Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Byung-Ho Ahn

Hong-bae Park

Jae-Jong Han

Kyoung-Seok Kim

Seung Mok Shin

Cheol-Kyu Yang

Seog-Min Lee

Hwa-Sik Kim

Chul-Young Jang

Yong-Kyu Joo

Sang-Cheol Ha

Dong-min Son

Dong-Min Son

Du-Han Jeon

A wafer processing apparatus includes a reaction tube extending in a vertical direction, a door plate positioned under the reaction tube to seal the reaction tube. The door plate may be configured to load a boat into the reaction tube and support a plurality of wafers. The wafer processing apparatus may include a cap plate on the door plate, the cap plate including a cylindrical body. The cylindrical body may surround a lower side surface of the boat. A guiding recess may be formed in an outer surface of the cylindrical body along a circumferential direction of the cylindrical body. The wafer processing apparatus may include an exhaust portion configured to remove the first gas from the reaction tube through the guiding recess.

Apparatus for processing wafers

A batch type apparatus may include a tube; a boat configured to receive a plurality of semiconductor substrates, the boat vertically moved into the tube; a gas nozzle vertically arranged in the tube, the tube having a first portion and a second portion upwardly extended from the first portion; a gas pipe for supplying reaction gases to the gas nozzle, the gas pipe having a horizontal extension and a vertical extension, and the vertical extension extended in the gas nozzle; a fixing member for fixing the first portion of the gas nozzle to the gas pipe, the fixing member having strength higher than that of the gas nozzle; and a clamping member for clamping the gas pipe to the tube. Therefore, breakage of the gas nozzle may be suppressed.

Batch type apparatus for manufacturing semiconductor devices

A plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition apparatus and a method of forming a nitride layer using the same, wherein the plasma enhanced CVD apparatus includes a process chamber including an upper chamber with a dome shape, a lower chamber, and an insulator therebetween, a gas distributing ring, a susceptor for supporting a wafer and heating the process chamber, a plasma compensation ring surrounding the susceptor, a vacuum pump and an electric power source connected to the process chamber. The gas distributing ring has a plurality of upwardly inclined nozzles, allowing upward distribution of reactive gases. The method of forming a nitride layer includes forming a protective film on inner walls of a process chamber, the protective film having at least two layers of differeing dielectric constant, and sequentially supplying reactive gases to the process chamber. A nitride layer formed thereby has low hydrogen content, good density and oxidation resistance.

Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition apparatus and method for forming nitride layer using the same

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Byung-Ho Ahn