Patents Assigned to Applied Material
  • Publication number: 20220130663
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to methods of selectively depositing organic and hybrid organic/inorganic layers. More particularly, embodiments of the disclosure are directed to methods of modifying hydroxyl terminated surfaces for selective deposition of molecular layer organic and hybrid organic/inorganic films. Additional embodiments of the disclosure relate to cyclic compounds for use in molecular layer deposition processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Tapash Chakraborty, Robert Jan Visser, Prerna Sonthalia Goradia
  • Publication number: 20220130658
    Abstract: Methods for depositing a silicon-containing film on a substrate are described. The method comprises heating a processing chamber to a temperature greater than or equal to 200° C.; maintaining the processing chamber at a pressure of less than or equal to 300 Torr; coflowing a silicon precursor and nitrous oxide (N2O) into the processing chamber, and depositing a conformal silicon-containing film on the substrate. The silicon-containing film has dielectric constant (k-value) in a range of from about 3.8 to about 4.0, has a breakdown voltage of greater than 8 MV/cm at a leakage current of 1 mA/cm2 and has a leakage current of less than 1 nA/cm2 at 2 MV/cm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Zeqing Shen, Bo Qi, Abhijit Basu Mallick
  • Publication number: 20220130664
    Abstract: Methods of selectively depositing films on substrates are described. A passivation film is deposited on a metal surface before deposition of a dielectric material. Also described is exposing a substrate surface comprising a metal surface and a dielectric surface to a docking precursor to form a passivation film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicants: Applied Materials, Inc., National University of Singapore
    Inventors: Yong Wang, Andrea Leoncini, Doreen Wei Ying Yong, Bhaskar Jyoti Bhuyan, John Sudijono
  • Publication number: 20220130713
    Abstract: Exemplary processing systems may include a chamber body. The systems may include a pedestal configured to support a semiconductor substrate. The systems may include a faceplate. The chamber body, the pedestal, and the faceplate may define a processing region. The faceplate may be coupled with an RF power source. The systems may include a remote plasma unit. The remote plasma unit may be coupled at electrical ground. The systems may include a discharge tube extending from the remote plasma unit towards the faceplate. The discharge tube may define a central aperture. The discharge tube may be electrically coupled with each of the faceplate and the remote plasma unit. The discharge tube may include ferrite extending about the central aperture of the discharge tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Khokan Chandra Paul, Tsutomu Tanaka, Adam J. Fischbach, Abhijit A. Kangude, Juan Carlos Rocha-Alvarez
  • Publication number: 20220127723
    Abstract: Exemplary substrate support assemblies may include an electrostatic chuck body defining a support surface that defines a substrate seat. The substrate support surface may include a dielectric coating. The substrate support assemblies may include a support stem coupled with the electrostatic chuck body. The substrate support assemblies may include a cooling hub positioned below a base of the support stem and coupled with a cooling fluid source. The electrostatic chuck body may define at least one cooling channel that is in communication with a cooling fluid source. The substrate support assemblies may include a heater embedded within the electrostatic chuck body. The substrate support assemblies may include an AC power rod extending through the support stem and electrically coupled with the heater. The substrate support assemblies may include a plurality of voids formed within the electrostatic chuck body between the at least one cooling channel and the heater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Jian Li, Juan Carlos Rocha-Alvarez, Mayur Govind Kulkarni, Paul L. Brillhart, Vidyadharan Srinivasamurthy, Katherine Woo, Wenhao Zhang
  • Publication number: 20220127747
    Abstract: Electroplating systems may include an electroplating chamber. The systems may also include a replenish assembly fluidly coupled with the electroplating chamber. The replenish assembly may include a first compartment housing anode material. The first compartment may include a first compartment section in which the anode material is housed and a second compartment section separated from the first compartment section by a divider. The replenish assembly may include a second compartment fluidly coupled with the electroplating chamber and electrically coupled with the first compartment. The replenish assembly may also include a third compartment electrically coupled with the second compartment, the third compartment including an inert cathode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Nolan L. Zimmerman, Charles Sharbono, Gregory J. Wilson, Paul R. McHugh, Paul Van Valkenburg, Deepak Saagar Kalaikadal, Kyle M. Hanson
  • Publication number: 20220130665
    Abstract: Exemplary processing methods may include forming a plasma of a deposition precursor in a processing region of a semiconductor processing chamber. The methods may include adjusting a variable capacitor within 20% of a resonance peak. The variable capacitor may be coupled with an electrode incorporated within a substrate support on which a substrate is seated. The methods may include depositing a material on the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Wenyoung Tsiang, Abdul Aziz Khaja, Li-Qun Xia, Kevin Hsiao, Liangfa Hu, Yayun Cheng
  • Publication number: 20220130650
    Abstract: Exemplary semiconductor processing systems may include a chamber body including sidewalls and a base. The system may include a substrate support extending through the base of the chamber body. The chamber body may define an access circumferentially extending about the substrate support at the base of the chamber body. The system may include one or more isolators disposed within the chamber body. The one or more isolators may define an exhaust path between the one or more isolators and the chamber body. The exhaust path may extend to the base of the chamber body. The systems may include a fluid source fluidly coupled with the chamber body at the access extending about the substrate support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Sarah Michelle Bobek, Venkata Sharat Chandra Parimi, Sungwon Ha, Kwangduk Douglas Lee
  • Publication number: 20220130659
    Abstract: Methods of enhancing selective deposition are described. In some embodiments, a passivation layer is deposited on a metal surface before deposition of a dielectric material. A block I molecule is deposited on a metal surface, and a block II molecule is reacted with the block I molecule to form a passivation layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicants: Applied Materials, Inc., National University of Singapore
    Inventors: Yong Wang, Andrea Leoncini, Doreen Wei Ying Yong, John Sudijono
  • Publication number: 20220130692
    Abstract: Exemplary semiconductor chamber component cleaning systems may include a receptacle. The receptacle may include a bottom lid that may be an annulus. The annulus may be characterized by an inner annular wall and an outer annular wall. A plurality of recessed annular ledges may be defined between the inner annular wall and the outer annular wall. Each recessed annular ledge of the plurality of recessed annular ledges may be formed at a different radial position along the bottom lid. The cleaning systems may include a top lid removably coupled with the bottom lid about an exterior region of the top lid. The cleaning systems may include a tank defining a volume to receive the receptacle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Katty Guyomard, Chidambara A. Ramalingam, Shawyon Jafari, Palash Joshi, Moin Ahmed Khan, Kirubanandan Naina Shanmugam, Subhaschandra Shreepad Salkod, Avishek Ghosh, David W. Groechel, Li Wu, Dorothea Buechel-Rimmel
  • Publication number: 20220130688
    Abstract: Exemplary semiconductor processing chambers may include a chamber body. The chambers may include a showerhead. The chambers may include a substrate support. The substrate support may include a platen characterized by a first surface facing the showerhead. The substrate support may include a shaft coupled with the platen along a second surface of the platen opposite the first surface of the platen. The shaft may extend at least partially through the chamber body. A coating may extend conformally about the first surface of the platen, the second surface of the platen, and about the shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventor: Laksheswar Kalita
  • Publication number: 20220127717
    Abstract: Selective deposition methods are described. A passivation film is deposited on a metal surface before deposition of a dielectric material. Methods include exposing a substrate surface including a metal surface and a dielectric surface to a heterocyclic reactant comprising a head group and a tailgroup in a processing chamber and selectively depositing the heterocyclic reactant on the metal surface to form a passivation layer, wherein the heterocyclic headgroup selectively reacts and binds to the metal surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Yong Wang, Doreen Wei Ying Yong, Bhaskar Jyoti Bhuyan, John Sudijono
  • Publication number: 20220130676
    Abstract: A method of forming an interconnect structure for semiconductor devices is described. The method comprises depositing an etch stop layer on a substrate by physical vapor deposition followed by in situ deposition of a metal layer on the etch stop layer. The in situ deposition comprises flowing a plasma processing gas into the chamber and exciting the plasma processing gas into a plasma to deposit the metal layer on the etch stop layer on the substrate. The substrate is continuously under vacuum and is not exposed to ambient air during the deposition processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: He Ren, Hao Jiang, Mehul Naik, Wenting Hou, Jianxin Lei, Chen Gong, Yong Cao
  • Publication number: 20220130660
    Abstract: Selective deposition methods are described. An exemplary method comprises exposing the substrate comprising a first surface and a second surface to an anchor reactant and selectively depositing the anchor reactant on the first surface as a seed layer, wherein the anchor reactant comprises an ethynyl derivative with a headgroup that selectively targets the first surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicants: Applied Materials, Inc., National University of Singapore
    Inventors: Andrea Leoncini, Yong Wang, Doreen Wei Ying Yong
  • Publication number: 20220127718
    Abstract: Methods for filling a substrate feature with a carbon gap fill, while leaving a void, are described. Methods comprise flowing a process gas into a high density plasma chemical vapor deposition (HDP-CVD) chamber, the chamber housing a substrate having at least one feature, the process gas comprising a hydrocarbon reactant, generating a plasma, and depositing a carbon film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Zeqing Shen, Bo Qi, Abhijit Basu Mallick
  • Publication number: 20220130661
    Abstract: Exemplary semiconductor processing methods may include flowing deposition gases that may include a nitrogen-containing precursor, a silicon-containing precursor, and a carrier gas, into a substrate processing region of a substrate processing chamber. The flow rate ratio of the nitrogen-containing precursor to the silicon-containing precursor may be greater than or about 1:1. The methods may further include generating a deposition plasma from the deposition gases to form a silicon-and-nitrogen containing layer on a substrate in the substrate processing chamber. The silicon-and-nitrogen-containing layer may be treated with a treatment plasma, where the treatment plasma is formed from the carrier gas without the silicon-containing precursor. The flow rate of the carrier gas in the treatment plasma may be greater than a flow rate of the carrier gas in the deposition plasma.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Wenyoung Tsiang, Yichuen Lin, Kevin Hsiao, Hang Yu, Deenesh Padhi, Yijun Liu, Li-Qun Xia
  • Publication number: 20220130687
    Abstract: Exemplary semiconductor processing chambers may include a gasbox including a first plate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The first plate of the gasbox may define a central aperture that extends from the first surface to the second surface. The first plate may define an annular recess in the second surface. The first plate may define a plurality of apertures extending from the first surface to the annular recess in the second surface. The gasbox may include a second plate characterized by an annular shape. The second plate may be coupled with the first plate at the annular recess to define a first plenum within the first plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Rahul Rajeev, Yunzhe Yang, Abhijit A. Kangude, Kedar Joshi
  • Publication number: 20220130704
    Abstract: Exemplary support assemblies may include an electrostatic chuck body defining a support surface that defines a substrate seat. The assemblies may include a support stem coupled with the chuck body. The assemblies may include a heater embedded within the chuck body. The assemblies may include a first bipolar electrode embedded within the electrostatic chuck body between the heater and support surface. The assemblies may include a second bipolar electrode embedded within the chuck body between the heater and support surface. Peripheral edges of one or both of the first and second bipolar electrodes may extend beyond an outer periphery of the seat. The assemblies may include an RF power supply coupled with the first and second bipolar electrodes. The assemblies may include a first floating DC power supply coupled with the first bipolar electrode. The assemblies may include a second floating DC power supply coupled with the second bipolar electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Jian Li, Dmitry A. Dzilno, Juan Carlos Rocha-Alvarez, Zheng J. Ye, Paul L. Brillhart
  • Patent number: 11315806
    Abstract: Wafer cassettes and methods of use that provide heating a cooling to a plurality of wafers to decrease time between wafer switching in a processing chamber. Wafers are supported on a wafer lift which can move all wafers together or on independent lift pins which can move individual wafers for heating and cooling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason M. Schaller, Robert Brent Vopat, Paul E. Pergande, Benjamin B. Riordon, David Blahnik, William T. Weaver
  • Patent number: 11315790
    Abstract: A method may include providing a substrate in a plasma chamber, the substrate comprising a monocrystalline semiconductor, having an upper surface. The method may include initiating a plasma in the plasma chamber, the plasma comprising an amorphizing ion species, and applying a pulse routine to the substrate, the pulse routine comprising a plurality of extraction voltage pulses, wherein a plurality of ion pulses are directed to the substrate, and wherein an ion dose per pulse is greater than a threshold for low dose amorphization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Supakit Charnvanichborikarn, Christopher R. Hatem