are indexed one by one out of a standard cartridge onto a conveyor track from which they are directed into the slot of a downwardly directed slotted passageway which has been defined between two appropriately sealed plate members. The wafer slides down the passageway until it is situated adjacent to a portion of the passageway in communication with an ion implantation apparatus. The wafer is stopped at that point and the passageway sealed above and below the wafer by inflating a pair of resilient tubes which extend through one of the plate members and across the opening of the passageway. An airtight chamber is thus formed from which the air may be evacuated for effective ion implantation. After the appropriate ion dosage has been directed into the wafer, the ion beam is stopped, the inflatable tubes collapsed and the wafer dropped out of the implantation chamber and indexed into another cartridge for transportation, storage or further processing. Intermediate stage evacuation chambers may be provided before and after the implantation chamber in order to prevent exposure of the implantation chamber to the atmosphere.

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patent: 3887811 (1975-06-01), Livesay

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