Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Process fluid path switching in recipe operations
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Application No.: US17955987Application Date: 2022-09-29
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Publication No.: US11714430B2Publication Date: 2023-08-01
- Inventor: Mitesh Sanghvi , Venkatanarayana Shankaramurthy , Peter Standish , Anton Baryshnikov , Thorsten Kril , Chahal Neema , Vishal Suresh Jamakhandi , Abhijit Ashok Kangude
- 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: Lowenstein Sandler LLP
- Main IPC: G05D7/06
- IPC: G05D7/06 ; G05B19/042 ; C23C16/52

Abstract:
A method includes identifying time values for a length of time to carry out process fluid delivery within multiple processing chambers that concurrently process multiple substrates; translating each time value to a recipe parameter for execution of an operation of a processing recipe; and causing the operation to be performed using each recipe parameter as a control value to control valves of a fluid panel of the multiple processing chambers. For each processing chamber of the multiple processing chambers, selectively controlling process fluid flow to the process chamber for a first period of time corresponding to a time value of the set of time values and to a divert foreline of the process chamber for a second period of time.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230021640A1 PROCESS FLUID PATH SWITCHING IN RECIPE OPERATIONS Public/Granted day:2023-01-26
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