Invention Application
- Patent Title: METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SUPPLYING A CLEANING GAS INTO A PROCESS CHAMBER
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Application No.: US14932384Application Date: 2015-11-04
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Publication No.: US20160084400A1Publication Date: 2016-03-24
- Inventor: Ramprakash SANKARAKRISHNAN , Dale R. DU BOIS , Ganesh BALASUBRAMANIAN , Karthik JANAKIRAMAN , Juan Carlos ROCHA-ALVAREZ , Thomas NOWAK , Visweswaren SIVARAMAKRISHNAN , Hichem M'SAAD
- Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
- Main IPC: F16K31/06
- IPC: F16K31/06 ; F16K1/22

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for cleaning a process chamber are provided. In one embodiment, a process chamber is provided that includes a remote plasma source and a process chamber having at least two processing regions. Each processing region includes a substrate support assembly disposed in the processing region, a gas distribution system configured to provide gas into the processing region above the substrate support assembly, and a gas passage configured to provide gas into the processing region below the substrate support assembly. A first gas conduit is configured to flow a cleaning agent from the remote plasma source through the gas distribution assembly in each processing region while a second gas conduit is configured to divert a portion of the cleaning agent from the first gas conduit to the gas passage of each processing region.
Public/Granted literature
- US10094486B2 Method and system for supplying a cleaning gas into a process chamber Public/Granted day:2018-10-09
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