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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 04, 2015
Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Dmitry Lubomirsky, Cupertino, CA (US);
Son T. Nguyen, San Jose, CA (US);
Anh N. Nguyen, Milpitas, CA (US);
David Palagashvill, Mountain View, CA (US);
Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A wafer carrier is described with independent isolated heater zones. In one example, the carrier has a puck to carry a workpiece for fabrication processes, a heater plate having a plurality of thermally isolated blocks each thermally coupled to the puck, and each having a heater to heat a respective block of the heater plate, and a cooling plate fastened to and thermally coupled to the heater plate, the cooling plate having a cooling channel to carry a heat transfer fluid to transfer heat from the cooling plate.