Patents by Inventor Johannes Kappeler

Johannes Kappeler has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20030221624
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for depositing especially, crystalline layers onto one or more, especially, also crystalline substrates in a process chamber using reaction gases which are guided into said process chamber, where they undergo pyrolytic reaction. The device has a heatable support plate wherein at least one substrate holder lies loosely, especially rotationally, with its surface flush with the surroundings. A compensation plate which adjoins the at least one substrate holder, following the contours of the same, is provided on the support plate in order to keep the isothermal profile on the support plate as flat as possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2003
    Publication date: December 4, 2003
    Inventors: Holger Jurgensen, Johannes Kappeler, Gerhard Karl Strauch
  • Publication number: 20030217696
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for the deposition of in particular, crystalline layers on one or several, in particular, equally crystalline substrates, comprising a process chamber, arranged in a reactor housing, which may be charged with the substrates from above, by means of a reactor housing opening which may be sealed by a cover. The reactor housing opening opens out into a glove box, in particular flushed with highly pure gas and connects electricity, liquid or gas supply lines to the cover. According to the invention, the connection of supply lines for electricity, fluid or gas sources arranged outside the glove box to the cover of the reactor housing arranged within the glove box may be improved, whereby the electricity, fluid or gas supply lines run freely, from outside the glove box, through a flexible tube which is sealed atone end to a flange arrangement rigidly fixed to the cover and sealed at the other end to an opening in the glove box wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2003
    Publication date: November 27, 2003
    Inventors: Holger Jurgensen, Gerhard Karl Strauch, Johannes Kappeler
  • Publication number: 20030111015
    Abstract: The invention relates to a reaction chamber especially for carrying out substrate coating methods, such as CVD methods, characterized in that at least one opening is provided in at least one outer wall in which an HF and especially an RF feedthrough is inserted in a pressure or vacuum tight manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2002
    Publication date: June 19, 2003
    Inventors: Walter Franken, Gerd Strauch, Johannes Kappeler, Holger Jurgensen
  • Patent number: 6309465
    Abstract: A CVD reactor comprising: a reactor casing with a casing cover, a heated susceptor for one wafer or several wafers, which is disposed in the reactor casing, a fluid inlet unit including a plurality of openings facing said wafer or wafers through which the CVD media, which is moderately heated, enter the reactor, and a fluid outlet disposed on the periphery of the reactor casing, through which the introduced media is discharged; wherein the fluid outlet has roughly the shape of a disk with a plurality of outlet openings for the discharge of CVD media, and is disposed between the susceptor and the reactor cover in such a way that the fluid outlet is heated by the susceptor by radiation and hence adjusts itself to a temperature between the temperature of the susceptor and the reactor cover through which the CVD media enter in a moderately heated state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignee: Aixtron AG.
    Inventors: Holger Jürgensen, Marc Deschler, Gerd Strauch, Markus Schumacher, Johannes Käppeler