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Details
Inventors: Gegenwart, Rainer; Gesche, Roland; Kretschmer, Karl-Heinz; Ritter, Jochen; Noll, Sonja;
Assignee: Leybold Aktiengesellschaft (Hanau, DE)
Primary Examiner: Paschall; Mark H.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Felfe & Lynch

Apparatus for thin-coating processes for the treatment of substrates (8) of large surface area using a plasma (6) which is excited by microwaves (M) and the latter are coupled from a source by means of a waveguide (1) consisting of at least one hollow conductor (1), as well as by means of a horn antenna, into a plasma chamber (5), the waveguide (W) having a substantially rectangular aperture, an area is provided at the end of the hollow conductor (Q) with a slit-like constriction (Q), a rectangular horn (2) adjoins this area, and a compensation area (3) is provided between the largest aperture of the rectangular horn (2), as well as of the plasma chamber (5).

DETAILED DESCRIPTION We claim: 1.
Apparatus for thin-coating processes for the treatment of substrates of large surface area, with substrate area dimensions between 500-1,000 mm by 500-1,000 mm, using a plasma which is excited by microwaves, and comprising: waveguide means including at least one hollow conductor for coupling microwaves from a source, a rectangular horn, a plasma chamber, a window permeable to electromagnetic waves and separating the waveguide from the plasma chamber, the waveguide having a substantially rectangular aperture comprising an area with a slit-like constriction at an end of the hollow conductor, the rectangular horn directly adjoining this area, and a compensation area being between a greatest aperture of the rectangular horn and of the plasma chamber, the rectangular horn having the greatest aperture area adjacent the compensation area, the rectangular horn having a smallest aperture area adjacent the end of the hollow conductor with the slit-like construction, the compensation area being so dimensioned in its length that the microwaves, upon entering the plasma chamber (5), have an approximately planar phase front which runs substantially parallel to the plane of the window, as well as an approximately uniform amplitude distribution.
2.
Apparatus according to claim 1, in which the waveguide (W) as regards its longitudinal axis X--X is made substantially mirror-image symmetrical.
3.
Apparatus according to claims 1, in which the waveguide (W) has in an area between the compensation area (3) and the plasma chamber (5) a funnel-shaped flaring (K) of the aperture.
4.
Apparatus according to claim 1, in which the rectangular horn (2) has a funnel-like flaring, the funnel-like flaring and the flaring (K) between the compensation area (3) and the plasma chamber (5) are formed each only in a coordinate direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis X--X of the waveguide.
5.
Apparatus according to claim 4, in which a substantially triangular surface of projection of the rectangular horn (2) is disposed perpendicular to a projection surface of the flaring (K)



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