| 摘要 |
A multiple phase switch mode plasma processing system generates alternating signals which may be coincidentally rectified or otherwise converted from AC to DC. The resulting DC signal has extremely reduced ripple and thus greatly reduced need for filtering of the generated DC output. Direct connection of the DC output is possible through a coupling having no substantially no reactive component. In situations where filtering is desirable the filtering can be reduced to about 1% of the energy supplied per cycle. This allows more accurate control of the power supply to the processing plasma. In addition, voltage regulation through frequency variation, resonance, circuit variation, and pulse width modulation can be utilized individually or in combination. The phase relationship of the multiple alternating signals may be determined so as to allow a regular phase relationship and thus minimize the small amount of ripple remaining.
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