Method and apparatus for treating surface including virtual anode

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6179983
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08969267

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An apparatus for depositing an electrical conductive layer on the surface of a wafer includes a virtual anode located between the actual anode and the wafer. The virtual anode modifies the electric current flux and plating solution flow between the actual anode and the wafer to thereby modify the thickness profile of the deposited electrically conductive layer on the wafer. The virtual anode can have openings through which the electrical current flux passes. By selectively varying the radius, length, or both, of the openings, any desired thickness profile of the deposited electrically conductive layer on the wafer can be readily obtained.

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NOVELLUS SYSTEMS INC3970 NORTH FIRST STREET SAN JOSE CA 95134

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Reid, Jonathan David Sherwood, OR 30 741
Taatjes, Steve West Linn, OR 6 578

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