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Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2019

Filed:

Mar. 15, 2012
Applicants:

Yoshiaki Tanase, San Jose, CA (US);

Makoto Inagawa, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Akihiro Hosokawa, Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Yoshiaki Tanase, San Jose, CA (US);

Makoto Inagawa, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Akihiro Hosokawa, Cupertino, CA (US);

Assignee:

Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C 14/34 (2006.01); H01J 37/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C 14/3407 (2013.01); H01J 37/3408 (2013.01); H01J 37/3497 (2013.01); Y10T 29/49826 (2015.01);
Abstract

A sputter target assembly particularly useful for a large panel plasma sputter reactor having a target assembly sealed both to the main processing chamber and a vacuum pumped chamber housing a moving magnetron. The target assembly to which target tiles are bonded includes an integral plate with parallel cooling holes drilled parallel to the principal faces. The ends of the holes may be sealed and vertically extending slots arranged in two staggered groups on each side and machined down to respective pairs of cooling holes on opposite sides of the backing plate in pairs. Four manifolds tubes are sealed to the four groups of slots and provide counter-flowing coolant paths.


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