Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Tiled showerhead for a semiconductor chemical vapor deposition reactor
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Application No.: US14924488Application Date: 2015-10-27
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Publication No.: US10066297B2Publication Date: 2018-09-04
- Inventor: Gregg Higashi , Alexander Lerner , Khurshed Sorabji , Lori D. Washington , Andreas Hegedus
- Applicant: Alta Devices, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: ALTA DEVICES, INC.
- Current Assignee: ALTA DEVICES, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Agency: Arent Fox LLP
- Main IPC: C23C16/455
- IPC: C23C16/455 ; C23C16/44 ; H01J37/32 ; H01L21/67 ; H01L21/677

Abstract:
A showerhead for a semiconductor processing reactor formed by an array of showerhead tiles. Each showerhead tile has a plurality of process gas apertures, which may be in a central area of the tile or may extend over the entire tile. Each showerhead tile can be dimensioned for processing a respective substrate or a plurality of substrates or the array can be dimensioned for processing a substrate. An exhaust region surrounds the process gas apertures. The exhaust region has at least one exhaust aperture, and may include an exhaust slot, a plurality of connected exhaust slots or a plurality of exhaust apertures. The exhaust region surrounds the array of showerhead tiles, or a respective portion of the exhaust region surrounds the plurality of process gas apertures in each showerhead tile or group of showerhead tiles. A gas curtain aperture may be between the exhaust region and the process gas apertures of one of the showerhead tiles or adjacent to the central area of the tile.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160047042A1 TILED SHOWERHEAD FOR A SEMICONDUCTOR CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION REACTOR Public/Granted day:2016-02-18
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