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Steven C. Shannon

Applied Materials: 37 patents #265 of 7,310Top 4%
NU North Carolina State University: 1 patents #675 of 1,607Top 45%
Overall (All Time): #83,223 of 4,157,543Top 3%
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Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
9475710 Very high frequency (VHF) driven atmospheric plasma sources and point of use fertigation of irrigation water utilizing plasma production of nitrogen bearing species Detlef Knappe, Brandon Byrns, Daniel Wooten, Alexander D. Lindsay 2016-10-25
8435379 Substrate cleaning chamber and cleaning and conditioning methods Vineet Haresh Mehta, Karl M. Brown, John Pipitone, Daniel J. Hoffman, Keith A. Miller +1 more 2013-05-07
8357264 Plasma reactor with plasma load impedance tuning for engineered transients by synchronized modulation of a source power or bias power RF generator Kartik Ramaswamy, Daniel J. Hoffman, Matthew L. Miller, Kenneth S. Collins 2013-01-22
8337661 Plasma reactor with plasma load impedance tuning for engineered transients by synchronized modulation of an unmatched low power RF generator Kartik Ramaswamy, Daniel J. Hoffman, Matthew L. Miller, Kenneth S. Collins 2012-12-25
8324525 Method of plasma load impedance tuning for engineered transients by synchronized modulation of a source power or bias power RF generator Kartik Ramaswamy, Daniel J. Hoffman, Matthew L. Miller, Kenneth S. Collins 2012-12-04
8237517 Apparatus for multiple frequency power application Jang-Gyoo Yang, Matthew L. Miller, Kartik Ramaswamy, James P. Cruse 2012-08-07
8092605 Magnetic confinement of a plasma Masao Drexel, James A. Stinnett, Ying Rui, Ying Xiao, Roger Alan Lindley +1 more 2012-01-10
8080479 Plasma process uniformity across a wafer by controlling a variable frequency coupled to a harmonic resonator Kenneth S. Collins, Hiroji Hanawa, Kartik Ramaswamy, Douglas A. Buchberger, Jr., Shahid Rauf +10 more 2011-12-20
8076247 Plasma process uniformity across a wafer by controlling RF phase between opposing electrodes Kenneth S. Collins, Hiroji Hanawa, Kartik Ramaswamy, Douglas A. Buchberger, Jr., Shahid Rauf +10 more 2011-12-13
8018164 Plasma reactor with high speed plasma load impedance tuning by modulation of different unmatched frequency sources Kartik Ramaswamy, Daniel J. Hoffman, Matthew L. Miller, Kenneth S. Collins 2011-09-13
8002945 Method of plasma load impedance tuning for engineered transients by synchronized modulation of an unmatched low power RF generator Kartik Ramaswamy, Daniel J. Hoffman, Matthew L. Miller, Kenneth S. Collins 2011-08-23
7994872 Apparatus for multiple frequency power application Jang-Gyoo Yang, Matthew L. Miller, Kartik Ramaswamy, James P. Cruse 2011-08-09
7988815 Plasma reactor with reduced electrical skew using electrical bypass elements Shahid Rauf, Kenneth S. Collins, Kallol Bera, Kartik Ramaswamy, Hiroji Hanawa +5 more 2011-08-02
7972467 Apparatus and method to confine plasma and reduce flow resistance in a plasma reactor Kallol Bera, Yan Ye, James D. Carducci, Daniel J. Hoffman, Douglas A. Buchberger, Jr. 2011-07-05
7967944 Method of plasma load impedance tuning by modulation of an unmatched low power RF generator Kartik Ramaswamy, Daniel J. Hoffman, Matthew L. Miller, Kenneth S. Collins 2011-06-28
7968469 Method of processing a workpiece in a plasma reactor with variable height ground return path to control plasma ion density uniformity Kenneth S. Collins, Hiroji Hanawa, Kartik Ramaswamy, Douglas A. Buchberger, Jr., Shahid Rauf +10 more 2011-06-28
7884025 Plasma process uniformity across a wafer by apportioning ground return path impedances among plural VHF sources Kenneth S. Collins, Hiroji Hanawa, Kartik Ramaswamy, Douglas A. Buchberger, Jr., Shahid Rauf +10 more 2011-02-08
7879185 Dual frequency RF match John Holland 2011-02-01
7879731 Improving plasma process uniformity across a wafer by apportioning power among plural VHF sources Kenneth S. Collins, Hiroji Hanawa, Kartik Ramaswamy, Douglas A. Buchberger, Jr., Shahid Rauf +10 more 2011-02-01
7848898 Method for monitoring process drift using plasma characteristics Daniel J. Hoffman, Jeremiah T. Pender, Tarreg Mawari 2010-12-07
7838430 Plasma control using dual cathode frequency mixing Dennis S. Grimard, Theodoros Panagopoulos, Daniel J. Hoffman, Michael G. Chafin, Troy S. Detrick +4 more 2010-11-23
7812278 Method for testing plasma reactor multi-frequency impedance match networks 2010-10-12
7813103 Time-based wafer de-chucking from an electrostatic chuck having separate RF BIAS and DC chucking electrodes Michael G. Chafin, Dennis S. Grimard 2010-10-12
7780866 Method of plasma confinement for enhancing magnetic control of plasma radial distribution Matthew L. Miller, Daniel J. Hoffman, Michael Kutney, James D. Carducci, Andrew Nguyen 2010-08-24
7777599 Methods and apparatus for controlling characteristics of a plasma Daniel J. Hoffman, Matthew L. Miller, Olga Regelman, Kenneth S. Collins, Kartik Ramaswamy +1 more 2010-08-17