Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Chamber with individually controllable plasma generation regions for a reactor for processing a workpiece
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Application No.: US16828694Application Date: 2020-03-24
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Publication No.: US10957518B2Publication Date: 2021-03-23
- Inventor: Kartik Ramaswamy , Lawrence Wong , Steven Lane , Yang Yang , Srinivas D. Nemani , Praburam Gopalraja
- 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: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Main IPC: H01J37/32
- IPC: H01J37/32 ; H01H1/46

Abstract:
A plasma reactor includes a processing chamber having a lower processing portion having an axis of symmetry and an array of cavities extending upwardly from the lower processing portion. A gas distributor couples plural gas sources to a plurality of gas inlets of the cavities, and the gas distributor includes a plurality of valves with each valve selectively connecting a respective gas inlet to one of the plural gas sources. Power is applied by an array of conductors that includes a respective conductor for each respective cavity with each conductor adjacent and surrounding a cavity. A power distributor couples a power source and the array of conductors, and the power distributor includes a plurality of switches with a switch for each respective conductor.
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