公开(公告)号：US20170365491A1

公开(公告)日：2017-12-21

申请号：US15689550

申请日：2017-08-29

Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.

Inventor： Banqiu Wu ,  Nag B. Patibandla ,  Toshiaki Fujita ,  Ralf Hofmann ,  Pravin K. Narwankar ,  Jeonghoon Oh ,  Srinivas Satya ,  Li-Qun Xia

IPC: H01L21/673 ,  C23C16/54 ,  C23C16/458 ,  H01L21/677 ,  C23C16/455

CPC classification number: H01L21/673 ,  C23C16/45546 ,  C23C16/4558 ,  C23C16/4584 ,  C23C16/54 ,  H01L21/67346 ,  H01L21/677

Abstract: A processing chamber having a plurality of movable substrate carriers stacked therein for continuously processing a plurality of substrates is provided. The movable substrate carrier is capable of being transported from outside of the processing chamber, e.g., being transferred from a load luck chamber, into the processing chamber and out of the processing chamber, e.g., being transferred into another load luck chamber. Process gases delivered into the processing chamber are spatially separated into a plurality of processing slots, and/or temporally controlled. The processing chamber can be part of a multi-chamber substrate processing system.

公开(公告)号：US10236198B2

公开(公告)日：2019-03-19

申请号：US15689550

申请日：2017-08-29

Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.

Inventor： Banqiu Wu ,  Nag B. Patibandla ,  Toshiaki Fujita ,  Ralf Hofmann ,  Pravin K. Narwankar ,  Jeonghoon Oh ,  Srinivas Satya ,  Li-Qun Xia

IPC: C23C16/458 ,  H01L21/673 ,  H01L21/677 ,  C23C16/455 ,  C23C16/54

Abstract: Methods of processing a plurality of substrates using a processing chamber with bottom and top openings and a plurality of processing slots are provided. A substrate positioned on a carrier is loaded into a first end of a processing chamber body through the bottom opening. The carrier is moved through a plurality of processing slots to a top opening at a second end of the chamber body and then removed from the processing chamber through the top opening.