Patent 10923321 was granted and assigned to Applied Materials on February, 2021 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Embodiments of this disclosure describe a feedback loop that can be used to maintain a nearly constant sheath voltage and thus creating a mono-energetic IEDF at the surface of the substrate. The system described herein consequently enables a precise control over the shape of IEDF and the profile of the features formed in the surface of the substrate.