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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2017
Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Bharath Swaminathan, San Jose, CA (US);
Hanbing Wu, Millbrae, CA (US);
John Mazzocco, San Jose, CA (US);
APPLIED MATERIALS, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of a method and apparatus for annealing a substrate are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a substrate support includes a substrate support pedestal having an upper surface to support a substrate and an opposing bottom surface, wherein the substrate support pedestal is formed of a material that is transparent to radiation; a lamp assembly disposed below the substrate support pedestal and having a plurality of lamps configured to heat the substrate; a pedestal support extending through the lamp assembly to support the substrate support pedestal in a spaced apart relation to the plurality of lamps; a shaft coupled to a second end of the pedestal support opposite the first end; and a rotation assembly coupled to the shaft opposite the pedestal support to rotate the shaft, the pedestal support, and the substrate support pedestal with respect to the lamp assembly.