Patents by Inventor Soonam Park
Soonam Park 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).
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Patent number: 11361939Abstract: Exemplary semiconductor processing systems may include a processing chamber, and may include a remote plasma unit coupled with the processing chamber. Exemplary systems may also include an adapter coupled with the remote plasma unit. The adapter may include a first end and a second end opposite the first end. The adapter may define a central channel through the adapter. The adapter may define an exit from a second channel at the second end, and the adapter may define an exit from a third channel at the second end. The central channel, the second channel, and the third channel may each be fluidly isolated from one another within the adapter.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2019Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Mehmet Tugrul Samir, Dongqing Yang, Dmitry Lubomirsky, Peter Hillman, Soonam Park, Martin Yue Choy, Lala Zhu
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Patent number: 11355317Abstract: Plasma is generated in a semiconductor process chamber by a plurality of microwave inputs with slow or fast rotation. Radial uniformity of the plasma is controlled by regulating the power ratio of a center-high mode and an edge-high mode of the plurality of microwave inputs into a microwave cavity. The radial uniformity of the generated plasma in a plasma chamber is attained by adjusting the power ratio for the two modes without inputting time-splitting parameters for each mode.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2018Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.Inventors: Satoru Kobayashi, Lance Scudder, David Britz, Soonam Park, Dmitry Lubomirsky, Hideo Sugai
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Publication number: 20220148894Abstract: Exemplary support assemblies may include a top puck and a backing plate coupled with the top puck. The support assemblies may include a cooling plate coupled with the backing plate. The support assemblies may include a heater coupled between the cooling plate and the backing plate. The support assemblies may also include a back plate coupled with the backing plate about an exterior of the backing plate. The back plate may at least partially define a volume, and the heater and the cooling plate may be housed within the volume.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2022Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Mehmet Tugrul Samir, Dongqing Yang, Dmitry Lubomirsky, Peter Hillman, Soonam Park, Martin Yue Choy, Lala Zhu
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Publication number: 20220093364Abstract: A plasma reactor has a cylindrical microwave cavity overlying a workpiece processing chamber, a microwave source having a pair of microwave source outputs, and a pair of respective waveguides. The cavity has first and second input ports in a sidewall and space apart by an azimuthal angle. Each of the waveguides has a microwave input end coupled to a microwave source output and a microwave output end coupled to a respective one of the first and second input ports, a coupling aperture plate at the output end with a rectangular coupling aperture in the coupling aperture plate, and an iris plate between the coupling aperture plate and the microwave input end with a rectangular iris opening in the iris plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Inventors: Satoru Kobayashi, Hideo Sugai, Toan Tran, Soonam Park, Dmitry Lubomirsky
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Patent number: 11276559Abstract: Exemplary semiconductor processing systems may include a processing chamber, and may include a remote plasma unit coupled with the processing chamber. Exemplary systems may also include an adapter coupled with the remote plasma unit. The adapter may include a first end and a second end opposite the first end. The adapter may define a central channel through the adapter. The adapter may define an exit from a second channel at the second end, and the adapter may define an exit from a third channel at the second end. The central channel, the second channel, and the third channel may each be fluidly isolated from one another within the adapter.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2017Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Mehmet Tugrul Samir, Dongqing Yang, Dmitry Lubomirsky, Peter Hillman, Soonam Park, Martin Yue Choy, Lala Zhu
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Patent number: 11276590Abstract: Exemplary support assemblies may include a top puck and a backing plate coupled with the top puck. The support assemblies may include a cooling plate coupled with the backing plate. The support assemblies may include a heater coupled between the cooling plate and the backing plate. The support assemblies may also include a back plate coupled with the backing plate about an exterior of the backing plate. The back plate may at least partially define a volume, and the heater and the cooling plate may be housed within the volume.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2017Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Mehmet Tugrul Samir, Dongqing Yang, Dmitry Lubomirsky, Peter Hillman, Soonam Park, Martin Yue Choy, Lala Zhu
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Patent number: 11264213Abstract: Gas distribution assemblies are described including an annular body, an upper plate, and a lower plate. The upper plate may define a first plurality of apertures, and the lower plate may define a second and third plurality of apertures. The upper and lower plates may be coupled with one another and the annular body such that the first and second apertures produce channels through the gas distribution assemblies, and a volume is defined between the upper and lower plates.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Qiwei Liang, Xinglong Chen, Kien Chuc, Dmitry Lubomirsky, Soonam Park, Jang-Gyoo Yang, Shankar Venkataraman, Toan Tran, Kimberly Hinckley, Saurabh Garg
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Publication number: 20210384012Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a chamber housing with an upper portion opened, the chamber housing defining a reaction space, a susceptor configured to support a substrate in the chamber housing, and a dielectric cover covering an upper portion of the chamber housing. The dielectric cover includes a dielectric lid, and a mode modifying assembly arranged around the dielectric lid to be spaced apart from the dielectric lid, the mode modifying assembly configured to adjust a distance from the dielectric lid.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2021Publication date: December 9, 2021Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jinhyuk CHOI, Siqing LU, Sangki NAM, Keesoo PARK, Soonam PARK
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Patent number: 11195699Abstract: A rotating microwave is established for any resonant mode TEmnl or TMmnl of a cavity, where the user is free to choose the values of the mode indices m, n and l. The fast rotation, the rotation frequency of which is equal to an operational microwave frequency, is accomplished by setting the temporal phase difference ?Ø and the azimuthal angle ?? between two microwave input ports P and Q as functions of m, n and l. The slow rotation of frequency ?a (typically 1-1000 Hz), is established by transforming dual field inputs ? cos ?at and ±? sin ?at in the orthogonal input system into an oblique system defined by the angle ?? between two microwave ports P and Q.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2019Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Satoru Kobayashi, Hideo Sugai, Toan Tran, Soonam Park, Dmitry Lubomirsky
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Patent number: 11195696Abstract: An electron beam generator, a plasma processing apparatus, and a plasma processing method, the electron beam generator including a side insulator configured to surround the substrate support, the side insulator having an electron beam chamber therein; a first electrode embedded in the side insulator and adjacent to a first side wall of the electron beam chamber; a second electrode on a second side wall of the electron beam chamber; and a guide in an outlet of the electron beam chamber, the guide including slits through which electron beams generated in the electron beam chamber are transmittable into the process chamber.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2020Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Dongkyu Shin, Sangki Nam, Soonam Park, Akira Koshiishi, Kyuhee Han
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Publication number: 20210217591Abstract: A method and apparatus for substrate etching are described herein. A processing chamber described herein includes a source module, a process module, a flow module, and an exhaust module. An RF source may be coupled to the chamber and a remote plasma may be generated in the source module and a direct plasma may be generated in the process module. Cyclic etching processes described may use alternating radical and direct plasmas to etch a substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2021Publication date: July 15, 2021Inventors: Toan Q. TRAN, Soonam PARK, Junghoon KIM, Dmitry LUBOMIRSKY
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Patent number: 11062887Abstract: Semiconductor processing systems are described, which may include a substrate support assembly having a substrate support surface. Exemplary substrate support assemblies may include a ceramic heater defining the substrate support surface. The assemblies may include a ground plate on which the ceramic heater is seated. The assemblies may include a stem with which the ground plate is coupled. The assemblies may include an electrode embedded within the ceramic heater at a depth from the substrate support surface. The chambers or systems may also include an RF match configured to provide an AC current and an RF power through the stem to the electrode. The RF match may be coupled with the substrate support assembly along the stem. The substrate support assembly and RF match may be vertically translatable within the semiconductor processing system.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2018Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Soonam Park, David Benjaminson, Xikun Wang, Dmitry Lubomirsky
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Patent number: 11049755Abstract: Exemplary support assemblies may include a top puck defining a substrate support surface, where the top puck is also characterized by a height. The assemblies may include a stem coupled with the top puck on a second surface of the top puck opposite the substrate support surface. The assemblies may include an RF electrode embedded within the top puck proximate the substrate support surface. The assemblies may include a heater embedded within the top puck. The assemblies may also include a ground shield embedded within the top puck. The ground shield may be characterized by an inner region extending radially through the top puck. The ground shield may further be characterized by an outer region extending perpendicular to the inner region.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2018Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: David Benjaminson, Michael Grace, Soonam Park, Dmitry Lubomirsky, Jaeyong Cho, Nikolai Kalnin, Don Channa K Kaluarachchi
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Publication number: 20210189564Abstract: Exemplary semiconductor processing chamber showerheads may include a dielectric plate characterized by a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The dielectric plate may define a plurality of apertures through the dielectric plate. The dielectric plate may define a first annular channel in the first surface of the dielectric plate, and the first annular channel may extend about the plurality of apertures. The dielectric plate may define a second annular channel in the first surface of the dielectric plate. The second annular channel may be formed radially outward from the first annular channel. The showerheads may also include a conductive material embedded within the dielectric plate and extending about the plurality of apertures without being exposed by the apertures. The conductive material may be exposed at the second annular channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2021Publication date: June 24, 2021Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Laksheswar Kalita, Soonam Park, Dmitry Lubomirsky, Tien Fak Tan, LokKee Loh, Saravjeet Singh, Tae Won Kim
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Publication number: 20210151300Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, the apparatus including a plasma region in which plasma is generated; a processing region in which a substrate is processable; a shower head including a first channel and a second channel, the first channel being a passage through which the plasma flows between the plasma region and the processing region and the second channel being a passage through which a process gas is supplied to the processing region, the first channel and the second channel being separated from each other; a substrate support supporting the substrate in the processing region; and a cooler configured to supply a cooling fluid to a cooling channel of the substrate support.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2020Publication date: May 20, 2021Inventors: Jieun JUNG, Siqing LU, Soonam PARK, Kyuhee HAN
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Patent number: 11004661Abstract: A method and apparatus for substrate etching are described herein. A processing chamber described herein includes a source module, a process module, a flow module, and an exhaust module. An RF source may be coupled to the chamber and a remote plasma may be generated in the source module and a direct plasma may be generated in the process module. Cyclic etching processes described may use alternating radical and direct plasmas to etch a substrate.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2016Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Toan Q. Tran, Soonam Park, Junghoon Kim, Dmitry Lubomirsky
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Publication number: 20210110997Abstract: An electron beam generator, a plasma processing apparatus, and a plasma processing method, the electron beam generator including a side insulator configured to surround the substrate support, the side insulator having an electron beam chamber therein; a first electrode embedded in the side insulator and adjacent to a first side wall of the electron beam chamber; a second electrode on a second side wall of the electron beam chamber; and a guide in an outlet of the electron beam chamber, the guide including slits through which electron beams generated in the electron beam chamber are transmittable into the process chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Inventors: Dongkyu SHIN, Sangki NAM, Soonam PARK, Akira KOSHIISHI, Kyuhee HAN
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Publication number: 20210074558Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus, including a processing chamber including a first internal space and a second internal space arranged in a vertical direction, the first internal space being configured to receive process gas to generate plasma; an induction electrode configured to divide the processing chamber, and having a plurality of through-holes arranged to connect the first internal space and the second internal space, wherein the plurality of through-holes are configured to induce an ion beam extracted from ions included in the plasma generated in the first internal space; a radical supply located in the second internal space, and including a reservoir configured to receive chemical liquid in which an object to be processed is immersed, and a lower electrode configured to apply nanopulses to the reservoir to generate radicals from the chemical liquid; and a chemical liquid supply configured to supply the chemical liquid to the reservoir.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2020Publication date: March 11, 2021Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sang Ki NAM, Jang-Yeob LEE, Sungyeol KIM, Sunghyup KIM, Soonam PARK, Siqing LU
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Patent number: 10920319Abstract: Exemplary semiconductor processing chamber showerheads may include a dielectric plate characterized by a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The dielectric plate may define a plurality of apertures through the dielectric plate. The dielectric plate may define a first annular channel in the first surface of the dielectric plate, and the first annular channel may extend about the plurality of apertures. The dielectric plate may define a second annular channel in the first surface of the dielectric plate. The second annular channel may be formed radially outward from the first annular channel. The showerheads may also include a conductive material embedded within the dielectric plate and extending about the plurality of apertures without being exposed by the apertures. The conductive material may be exposed at the second annular channel.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2019Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Laksheswar Kalita, Soonam Park, Dmitry Lubomirsky, Tien Fak Tan, LokKee Loh, Saravjeet Singh, Tae Won Kim
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Patent number: 10920320Abstract: Methods of monitoring a plasma while processing a semiconductor substrate are described. In embodiments, the methods include determining the difference in power between the power delivered from the plasma power supply and the power received by the plasma in a substrate processing chamber. The power received may be determined using a V/I sensor positioned after the matching circuit. The power reflected or the power lost is the difference between the delivered power and the received power. The process may be terminated by removing the delivered power if the reflected power is above a setpoint. The VRF may further be fourier transformed into frequency space and compared to the stored fourier transform of a healthy plasma process. Missing frequencies from the VRF fourier transform may independently or further indicate an out-of-tune plasma process and the process may be terminated.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2017Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Junghoon Kim, Soonam Park, Tae Seung Cho, Dmitry Lubomirsky, Nikolai Kalnin