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Ion implanting apparatus

Assignee: New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization
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Filing: 1993-04-07
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Granted: 1994-09-20
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Expires: 2013-04-07
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Abstract

Abstract An ion implanting apparatus includes a magnetic quadrupole lens disposed between an ion source and an RFQ accelerator. The magnetic quadrupole lens carries out mass spectrometry of an ion beam extracted from the ion source while converging the ion beam, and reduces the divergence of the ion beam due to the space charge effect as compared to an electrostatic quadrupole lens. The use of the magnetic quadrupole lens makes it possible to utilize to a maximum extent the ion beam extracted from the ion source and to restrict to a minimum the reduction in the current of the ion beam during passage of the ion beam, thereby making it possible to generate a high-energy ion beam having a large current on the order of several tens of milliamperes.

Inventors

  • 👤 Kensuke Amemiya
  • 👤 Yoshimi Hakamata
  • 👤 Katsumi Tokiguchi
  • 👤 Noriyuki Sakudo

Bibliographic Details

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Jurisdiction US
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Last Synchronized 2026-11-03 09:11
CPC Classifications
H; H01; H01J; H01J37/00; H01J37/30; H01J37/3002; H01J37/3007; H01J37/317; H01J37/3171

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 8
Claim 1
Independent Claim 85 words
An ion implanting unit comprising: an ion source for generating a beam including various kinds of ions, a multipole lens for carrying out mass spectrometry of a beam including various kinds of ions from said ion source while converging the beam, a radio frequency accelerator for accelerating an ion beam from said multipole lens to a predetermined energy level with a radio frequency field, and an ion implanting chamber for implanting an ion beam from said radio frequency accelerator into a material to be processed.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 85 words
An ion implanting unit comprising: an ion source for generating a beam including various kinds of ions, a multipole lens for carrying out mass spectrometry of a beam including various kinds of ions from said ion source while converging the beam, a radio frequency accelerator for accelerating an ion beam from said multipole lens to a predetermined energy level with a radio frequency field, and an ion implanting chamber for implanting an ion beam from said radio frequency accelerator into a material to be processed.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 19 words
An ion implanting unit according to claim 1, wherein said multipole lens is a magnetic field type quadrupole lens.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim 20 words
An ion implanting unit according to claim 2, wherein said magnetic field type quadrupole lens has at least three stages.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim 30 words
An ion implanting unit according to claim 1, wherein said radio frequency accelerator is a quadrupole particle accelerator including quadrupole electrodes having mutually facing planes formed in a wave shape.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim 27 words
An ion implanting unit according to claim 1, wherein said radio frequency accelerator includes an accelerating tube and radio frequency resonance circuit disposed outside said accelerating tube.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim 43 words
An ion implanting unit according to claim 1, further comprising a beam deflector disposed between said radio frequency accelerator and said ion implanting chamber, said beam deflector being for varying an angle at which ions are implanted into said material to be processed.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim 16 words
An ion implanting unit according to claim 6, wherein said beam deflector is a magnetic analyzer.

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