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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:
Apr. 14, 2020

Filed:

Dec. 05, 2017
Applicant:

Tokyo Electron Limited, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Jun Shinagawa, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/3065 (2006.01); H01J 37/32 (2006.01); H01L 21/66 (2006.01); G01N 21/73 (2006.01); H01L 21/67 (2006.01); G01N 21/68 (2006.01); G01J 3/443 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/3065 (2013.01); G01N 21/73 (2013.01); H01J 37/3299 (2013.01); H01J 37/32183 (2013.01); H01J 37/32935 (2013.01); H01J 37/32972 (2013.01); H01J 37/32981 (2013.01); H01L 22/10 (2013.01); H01L 22/12 (2013.01); H01L 22/20 (2013.01); G01J 3/443 (2013.01); G01N 21/68 (2013.01); H01J 2237/24507 (2013.01); H01J 2237/24585 (2013.01); H01J 2237/334 (2013.01); H01L 21/67069 (2013.01); H01L 21/67248 (2013.01); H01L 21/67253 (2013.01); H01L 22/26 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and a system for monitoring a plasma chamber are provided. The method includes receiving process chamber characteristics from the plasma chamber; determining whether one or more variables associated with the process chamber characteristics are within predetermined specification. The method further includes updating a status of the plasma chamber to failure when the chamber characteristics are not within the predetermined specification. The method generates a warning notification when the chamber characteristics are within predetermined specification and when an operation status of the plasma chamber received from a fault detection system indicates a failure.


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