Temperature probes for measuring substrate temperature
    4.
    发明授权
    Temperature probes for measuring substrate temperature 失效
    用于测量基板温度的温度探头

    公开(公告)号:US6079874A

    公开(公告)日:2000-06-27

    申请号:US19426

    申请日:1998-02-05

    摘要: An apparatus accurately measures a temperature of a substrate in a thermal processing chamber. The apparatus has a support structure to support the substrate within the thermal processing chamber. A first probe is provided with an input end positioned to receive radiation from the substrate during thermal processing. A second probe is also provided with an input end positioned to receive radiation from the substrate during thermal processing. The second probe is positioned such that it is angularly offset from the first probe so radiation provided at an output end of the second probe is out of phase with radiation provided at the output end of the first probe. A junction receives and combines radiation from the output ends of the first and second probes. The radiation is combined to provide an accurate representation of the temperature of a local region of the substrate by compensating for a temperature gradient between the support structure and the substrate.

    摘要翻译: 一种装置精确地测量热处理室中的衬底的温度。 该装置具有用于支撑热处理室内的基板的支撑结构。 第一探针设置有输入端,定位成在热处理期间接收来自衬底的辐射。 第二探针还设置有输入端,定位成在热处理期间接收来自衬底的辐射。 第二探针定位成使得其与第一探针成角度地偏移,使得在第二探针的输出端处提供的辐射与在第一探针的输出端处提供的辐射异相。 接头接收并组合来自第一和第二探头的输出端的辐射。 辐射被组合以通过补偿支撑结构和衬底之间的温度梯度来提供衬底的局部区域的温度的精确表示。

    Semiconductor processing furnace outflow cooling system
    5.
    发明授权
    Semiconductor processing furnace outflow cooling system 失效
    半导体加工炉流出冷却系统

    公开(公告)号:US5908292A

    公开(公告)日:1999-06-01

    申请号:US814722

    申请日:1997-03-07

    摘要: A vertically oriented thermal processor for processing batches of semiconductor wafers held within a processing chamber. The processing chamber is contained within a processing vessel. Processing gases are discharged through a processing chamber outflow. An outflow cooler is included to cool gases exhausting from the processing chamber outflow. The outflow cooler includes a fluid heat exchanger and a flow diverter which directs the exhausting gases against cooled walls of the outflow cooler. The cooler also preferably has a liner which lines a casing to which the heat exchanger is connected.

    摘要翻译: 一种垂直取向的热处理器,用于处理保存在处理室内的批次的半导体晶片。 处理室包含在处理容器内。 处理气体通过处理室流出而排出。 包括流出冷却器以冷却从处理室流出排出的气体。 流出冷却器包括一个流体热交换器和一个分流器,它将排出的气体引导到流出冷却器的冷却壁。 冷却器还优选地具有将热交换器连接到的壳体排列的衬套。

    Furnace sidewall temperature control system
    6.
    发明授权
    Furnace sidewall temperature control system 失效
    炉侧壁温度控制系统

    公开(公告)号:US5900177A

    公开(公告)日:1999-05-04

    申请号:US873351

    申请日:1997-06-11

    摘要: A vertical rapid thermal processing (RTP) system (10) is provided, comprising a vertical process chamber (20) extending along a longitudinal axis (X), and a movable platform (32) disposed within the process chamber and having a support surface upon which one or more substrates such as semiconductor wafers (W) may be mounted for processing. A temperature control subsystem (56, 58, 60) establishes a continuous temperature gradient within the vertical process chamber along the longitudinal axis. The temperature control subsystem comprises a plurality of chamber sidewall heating elements (24) located at different vertical positions along the longitudinal axis. Each of the plurality of heating elements is controlled independently of the other of the plurality of heating elements. The plurality of longitudinally oriented heating elements provides an active sidewall heating mechanism which results in a consistent and continuous temperature gradient within the chamber, independent of the position of the wafer within the chamber or the number of wafers which have been processed.

    摘要翻译: 提供了垂直快速热处理(RTP)系统(10),其包括沿着纵向轴线(X)延伸的垂直处理室(20)和设置在处理室内的可移动平台(32),并且具有支撑表面 可以安装一个或多个衬底,例如半导体晶片(W)用于处理。 温度控制子系统(56,58,60)沿着纵向轴线在垂直处理室内建立连续的温度梯度。 温度控制子系统包括沿着纵向轴线位于不同垂直位置的多个室侧壁加热元件(24)。 多个加热元件中的每一个独立于多个加热元件中的另一个加以控制。 多个纵向取向的加热元件提供主动侧壁加热机构,其导致腔室内的一致且连续的温度梯度,与晶片在腔室内的位置或已经被处理的晶片数量无关。

    RTP lamp design for oxidation and annealing

    公开(公告)号:US5762713A

    公开(公告)日:1998-06-09

    申请号:US756632

    申请日:1996-11-26

    IPC分类号: C23C16/48 C30B31/12 C23L16/00

    CPC分类号: C23C16/481 C30B31/12

    摘要: A RTP system and method. A first lamp zone (108) is located around a periphery of a wafer (102) for heating the center of the wafer (102) and a second lamp zone (114) is located around the periphery of the wafer (102) for heating the edge of the wafer (102). The chamber (104) includes highly reflective surfaces (106). Light from the first and second lamp zones (108, 114) is reflected off of the highly reflective surfaces (106) at least three time before reaching the wafer (102). Thus, the wafer (102) is isotropically heated and uniform wafer heating is achieved.