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Praburam Gopalraja

Applied Materials: 73 patents #84 of 7,310Top 2%
San Jose, CA: #463 of 32,062 inventorsTop 2%
California: #3,836 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #25,685 of 4,157,543Top 1%
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Showing 51–75 of 75 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
6451177 Vault shaped target and magnetron operable in two sputtering modes Jianming Fu, Fusen Chen, Girish Dixit, Zheng Xu, Wei Wang +1 more 2002-09-17
6444104 Sputtering target having an annular vault Jianming Fu 2002-09-03
6436251 Vault-shaped target and magnetron having both distributed and localized magnets Jianming Fu, Wei Wang 2002-08-20
6413382 Pulsed sputtering with a small rotating magnetron Wei Wang, Jianming Fu, Zheng Xu 2002-07-02
6409890 Method and apparatus for forming a uniform layer on a workpiece during sputtering Howard Grunes, Zheng Xu, John C. Forster, Ralf Hofmann, Anantha K. Subramani 2002-06-25
6406599 Magnetron with a rotating center magnet for a vault shaped sputtering target Anantha K. Subramani, Umesh M. Kelkar, Jianming Fu 2002-06-18
6368469 Coils for generating a plasma and for sputtering Jaim Nulman, Sergio Edelstein, Mani Subramani, Zheng Xu, Howard Grunes +2 more 2002-04-09
6358376 Biased shield in a magnetron sputter reactor Wei Wang, Jianming Fu 2002-03-19
6350353 Alternate steps of IMP and sputtering process to improve sidewall coverage Sergio Edelstein, Avi Tepman, Peijun Ding, Debabrata Ghosh, Nirmalya Maity 2002-02-26
6344419 Pulsed-mode RF bias for sidewall coverage improvement John C. Forster, Bradley O. Stimson, Liubo Hong 2002-02-05
D450070 Sputtering chamber coil Zheng Xu, Michael Rosenstein, John C. Forster 2001-11-06
6306265 High-density plasma for ionized metal deposition capable of exciting a plasma wave Jianming Fu, Fusen Chen, John C. Forster 2001-10-23
6277249 Integrated process for copper via filling using a magnetron and target producing highly energetic ions Jianming Fu, Fusen Chen, Girish Dixit, Zheng Xu, Sankaram Athreya +2 more 2001-08-21
6274008 Integrated process for copper via filling Jianming Fu, Fusen Chen, Girish Dixit, Zheng Xu, Sankaram Athreya +2 more 2001-08-14
6254738 Use of variable impedance having rotating core to control coil sputter distribution Bradley O. Stimson, Kenneth Smyth 2001-07-03
6251242 Magnetron and target producing an extended plasma region in a sputter reactor Jianming Fu 2001-06-26
D442852 Squared overlap coil John C. Forster, Michael Rosenstein 2001-05-29
D442853 Rounded overlap coil John C. Forster, Michael Rosenstein 2001-05-29
6235169 Modulated power for ionized metal plasma deposition John C. Forster, Zheng Xu, Bradley O. Stimson 2001-05-22
6221221 Apparatus for providing RF return current path control in a semiconductor wafer processing system Ayad A. Al-Shaikh, Michael Rosenstein, Bradley O. Stimson, Jianming Fu 2001-04-24
D440582 Sputtering chamber coil Zheng Xu, Michael Rosenstein, John C. Forster, Peijun Ding 2001-04-17
6193855 Use of modulated inductive power and bias power to reduce overhang and improve bottom coverage John C. Forster 2001-02-27
6146508 Sputtering method and apparatus with small diameter RF coil Zheng Xu, Ralf Hofmann 2000-11-14
6143140 Method and apparatus to improve the side wall and bottom coverage in IMP process by using magnetic field Wei Wang, Keith A. Miller, James Gogh 2000-11-07
6042700 Adjustment of deposition uniformity in an inductively coupled plasma source Murali Narasimhan 2000-03-28