Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Inert-dominant pulsing in plasma processing systems
- Patent Title (中): 等离子体处理系统中的惰性主导脉冲
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Application No.: US14327270Application Date: 2014-07-09
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Publication No.: US09214320B2Publication Date: 2015-12-15
- Inventor: Keren Jacobs Kanarik
- Applicant: Lam Research Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Fremont
- Assignee: Lam Research Corporation
- Current Assignee: Lam Research Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Fremont
- Agency: Beyer Law Group LLP
- Main IPC: C03C15/00
- IPC: C03C15/00 ; H01J37/32 ; H05H1/46

Abstract:
A method for processing substrate in a processing chamber, which has at least one plasma generating source and a gas source for providing process gas into the chamber, is provided. The method includes exciting the plasma generating source with an RF signal having RF frequency. The method further includes pulsing the gas source, using at least a first gas pulsing frequency, such that a first process gas is flowed into the chamber during a first portion of a gas pulsing period and a second process gas is flowed into the chamber during a second portion of the gas pulsing period, which is associated with the first gas pulsing frequency. The second process gas has a lower reactant-gas-to-inert-gas ratio relative to a reactant-gas-to-inert-gas ratio of the first process gas. The second process gas is formed by removing at least a portion of a reactant gas flow from the first process gas.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140319098A1 INERT-DOMINANT PULSING IN PLASMA PROCESSING SYSTEMS Public/Granted day:2014-10-30
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