Patents Examined by Margaret D Klunk
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Patent number: 10508341Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide methods for processing a substrate within a processing chamber. In one embodiment, the method comprises providing a precursor gas mixture into the processing chamber, the precursor gas mixture comprising a deposition precursor gas and an etch precursor gas, subjecting the precursor gas mixture to a thermal energy from a heat source to deposit a material layer on a surface of the substrate, wherein the thermal energy is below the minimum required for pyrolysis of the etch precursor gas, and after the material layer is formed on the surface of the substrate, subjecting the precursor gas mixture to a photon energy from a radiation source, the photon energy having a wavelength and a power level selected to promote photolytic dissociation of the etch precursor gas over the deposition precursor gas and etch a portion of the material layer from the surface of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2015Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.Inventor: Stephen Moffatt
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Patent number: 10497581Abstract: In a substrate processing method, a substrate holding unit holds a substrate in a horizontal position, a processing liquid supplying unit supplies first and second processing liquids to the surface of the substrate held by the substrate holding unit, a substrate rotating unit rotates the substrate held by the substrate holding unit, a heater opposes the substrate held by the substrate holding unit, and a moving unit moves at least one of the substrate holding unit and the heater supporting member such that the heater and the substrate are held in two different relative positions.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2017Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akio Hashizume, Takashi Ota
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Patent number: 10490427Abstract: A substrate treating apparatus is provided which includes a treating container of which a top end is opened, a substrate support unit placed in a treating container to support a substrate, a treatment solution supply unit supplying a treatment solution to a substrate put on the support unit, and a heating unit placed in the substrate support unit to heat the substrate. The heating unit includes a heating element and a reflection element reflecting a heat from the heating element upward.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2015Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: SEMES CO., LTD.Inventors: Jung Bong Choi, Seong Soo Kim, Chan-Young Heo, Oh Jin Kwon
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Patent number: 10458010Abstract: Disclosed is a substrate liquid processing apparatus including: a processing bath in which a mixture of sulfuric acid and hydrogen peroxide is stored, and a substrate is immersed in the stored mixture such that a processing is performed on the substrate; an outer bath configured to receive the mixture flowing out from the processing bath; a circulation line configured to return the mixture in the outer bath to the processing bath; a sulfuric acid supply unit configured to supply sulfuric acid to the mixture; a first hydrogen peroxide supply unit configured to supply hydrogen peroxide to the mixture in the outer bath; and a second hydrogen peroxide supply unit configured to supply hydrogen peroxide to the mixture flowing through a downstream portion of the circulation line.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2016Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Hironobu Hyakutake, Takafumi Tsuchiya, Koichiro Kanzaki
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Patent number: 10343253Abstract: Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and systems are provided for detecting an endpoint of a chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) process on a semiconductor substrate. The method comprises generating a reference signal, generating a first signal with which to control a CMP system, generating a second signal using a combination of the first signal and the reference signal, commanding the CMP system with the second signal, generating a response signal that indicates an operational characteristic of the CMP system that is responsive to the second signal and a friction property of the semiconductor substrate, and filtering the response signal using the reference signal to determine the endpoint of the CMP process.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2014Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES, INC.Inventors: Abner Bello, Michael Wedlake
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Patent number: 10325800Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for methods and apparatuses for increasing the breakdown voltage while substantially reducing the voltage leakage of an electrostatic chuck at temperatures exceeding about 300 degrees Celsius in a processing chamber.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2014Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.Inventors: Prashant Kulshreshtha, Kwangduk Douglas Lee, Bok Hoen Kim, Zheng John Ye, Swayambhu Prasad Behera, Ganesh Balasubramanian, Juan Carlos Rocha-Alvarez, Jian J. Chen
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Patent number: 10315233Abstract: A flexible substrate treatment device comprising at least one tank that accommodates treatment liquid, winding rollers including a main roller and a driven roller located above the treatment liquid, a positioning roller located in the treating liquid in each tank, a detecting unit configured to detect radius or diameter of at least one of the winding rollers, and a movable discharge member fixed to a side wall of each tank, including a movable discharge port configured to discharge the treatment liquid and a discharge port position controlling mechanism, wherein the movable discharge port can be moved in a direction X perpendicular to a bottom wall of the tank.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2012Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Weifeng Zhou
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Patent number: 10279311Abstract: A chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) chamber is disclosed. The CMP chamber includes a chamber body, a door mounted on the chamber body and a chamber substructure being one selected from a group consisting of a moisture separator separating a moisture generated in the CMP chamber, a supplementary exhaust port, a transparent window mounted on the door, a sampling port mounted on the door, a sealing material including a metal frame, an o-ring for sealing the door and a combination thereof.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2012Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Chih-I Peng, Hsiang-Pi Chang, Cary Chia-Chiung Lo, Teng-Chun Tsai, Kuo-Yin Lin, Chih-Yuan Yang
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Patent number: 10264662Abstract: Provided is a capacitively coupled plasma processing apparatus which improves a controllability of the RF bias function and reliably prevents unwanted resonance from being generated on a RF transmission line between a counter electrode and ground potential to enhance reliability of the plasma process. In the capacitive coupled type plasma processing apparatus, three kinds of RF powers from a first, second and third RF power supplies (35, 36, 38) are superimposed and applied to susceptor (lower electrode) (16). In such a three-frequency superimposing and applying application scheme, the frequency-impedance characteristic around upper electrode (48) is considered to prevent a serial resonance from occurring on an RF transmission line around upper electrode (48) in consideration of all the low order frequencies of the IMD relevant to and affecting the plasma process.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2013Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Manabu Iwata, Naoyuki Umehara, Hiroki Endo
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Patent number: 10187965Abstract: A plasma confinement apparatus, and method for confining a plasma are described and which includes, in one form of the invention, a plurality of electrically insulated components which are disposed in predetermined spaced relation, one relative to the others, and surrounding a processing region of a plasma processing apparatus, and wherein a plurality of passageways are defined between the respective insulated components; and at least one electrically conductive and grounded component forms an electrical field shielding for the processing region.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2013Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: ADVANCED MICRO-FABRICATION EQUIPMENT, INC. CHINAInventors: Tuqiang Ni, Jinyuan Chen, Qing Qian, Yuehong Fu, Zhaoyang Xu, Xusheng Zhou, Ye Wang
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Patent number: 10153182Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus that performs processing by immersing a substrate into a processing liquid obtained by mixing phosphoric acid with a diluent includes a concentration sensing means for sensing the concentration of the processing liquid by measuring the absorbance characteristics of the processing liquid. The concentration sensing means includes a light-transmitting section that introduces the processing liquid into the inside to let the processing liquid pass therethrough, a light-emitting section that radiates light having a predetermined wavelength to the light-transmitting section, a light-receiving section that receives the light therefrom via the light-transmitting section, a first lens that condenses the light emitted from the light-emitting section to the light-transmitting section, a second lens that condenses the light that has passed through the light-transmitting section to the light-receiving section, and a cooling mechanism that cools at least one of these.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2012Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignees: Kurashiki Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Noboru Higashi, Satoru Hiraki, Hiromi Kiyose, Hideaki Sato, Hiroshi Komiya
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Patent number: 10077207Abstract: This disclosure is directed to an improved process for making glass articles having optical coating and easy-to clean coating thereon, an apparatus for the process and a product made using the process. In particular, the disclosure is directed to a process in which the application of the optical coating and the easy-to-clean coating can be sequentially applied using a single apparatus. Using the combination of the coating apparatus and the substrate carrier described herein results in a glass article having both optical and easy-to-clean coating that have improved scratch resistance durability and optical performance, and in addition the resulting articles are “shadow free.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2013Date of Patent: September 18, 2018Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Christopher Morton Lee, Xiao-feng Lu, Michael Xu Ouyang, Junhong Zhang
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Patent number: 9960071Abstract: A polishing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a first polishing part, a second polishing part, and an annular part. The second polishing part includes a mounting surface for a semiconductor substrate, and rubs the semiconductor substrate mounted on the mounting surface while pressing the semiconductor substrate against the first polishing part. The annular part includes a support part provided in the second polishing part, and a plurality of convex portions that project from the support part toward the first polishing part, are arranged in a circumferential direction around the mounting surface while being supported by the support part, and are movable in a radial direction of the semiconductor substrate.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2016Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATIONInventors: Takayuki Nakayama, Masayoshi Adachi
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Patent number: 9953852Abstract: A liquid processing apparatus of the present disclosure performs a liquid processing by supplying a processing liquid to a substrate that is rotating. A substrate holding unit configured to be rotatable around a vertical axis is provided with a holding surface to attract and hold a bottom surface of the substrate horizontally. A guide unit is formed integrally with the substrate holding unit, disposed around the substrate held in the substrate holding unit, and provided at a position equal to or lower than a height of a top surface of a periphery of the substrate. The guide unit includes a guide surface configured to guide the processing liquid. A rotary cup rotates integrally with the substrate holding unit, and guides the processing liquid towards the cup between the rotary cup and the guide unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2014Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Jiro Higashijima, Yuichi Douki, Masami Akimoto, Shigehisa Inoue
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Patent number: 9887096Abstract: A method of etching exposed silicon oxide on patterned heterogeneous structures is described and includes a gas phase etch created from a remote plasma etch. The remote plasma excites a fluorine-containing precursor. Plasma effluents from the remote plasma are flowed into a substrate processing region where the plasma effluents combine with water vapor. Reactants thereby produced etch the patterned heterogeneous structures to remove two separate regions of differing silicon oxide at different etch rates. The methods may be used to remove low density silicon oxide while removing less high density silicon oxide.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2015Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Seung H. Park, Yunyu Wang, Jingchun Zhang, Anchuan Wang, Nitin K. Ingle
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Patent number: 9850583Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for forming lubricant recesses having minute configurations by applying a photolithograph method in a curved inner surface, such as a cylinder bore surface of a cylinder block, the inside of a cylinder liner, the inside of a compressor cylinder, a big end of a connecting rod, a big end bearing, a shaft insertion hole of a rocker arm, or the like in an internal combustion engine.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2014Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: Hwabaek Engineering Co., LTD.Inventors: Kang Lee, Young Hwan Uhm, Jung Min Han
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Patent number: 9842750Abstract: Disclosed is a plasma processing device that provides an object to be treated with plasma treatment. A wafer as an object to be treated, which is attached on the upper surface of adhesive sheet held by a holder frame, is mounted on a stage. In a vacuum chamber that covers the stage therein, plasma is generated, by which the wafer mounted on the stage undergoes plasma treatment. The plasma processing device contains a cover member made of dielectric material. During the plasma treatment on the wafer, the holder frame is covered with a cover member placed at a predetermined position above the stage, at the same time, the wafer is exposed from an opening formed in the center of the cover member.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2016Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Tetsuhiro Iwai
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Patent number: 9783889Abstract: In some embodiments, an apparatus for variable substrate temperature control may include a heater moveable along a central axis of a substrate support; a seal ring disposed about the heater, the seal ring configured to interface with a shadow ring disposed above the heater to form a seal; a plurality of spacer pins configured to support a substrate and disposed within a plurality of through holes formed in the heater, the plurality of spacer pins moveable parallel to the central axis, wherein the plurality of spacer pins control a first distance between the substrate and the heater and a second distance between the substrate and the shadow ring; and a resilient element disposed beneath the seal ring to bias the seal ring toward a backside surface of the heater.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2012Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.Inventors: Gwo-Chuan Tzu, Xiaoxiong Yuan, Amit Khandelwal, Avgerinos V. Gelatos, Olkan Cuvalci, Kai Wu, Michael P. Karazim
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Patent number: 9691629Abstract: Compositions useful for the selective removal of silicon nitride materials relative to polysilicon, silicon oxide materials and/or silicide materials from a microelectronic device having same thereon. The removal compositions include fluorosilicic acid, silicic acid, and at least one organic solvent. Typical process temperatures are less than about 100° C. and typical selectivity for nitride versus oxide etch is about 200:1 to about 2000:1. Under typical process conditions, nickel-based silicides as well as titanium and tantalum nitrides are largely unaffected, and polysilicon etch rates are less than about 1 ? min?1.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2015Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: Entegris, Inc.Inventors: Emanuel I. Cooper, Eileen Sparks, William R. Bowers, Mark A. Biscotto, Kevin P. Yanders, Michael B. Korzenski
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Patent number: 9564287Abstract: A substrate processing method uses a substrate processing apparatus including a chamber for accommodating a substrate, a lower electrode to mount the substrate, a first RF power applying unit for applying an RF power for plasma generation into the chamber, and a second RF power applying unit for applying an RF power for bias to the lower electrode. The RF power for plasma generation is controlled to be intermittently changed by changing an output of the first RF power applying unit at a predetermined timing. If no plasma state or an afterglow state exists in the chamber by a control of the first RF power applying unit, an output of the second RF power applying unit is controlled to be in an OFF state or decreased below an output of the second RF power applying unit when the output of the first RF power applying unit is a set output.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2013Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Takeshi Ohse, Shinji Himori, Jun Abe, Norikazu Yamada