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Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2020

Filed:

Nov. 09, 2017
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Kartik Shah, Saratoga, CA (US);

Nisha Prakash Holla, Bangalore, IN;

Vijaykumar Krithivasan, San Jose, CA (US);

Anantha K. Subramani, San Jose, CA (US);

Hamid Noorbakhsh, Oakland, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C 16/40 (2006.01); C23C 16/455 (2006.01); C23C 16/505 (2006.01); C23C 16/44 (2006.01); C23C 16/452 (2006.01); H01J 37/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C 16/45565 (2013.01); C23C 16/4411 (2013.01); C23C 16/452 (2013.01); C23C 16/45561 (2013.01); C23C 16/45572 (2013.01); C23C 16/505 (2013.01); H01J 37/3244 (2013.01); H01J 37/32522 (2013.01);
Abstract

An apparatus and method for cooling a gas distribution assembly with a cooling plate. The cooling plate having a body having a top surface, an outer perimeter, a center, an inner zone and an outer zone. A plurality of channels formed through the top surface. The plurality of channels having a first outer channel having one or more first outer channel segments configured for flowing a first cooling fluid from a cooling fluid inlet to a cooling fluid outlet and a first inner channel disposed between the first outer channel and the center having one or more first inner channel segments configured for flowing a second cooling fluid from a cooling fluid inlet to a cooling fluid outlet wherein flow in adjacent segments is in an opposite direction.


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