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- From: cdl@chiton.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein)
- Subject: Re: Microwave Oven Plasma Etcher? (definitions)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.165141.18098@chiton.ucsd.edu>
- Keywords: microwave, Reike and Hartree diagrams, Gerling Labs
- Organization: Marine Physical Lab, UC San Diego
- References: <rich.726361718@pencil> <1993Jan7.005550.6869@kodak.kodak.com> <1ii7fgINNh20@shelley.u.washington.edu>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 16:51:41 GMT
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- In article <1ii7fgINNh20@shelley.u.washington.edu> whit@carson.u.washington.edu (John Whitmore) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan7.005550.6869@kodak.kodak.com> ornitz@kodak.kodak.com (Barry x24904/ER/167B-TED) writes:
- >
- > In the context of the original question (lowering the power
- >density in the microwave oven), this is irrelevant. First, the
- >load is the contents of the microwave oven (and this can, we all know,
- >vary quite a lot without stalling the oven). Second, we don't
- >care about the exact frequency (nor the exact power); only large
- >power-output changes are of interest.
-
- Most of the higher class microwave ovens I have seen vary the (time)
- average power output by varying the duty cycle of the magnetron.
-
- Older ones do this on ten-second time scale (power knob changes the
- duty cycle between 1 and 10 seconds out of every 10). Newer ones
- with electronic controls seem to change the duty cycle on about a
- 1/4 second time scale. Maybe this would be helpful, depending on
- the thermal time constant of your plasma etching process.
-
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