Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Counter based time compensation to reduce process shifting in reactive magnetron sputtering reactor
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Application No.: US15007181Application Date: 2016-01-26
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Publication No.: US10400327B2Publication Date: 2019-09-03
- Inventor: Mohammad Kamruzzaman Chowdhury , Zhenbin Ge , Adolph Miller Allen
- Applicant: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
- Current Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Moser Taboada
- Agent Alan Taboada
- Main IPC: C23C14/34
- IPC: C23C14/34 ; C23C14/35 ; C23C14/54 ; H01J37/34 ; C23C14/52

Abstract:
A method of processing a substrate includes: sputtering target material for a first amount of time using a first plasma formed from an inert gas and a first amount of power; determining a first counter, based on a product of a flow rate of the inert gas, the first amount of power, and the first amount of time; sputtering a metal compound material for a second amount of time using a second plasma formed from a process gas comprising a reactive gas and an inert gas and a second amount of power; determining a second counter based on a product of a flow rate of the process gas, the second amount of power, and the second amount of time; determining a third counter; and depositing a metal compound layer onto a predetermined number of substrates, wherein a deposition time for each substrate is adjusted based on the third counter.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160222503A1 COUNTER BASED TIME COMPENSATION TO REDUCE PROCESS SHIFTING IN REACTIVE MAGNETRON SPUTTERING REACTOR Public/Granted day:2016-08-04
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