Patents by Inventor Jennifer Y. Sun

Jennifer Y. Sun has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20210118703
    Abstract: A component for a processing chamber includes a ceramic body having at least one surface with a first average surface roughness. The component further includes a conformal protective layer on at least one surface of the ceramic body, wherein the conformal protective layer is a plasma resistant rare earth oxide film having a substantially uniform thickness of less than 300 ?m over the at least one surface and having a second average surface roughness that is less than the first average surface roughness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Jennifer Y. Sun, Biraja P. Kanungo, Vahid Firouzdor, Ying Zhang
  • Patent number: 10934216
    Abstract: An article comprises a plasma resistant ceramic material comprising Y2O3 at a concentration of approximately 30 molar % to approximately 60 molar %, Er2O3 at a concentration of above 30 molar % to approximately 60 molar %, and at least one of ZrO2, Gd2O3 or SiO2 at a concentration of over 0 molar % to approximately 30 molar %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer Y. Sun, Biraja P. Kanungo
  • Patent number: 10930526
    Abstract: A component for a semiconductor processing chamber includes a ceramic body having at least one surface with a first average surface roughness of approximately 8-16 micro-inches. The component further includes a conformal protective layer on at least one surface of the ceramic body, wherein the conformal protective layer is a plasma resistant rare earth oxide film having a substantially uniform thickness of less than 300 ?m over the at least one surface and having a second average surface roughness of below 10 micro-inches, wherein the second average surface roughness is less than the first average surface roughness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Jennifer Y. Sun, Biraja P. Kanungo, Vahid Firouzdor, Ying Zhang
  • Patent number: 10899892
    Abstract: A method for preparing a bonding component comprises mixing a first solution comprising an organofluorine monomer unit with a second solution comprising an organosilicon monomer unit to form, in-situ, a copolymer solution comprising a copolymer of an organofluorine polymer and an organosilicon polymer based on the organofluorine monomer unit and the organosilicon monomer unit. The method further comprises depositing the copolymer solution onto a body to form a film of the copolymer, and curing the film of the copolymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer Y. Sun, Sumanth Banda
  • Publication number: 20210010126
    Abstract: An article such as a susceptor includes a body of a thermally conductive material coated by a first protective layer and a second protective layer over a surface of the body. The first protective layer is a thermally conductive ceramic. The second protective layer covers the first protective layer and is a plasma resistant ceramic thin film that is resistant to cracking at temperatures of 650 degrees Celsius.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Vahid Firouzdor, Biraja P. Kanungo, Jennifer Y. Sun, Martin J. Salinas, Jared Ahmad Lee
  • Publication number: 20200395226
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a ceramic article or coating useful in semiconductor processing, which is resistant to erosion by halogen-containing plasmas. The ceramic article or coating is formed from a combination of yttrium oxide and zirconium oxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: Jennifer Y. Sun, Ren-Guan Duan, Jie Yuan, Li Xu, Kenneth S. Collins
  • Patent number: 10858741
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an article comprising one or more channels and a multi-layer protective coating on the one or more channels. The multi-layer protective coating includes an anodization layer comprising a plurality of cracks and a plurality of pores, a sealing layer on the anodization layer, and a top layer on the sealing layer. The sealing layer comprises a metal oxide, the seals the plurality of cracks and the plurality of pores, and has a porosity of approximately 0%. The top layer comprises a rare earth oxide, a rare earth fluoride, or a rare earth oxyfluoride, has a different material composition than the sealing layer, and has a porosity of approximately 0%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiao-Ming He, Jennifer Y. Sun
  • Patent number: 10847386
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a ceramic article or coating useful in semiconductor processing, which is resistant to erosion by halogen-containing plasmas. The ceramic article or coating is formed from a combination of yttrium oxide and zirconium oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer Y. Sun, Ren-Guan Duan, Jie Yuan, Li Xu, Kenneth S. Collins
  • Patent number: 10840112
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a ceramic article or coating useful in semiconductor processing, which is resistant to erosion by halogen-containing plasmas. The ceramic article or coating is formed from a combination of yttrium oxide and zirconium oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer Y. Sun, Ren-Guan Duan, Jie Yuan, Li Xu, Kenneth S. Collins
  • Patent number: 10840113
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a ceramic article or coating useful in semiconductor processing, which is resistant to erosion by halogen-containing plasmas. The ceramic article or coating is formed from a combination of yttrium oxide and zirconium oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer Y. Sun, Ren-Guan Duan, Jie Yuan, Li Xu, Kenneth S. Collins
  • Patent number: 10815562
    Abstract: An article such as a susceptor includes a body of a thermally conductive material coated by a first protective layer and a second protective layer over a surface of the body. The first protective layer is a thermally conductive ceramic. The second protective layer covers the first protective layer and is a plasma resistant ceramic thin film that is resistant to cracking at temperatures of 650 degrees Celsius.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Vahid Firouzdor, Biraja P. Kanungo, Jennifer Y. Sun, Martin J. Salinas, Jared Ahmad Lee
  • Patent number: 10796888
    Abstract: A ring shaped body includes a top flat region, a ring inner side and a ring outer side. The ring inner side comprises an approximately vertical wall. A conformal protective layer is disposed on at least the top flat region, the ring inner side and the ring outer side of the ring shaped body. The protective layer has a first thickness of less than 300 ?m on the top flat region and a second thickness on the vertical wall of the ring inner side, where the second thickness is 45-70% of the first thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer Y. Sun, Biraja P. Kanungo, Vahid Firouzdor, Ying Zhang
  • Publication number: 20200291528
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an article comprising one or more channels and a multi-layer protective coating on the one or more channels. The multi-layer protective coating includes an anodization layer comprising a plurality of cracks and a plurality of pores, a sealing layer on the anodization layer, and a top layer on the sealing layer. The sealing layer comprises a metal oxide, the seals the plurality of cracks and the plurality of pores, and has a porosity of approximately 0%. The top layer comprises a rare earth oxide, a rare earth fluoride, or a rare earth oxyfluoride, has a different material composition than the sealing layer, and has a porosity of approximately 0%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Xiao-Ming He, Jennifer Y. Sun
  • Patent number: 10774436
    Abstract: A chamber component for a processing chamber comprises an article having impurities, an aluminum coating on a surface of the article, wherein the aluminum coating is substantially free from impurities, and an anodization layer over the aluminum coating. The anodization layer comprises aluminum oxide. The anodization layer further comprises a dense barrier layer portion and a porous columnar layer portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Jennifer Y. Sun, Sumanth Banda
  • Patent number: 10773995
    Abstract: An article comprises a body having a coating. The coating comprising a eutectic system having a super-lattice of a first fluoride and a second fluoride. The coating includes a glaze on a surface of the coating, the glaze comprising the eutectic system having the super-lattice of the first fluoride and the second fluoride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Chengtsin Lee, Jennifer Y. Sun
  • Patent number: 10774006
    Abstract: Methods comprise loading an article comprising a ceramic coating into an induction heating system or a microwave heating system and heat treating the ceramic coating using the microwave heating system or the induction heating system within a temperature range for a duration of about 1-15 minutes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Kaushal Gangakhedkar, Jennifer Y. Sun
  • Publication number: 20200283897
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide a method of forming amorphous a fluorinated metal film. The method includes positioning an object in an atomic layer deposition (ALD) chamber having a processing region, depositing a metal-oxide containing layer on an object using an atomic layer deposition (ALD) process, depositing a metal-fluorine layer on the metal-oxide containing layer using an activated fluorination process, and repeating the depositing the metal-oxide containing layer and the depositing the metal-oxide containing layer until a fluorinated metal film with a predetermined film thickness is formed. The activated fluorination process includes introducing a first flow of a fluorine precursor (FP) to the processing region. The FP includes at least one organofluorine reagent or at least one fluorinated gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Nitin DEEPAK, Suresh Chand SETH, Prerna Sonthalia GORADIA, Geetika BAJAJ, Darshan THAKARE, Jennifer Y. SUN, Gayatri NATU
  • Patent number: 10766824
    Abstract: Methods comprise performing two or more thermal cycles on an article comprising a body and a ceramic coating. Each thermal cycle of the two or more thermal cycles comprise heating the ceramic article to a target temperature at a first ramping rate. Each thermal cycle further comprises maintaining the article at the target temperature for a first duration of time and then cooling the article to a second target temperature at a second ramping rate. The method further comprises submerging the article in a bath for a second duration of time to remove the particles from the ceramic coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Kaushal Gangakhedkar, Jennifer Y. Sun, Xiao-Ming He
  • Patent number: 10755900
    Abstract: A method of applying a multi-layer plasma resistant coating on an article comprises performing plating or ALD to form a conformal first plasma resistant layer on an article, wherein the conformal first plasma resistant layer is formed on a surface of the article and on walls of high aspect ratio features in the article. The conformal first plasma resistant coating has a porosity of approximately 0% and a thickness of approximately 200 nm to approximately 1 micron. One of electron beam ion assisted deposition (EB-IAD), plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD), aerosol deposition or plasma spraying is then performed to form a second plasma resistant layer that covers the conformal first plasma resistant layer at a region of the surface but not at the walls of the high aspect ratio features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Toan Tran, Laksheswar Kalita, Tae Won Kim, Dmitry Lubomirsky, Xiaowei Wu, Xiao-Ming He, Cheng-Hsuan Chou, Jennifer Y. Sun
  • Publication number: 20200238303
    Abstract: Embodiments of showerheads having a detachable gas distribution plate are provided herein. In some embodiments, a showerhead for use in a substrate processing chamber includes a body having a first side and an opposing second side; a gas distribution plate disposed proximate the second side of the body; and a clamp disposed about a peripheral edge of the gas distribution plate to removably couple the gas distribution plate to the body, wherein the body is electrically coupled to the gas distribution plate through the clamp.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Dmitry LUBOMIRSKY, Vladimir KNYAZIK, Hamid NOORBAKHSH, Jason DELLA ROSA, Zheng John YE, Jennifer Y. SUN, Sumanth BANDA