Patent 7552521 was granted and assigned to Tokyo Electron on June, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An apparatus related to plasma chambers used for processing semiconductor substrates and specifically to improvements in pumping baffle plates used in plasma sources. An apparatus and method for making a baffle plate assembly formed from a modified baffle plate blank wherein a variety of pumping features are formed in the baffle plate blank and opened in a planar material removal operation.