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- From: ornitz@kodak.kodak.com (Barry x24904/ER/167B-TED)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Microwave Oven Plasma Etcher?
- Keywords: microwave, Reike and Hartree diagrams, Gerling Labs
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.160107.19682@kodak.kodak.com>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 16:01:07 GMT
- References: <15340.2b4a1345@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu>
- Sender: Barry L. Ornitz
- Followup-To: sci.electronics
- Organization: Eastman Chemical Company
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- In article <15340.2b4a1345@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu>
- edharris@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu writes:
- >I'd like to use a small microwave oven ( will a small vacuum chamber inside)
- >to generate reactive plasmas ( O2 etc) for cleaning and etching in our lab.
- >The idea sort of works, but even the smallest ovens (400 Watts or so)
- >generate so much heat that they tend to burn samples more than etch them...
- >Does anyone know how to lower the power output of the magnatron, or is it
- >possible at all? I'd like to cut the power to 50W or so...
-
- Reducing the power of a home microwave oven is not practical. These things are
- designed to operate full on or full off. Their power supplies usually use
- special transformers with high leakage reactance to limit the current so if
- you change the tube operating conditions much, you will have to come up with a
- new power supply too. Magnetrons designed to operate over wide power ranges
- usually use external electromagnets so you can adjust the field as the voltages
- are varied. A company in California, Gerling Labs (recently sold to another
- company but I cannot remember the name), makes a nice variable power microwave
- system with waveguide output, directional power sensors, etc. rated for a few
- watts to 3 KW. It is probably overkill for your application. Finding Reike and
- Hartree diagrams for the tubes used in home ovens will be necessary if you
- plan to modify the power supply in your home-style oven.
-
- A simple suggestion would be to place a few beakers of water in your oven
- along with your etch cell. Much of the energy would go into heating the water.
-
- Barry
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