Veeco Instruments Inc.

Yuliy Rashkovsky

Alexander I Gurary

Sandeep Krishnan

Mandar Deshpande

Leo A Chin

Aniruddh Parekh

Boris Volf

Lukas Urban

Aniruddha Bagchi

Brett Stuart Snowden

Jeffrey Scott Montgomery

Miguel Angel Saldana

Siddharth Patel

A substrate reactor with centering pin for epitaxial deposition includes a vacuum chamber and a tube configured to rotate in the vacuum chamber around a tube geometrical center axis. A substrate carrier forming a pocket dimensioned for holding a substrate on a top surface includes an aperture that is centrally located on a bottom surface. The substrate carrier is positioned on and in contact with a top surface of the tube. A centering pin is positioned along a geometrical center axis of rotation of the substrate carrier. The centering pin has a first end positioned in the aperture on the bottom surface of the substrate carrier and a second end fixed inside the reactor so that the substrate carrier rotates around the geometrical center axis of the substrate carrier independent of the geometrical center axis of the tube.

Reactor with centering pin for epitaxial deposition

Chemical vapor deposition wafer carrier with thermal cover

Wafer carrier with a 33-pocket configuration

A wafer carrier for use in a system for growing epitaxial layers on one or more wafers by chemical vapor deposition. The wafer carrier includes wafer retention pockets recessed in its body. Each pocket includes a floor surface and a peripheral wall surface surrounding the floor surface and defining a periphery of that pocket. Each pocket has a center situated along a corresponding wafer carrier radial axis. In each of the pockets, a set of bumpers is positioned primarily at a distal portion of the wafer retention pocket opposite the central axis so as to maintain a gap of at least a predefined size between the peripheral wall surface at the distal portion and an edge of a wafer to be placed in the wafer retention pocket.

Wafter carrier for chemical vapor deposition systems

Wafer carrier with a multi-pocket configuration

Wafer handling assembly

A wafer carrier used in wafer treatments such as chemical vapor deposition has pockets for holding the wafers and support surfaces for supporting the wafers above the floors of the pockets. The carrier is provided with locks for restraining wafers against upward movement away from the support surfaces. Constraining the wafers against upward movement limits the effect of wafer distortion on the spacing between the wafer and the floor surfaces, and thus limits the effects of wafer distortion on heat transfer. The carrier may include a main portion and minor portions having higher thermal conductivity than the main portion, the minor portions being disposed below the pockets.

Enhanced wafer carrier

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Yuliy Rashkovsky