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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:
Oct. 08, 2019

Filed:

Jan. 18, 2016
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Chunlei Zhang, Saratoga, CA (US);

Phillip Criminale, Livermore, CA (US);

Steven E. Babayan, Los Altos, CA (US);

David Ullstrom, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

APPLIED MATERIALS, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 3/68 (2006.01); C23C 16/00 (2006.01); H05B 1/02 (2006.01); H01L 21/67 (2006.01); H01L 21/66 (2006.01); H01L 21/683 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 1/0233 (2013.01); H01L 21/67103 (2013.01); H01L 21/67248 (2013.01); H01L 21/6831 (2013.01); H01L 22/20 (2013.01);
Abstract

Implementations described herein provide a method for processing a substrate on a substrate support assembly which enables both lateral and azimuthal tuning of the heat transfer between an electrostatic chuck and a substrate. The method includes processing a first substrate using a first temperature profile on the ESC having primary heaters and spatially tunable heaters. A deviation profile is determined from a result of processing the first substrate from a target result profile. The first temperature profile is adjusted to a second temperature profile on the ESC based on the deviation profile. Adjusting to the second temperature profile includes incrementing the power to one or more spatially tunable heaters in one or more discrete locations corresponding to the deviations profile. A second substrate is then processed on the ESC using the second temperature profile.


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