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公开(公告)号:US20240429088A1
公开(公告)日:2024-12-26
申请号:US18823303
申请日:2024-09-03
Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
Inventor: Michael R. RICE , Yogananda SARODE VISHWANATH , Sunil SRINIVASAN , Rajinder DHINDSA , Steven E. BABAYAN , Olivier LUERE , Denis Martin KOOSAU , Imad YOUSIF
IPC: H01L21/687 , H01J37/32 , H01L21/67 , H01L21/683
Abstract: Apparatuses including a height-adjustable edge ring, and methods for use thereof are described herein. In one example, a process kit for processing a substrate is provided. The process kit has a support ring comprising an upper surface having an inner edge disposed at a first height and an outward edge disposed at a second height less than the first height, the inner edge having a greater thickness than the outward edge. An edge ring is disposed on the support ring, an inner surface of the edge ring interfaced with the inner edge of the support ring. A cover ring is disposed outward of the edge ring, the edge ring independently moveable relative to the support ring and the cover ring. Push pins are disposed inward of the cover ring, the push pins operable to elevate the edge ring while constraining radial movement of the support ring.
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公开(公告)号:US20220037121A1
公开(公告)日:2022-02-03
申请号:US17315234
申请日:2021-05-07
Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
Inventor: Leonid DORF , Rajinder DHINDSA , James ROGERS , Daniel Sang BYUN , Evgeny KAMENETSKIY , Yue GUO , Kartik RAMASWAMY , Valentin N. TODOROW , Olivier LUERE
IPC: H01J37/32 , H01L21/683 , H01L21/3065
Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provided herein include an apparatus and method for the plasma processing of a substrate in a processing chamber. More specifically, embodiments of this disclosure describe a biasing scheme that is configured to provide a radio frequency (RF) generated RF waveform from an RF generator to one or more electrodes within a processing chamber and a pulsed-voltage (PV) waveform delivered from one or more pulsed-voltage (PV) generators to the one or more electrodes within the processing chamber. The plasma process(es) disclosed herein can be used to control the shape of an ion energy distribution function (IEDF) and the interaction of the plasma with a surface of a substrate during plasma processing.
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公开(公告)号:US20200234922A1
公开(公告)日:2020-07-23
申请号:US16790086
申请日:2020-02-13
Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
Inventor: Leonid DORF , Evgeny KAMENETSKIY , James ROGERS , Olivier LUERE , Rajinder DHINDSA , Viacheslav PLOTNIKOV
IPC: H01J37/32 , H01L21/311
Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure describe a feedback loop that can be used to maintain a nearly constant sheath voltage and thus creating a mono-energetic IEDF at the surface of the substrate. The system described herein consequently enables a precise control over the shape of IEDF and the profile of the features formed in the surface of the substrate.
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公开(公告)号:US20200027717A1
公开(公告)日:2020-01-23
申请号:US16391219
申请日:2019-04-22
Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
Inventor: Sang Wook PARK , Sunil SRINIVASAN , Rajinder DHINDSA , Jonathan Sungehul KIM , Lin YU , Zhonghua YAO , Olivier LUERE
IPC: H01L21/02 , C23C16/455 , C23C16/40 , C23C16/34
Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for forming a desired material layer on a substrate between, during, prior to or after a patterning process. In one embodiment, a method for forming a material layer on a substrate includes pulsing a first gas precursor onto a surface of a substrate, attaching a first element from the first gas precursor onto the surface of the substrate, maintaining a substrate temperature less than about 110 degrees Celsius, pulsing a second gas precursor onto the surface of the substrate, and attaching a second element from the second gas precursor to the first element on the surface of the substrate.
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公开(公告)号:US20190228952A1
公开(公告)日:2019-07-25
申请号:US16253655
申请日:2019-01-22
Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
Inventor: Leonid DORF , Anurag Kumar MISHRA , Olivier LUERE , Rajinder DHINDSA , James ROGERS , Denis M. KOOSAU , Sunil SRINIVASAN
IPC: H01J37/32 , H01L21/683 , H01L21/3065 , H01L21/67
Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to methods and related process equipment for forming structures on substrates, such as etching high aspect ratio structures within one or more layers formed over a substrate. The methods and related equipment described herein can improve the formation of the structures on substrates by controlling the curvature of the plasma-sheath boundary near the periphery of the substrate, for example, by generating a substantially flat plasma-sheath boundary over the entire substrate (i.e., center to edge). The methods and related equipment described below can provide control over the curvature of the plasma-sheath boundary, including generation of the flat plasma-sheath boundary by applying RF power to an edge ring surrounding the substrate using a separate and independent RF power source.
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公开(公告)号:US20190043697A1
公开(公告)日:2019-02-07
申请号:US16156733
申请日:2018-10-10
Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
Inventor: Olivier JOUBERT , Olivier LUERE , Vedapuram S. ACHUTHARAMAN
IPC: H01J37/32 , H01L21/687 , H01L21/67 , H01L21/3065 , C23C4/134 , C23C16/44 , C23C16/40 , C23C4/10 , C23C4/02 , C23C4/00
Abstract: A ring assembly for a substrate support is disclosed herein. The ring assembly has a ring shaped body. The ring shaped body has an inner diameter and an outer diameter, a top surface, an inner portion at the inner diameter, and an outer portion at the outer diameter. A carbon based coating is disposed on the top surface of the ring shaped body, wherein the carbon based coating is thicker on the inner portion of the ring shaped body than the outer portion of the ring shaped body.
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公开(公告)号:US20240395502A1
公开(公告)日:2024-11-28
申请号:US18791966
申请日:2024-08-01
Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
Inventor: Leonid DORF , Evgeny KAMENETSKIY , James ROGERS , Olivier LUERE , Rajinder DHINDSA , Viacheslav PLOTNIKOV
IPC: H01J37/32 , H01L21/311 , H01L21/683
Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure describe a feedback loop that can be used to maintain a nearly constant sheath voltage and thus creating a mono-energetic IEDF at the surface of the substrate. The system described herein consequently enables a precise control over the shape of IEDF and the profile of the features formed in the surface of the substrate.
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公开(公告)号:US20230030927A1
公开(公告)日:2023-02-02
申请号:US17959074
申请日:2022-10-03
Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
Inventor: Leonid DORF , Rajinder DHINDSA , James ROGERS , Daniel Sang BYUN , Evgeny KAMENETSKIY , Yue GUO , Kartik RAMASWAMY , Valentin N. TODOROW , Olivier LUERE , Linying CUI
IPC: H01J37/32 , H01L21/311 , H01L21/3065 , H01L21/683
Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provided herein include an apparatus and method for the plasma processing of a substrate in a processing chamber. More specifically, embodiments of this disclosure describe a biasing scheme that is configured to provide a radio frequency (RF) generated RF waveform from an RF generator to one or more electrodes within a processing chamber and a pulsed-voltage (PV) waveform delivered from one or more pulsed-voltage (PV) generators to the one or more electrodes within the processing chamber. The plasma process(es) disclosed herein can be used to control the shape of an ion energy distribution function (IEDF) and the interaction of the plasma with a surface of a substrate during plasma processing.
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公开(公告)号:US20200352017A1
公开(公告)日:2020-11-05
申请号:US16933311
申请日:2020-07-20
Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
Inventor: Leonid DORF , Olivier LUERE , Rajinder DHINDSA , James ROGERS , Sunil SRINIVASAN , Anurag Kumar MISHRA
Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure describe an electrode biasing scheme that enables maintaining a nearly constant sheath voltage and thus creating a mono-energetic IEDF at the surface of the substrate that consequently enables a precise control over the shape of IEDF and the profile of the features formed in the surface of the substrate.
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公开(公告)号:US20200243303A1
公开(公告)日:2020-07-30
申请号:US16355153
申请日:2019-03-15
Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
Inventor: Anurag Kumar MISHRA , James ROGERS , Leonid DORF , Rajinder DHINDSA , Olivier LUERE
IPC: H01J37/32 , H01L21/683
Abstract: Embodiments described herein are applicable for use in all types of plasma assisted or plasma enhanced processing chambers and also for methods of plasma assisted or plasma enhanced processing of a substrate. More specifically, embodiments of this disclosure include a broadband filter assembly, also referred to herein as a filter assembly, that is configured to reduce and/or prevent RF leakage currents from being transferred from one or more RF driven components to a ground through other electrical components that are directly or indirectly electrically coupled to the RF driven components and ground with high input impedance (low current loss) making it compatible with shaped DC pulse bias applications.
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