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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2019

Filed:

May. 11, 2016
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Leung Kway Lee, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Michael S. Cox, Gilroy, CA (US);

Pallavi Zhang, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01T 23/00 (2006.01); H01L 21/683 (2006.01); H01L 21/673 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/6833 (2013.01); H01L 21/67336 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments described herein provide an electrostatic carrier for transferring a substrate. The electrostatic carrier may have a transparent body. The transparent body may have a first surface sized to transport the substrate into and out of a processing chamber. The electrostatic carrier may also have one or more electrostatic chucking electrodes coupled to the transparent body. The one or more electrostatic chucking electrodes may include a transparent conductive oxide material. In certain embodiments the transparent conductive oxide material is an indium-tin oxide material.


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