Abstract: Each of a plurality of individually heated circularly located susceptors supports and heats one of a plurality of wafers within a processing chamber. An overhead gas dispersion head, vertically aligned with each susceptor, directs, in combination with downstream flow control structure, flow of a reactant gas radially uniformly across the supported wafer. A spider sequentially relocates each of the wafers, as a group, to an adjacent susceptor. Wafer handling apparatus replaces each processed wafer to provide a high production rate throughput. A source of RF energy radiating essentially primarily between each gas dispersion head and its associated susceptor provides a plasma enhanced environment and the low level intensity elsewhere within the reactor reduces residual deposits.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 25, 1990
Date of Patent:
February 25, 1992
Assignee:
Advanced Semiconductor Materials, Inc.
Inventors:
H. Peter W. Hey, William A. Mazak, Ravinder K. Aggarwal, John H. Curtin, Paul B. Brown, Joe R. Smith