Invention Application
- Patent Title: INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA SOURCE
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Application No.: US15727998Application Date: 2017-10-09
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Publication No.: US20190108974A1Publication Date: 2019-04-11
- Inventor: James ROGERS , John POULOSE
- Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
- Main IPC: H01J37/32
- IPC: H01J37/32

Abstract:
Disclosed herein is an apparatus for processing a substrate using an inductively coupled plasma source. An inductively coupled plasma source utilizes a power source, a shield member, and a coil coupled to the power source. In certain embodiments, the coils are arranged with a horizontal spiral grouping and a vertical extending helical grouping. The shield member, according to certain embodiments, utilizes a grounding member to function as a Faraday shield. The embodiments herein reduce parasitic losses and instabilities in the plasma created by the inductively coupled plasma in the substrate processing system.
Public/Granted literature
- US11521828B2 Inductively coupled plasma source Public/Granted day:2022-12-06
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