DH

Daniel J. Hoffman

Applied Materials: 83 patents #62 of 7,310Top 1%
AI Advanced Energy Industries: 19 patents #6 of 173Top 4%
BA B/E Aerospace: 7 patents #80 of 810Top 10%
AS Advanced Thermal Sciences: 7 patents #3 of 15Top 20%
AP Aes Global Holdings Pte.: 4 patents #1 of 53Top 2%
UE US Dept of Energy: 2 patents #577 of 5,099Top 15%
MS Martin Marietta Energy Systems: 1 patents #113 of 298Top 40%
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116
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Showing 51–75 of 116 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
8092638 Capacitively coupled plasma reactor having a cooled/heated wafer support with uniform temperature distribution Paul Brillhart, Richard Fovell, Hamid Tavassoli, Douglas A. Buchberger, Jr., Douglas H. Burns +1 more 2012-01-10
8092639 Plasma reactor with feed forward thermal control system using a thermal model for accommodating RF power changes or wafer temperature changes Douglas A. Buchberger, Jr., Paul Brillhart, Richard Fovell, Hamid Tavassoli, Douglas H. Burns +5 more 2012-01-10
8070925 Physical vapor deposition reactor with circularly symmetric RF feed and DC feed to the sputter target Ying Rui, Karl M. Brown, John Pipitone, Lara Hawrylchak 2011-12-06
8048806 Methods to avoid unstable plasma states during a process transition Michael Kutney, Gerardo Delgadino, Ezra Robert Gold, Ashok Sinha, Xiaoye Zhao +2 more 2011-11-01
8048328 Method for shaping a magnetic field in a magnetic field-enhanced plasma reactor Roger Alan Lindley, Scott A. Hogenson 2011-11-01
8034180 Method of cooling a wafer support at a uniform temperature in a capacitively coupled plasma reactor Paul Brillhart, Richard Fovell, Douglas A. Buchberger, Jr., Douglas H. Burns, Kallol Bera 2011-10-11
8021521 Method for agile workpiece temperature control in a plasma reactor using a thermal model Douglas A. Buchberger, Jr., Paul Brillhart, Richard Fovell, Hamid Tavassoli, Douglas H. Burns +5 more 2011-09-20
8018164 Plasma reactor with high speed plasma load impedance tuning by modulation of different unmatched frequency sources Steven C. Shannon, Kartik Ramaswamy, Matthew L. Miller, Kenneth S. Collins 2011-09-13
8012304 Plasma reactor with a multiple zone thermal control feed forward control apparatus Paul Brillhart, Richard Fovell, Hamid Tavassoli, Douglas A. Buchberger, Jr., Douglas H. Burns +1 more 2011-09-06
8002945 Method of plasma load impedance tuning for engineered transients by synchronized modulation of an unmatched low power RF generator Steven C. Shannon, Kartik Ramaswamy, Matthew L. Miller, Kenneth S. Collins 2011-08-23
7988872 Method of operating a capacitively coupled plasma reactor with dual temperature control loops Paul Brillhart, Richard Fovell, Douglas A. Buchberger, Jr., Douglas H. Burns, Kallol Bera +4 more 2011-08-02
7972968 High density plasma gapfill deposition-etch-deposition process etchant Young S. Lee, Ying Rui, Dmitry Lubomirsky, Jang-Gyoo Yang, Anchuan Wang 2011-07-05
7972467 Apparatus and method to confine plasma and reduce flow resistance in a plasma reactor Kallol Bera, Yan Ye, James D. Carducci, Steven C. Shannon, Douglas A. Buchberger, Jr. 2011-07-05
7967944 Method of plasma load impedance tuning by modulation of an unmatched low power RF generator Steven C. Shannon, Kartik Ramaswamy, Matthew L. Miller, Kenneth S. Collins 2011-06-28
7955986 Capacitively coupled plasma reactor with magnetic plasma control Matthew L. Miller, Jang-Gyoo Yang, Heeyeop Chae, Michael Barnes, Tetsuya Ishikawa +1 more 2011-06-07
7943006 Method and apparatus for preventing arcing at ports exposed to a plasma in plasma processing chambers 2011-05-17
7910013 Method of controlling a chamber based upon predetermined concurrent behavior of selected plasma parameters as a function of source power, bias power and chamber pressure Ezra Robert Gold 2011-03-22
7901952 Plasma reactor control by translating desired values of M plasma parameters to values of N chamber parameters Ezra Robert Gold 2011-03-08
7883633 Method for shaping a magnetic field in a magnetic field-enhanced plasma reactor Roger Alan Lindley, Scott A. Hogenson 2011-02-08
7848898 Method for monitoring process drift using plasma characteristics Steven C. Shannon, Jeremiah T. Pender, Tarreg Mawari 2010-12-07
7838430 Plasma control using dual cathode frequency mixing Steven C. Shannon, Dennis S. Grimard, Theodoros Panagopoulos, Michael G. Chafin, Troy S. Detrick +4 more 2010-11-23
7795153 Method of controlling a chamber based upon predetermined concurrent behavior of selected plasma parameters as a function of selected chamber parameters Ezra Robert Gold 2010-09-14
7780866 Method of plasma confinement for enhancing magnetic control of plasma radial distribution Matthew L. Miller, Steven C. Shannon, Michael Kutney, James D. Carducci, Andrew Nguyen 2010-08-24
7777599 Methods and apparatus for controlling characteristics of a plasma Steven C. Shannon, Matthew L. Miller, Olga Regelman, Kenneth S. Collins, Kartik Ramaswamy +1 more 2010-08-17
7768765 Substrate support having heat transfer system Andrew Nguyen, Wing Cheng, Hiroji Hanawa, Semyon L. Kats, Kartik Ramaswamy +4 more 2010-08-03