Wafer platen thermosyphon cooling system

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9514916
APP PUB NO 20140262157A1
SERIAL NO

13835317

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Disclosed is a thermosyphon system for cooling a platen in an ion implantation system. The thermosyphon system may include a vacuum chamber housing at least one wafer platen and a phase separator tank operative to contain both a liquid and gas phases of an element. A re-condensing cold head is exposed within the phase separator tank and is operative to condense the element from its gas phase to its liquid phase. This creates a convection driven closed loop pipe configuration. The closed loop pipe configuration includes a liquid phase pipe to carry the lower temperature liquid phase from the phase separator tank to the platen in the vacuum chamber. A reaction with the warmer platen converts the liquid phase to the gas phase. A gas phase pipe carries the higher temperature gas phase from the platen in the vacuum chamber back to the phase separator tank.

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  • VARIAN SEMICONDUCTOR EQUIPMENT ASSOCIATES, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Citver, Gregory Danvers, US 8 40
Fish, Roger B Beford, US 21 449

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