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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2014
Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Joseph Yudovsky, Campbell, CA (US);
Robert T. Trujillo, San Jose, CA (US);
Kevin Griffin, Livermore, CA (US);
Garry K. Kwong, San Jose, CA (US);
Kallol Bera, San Jose, CA (US);
Li-Qun Xia, Cupertino, CA (US);
Mandyam Sriram, San Jose, CA (US);
Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A heating module for use in a substrate processing chamber. The heating module having a housing with a heat source therein. The heating module can be part of a gas distribution assembly positioned above a susceptor assembly to heat the top surface of the susceptor and wafers directly. The heating module can have constant or variable power output. Processing chambers and methods of processing a wafer using the heating module are described.