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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. 27, 2021

Filed:

Feb. 26, 2019
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Aniruddha Pal, San Jose, CA (US);

Victor Calderon, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Martin Jeffrey Salinas, San Jose, CA (US);

Valentin N. Todorow, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C 16/00 (2006.01); H01L 21/67 (2006.01); H01J 37/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 37/3211 (2013.01); H01J 37/321 (2013.01); H01J 37/32449 (2013.01); H01J 37/32522 (2013.01); H01J 37/32633 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of the invention generally provide a cooling mechanism utilized in a plasma reactor that may provide efficient temperature control during a plasma process. In one embodiment, a cooling mechanism disposed in a plasma processing apparatus includes a coil antenna enclosure formed in a processing chamber, a coil antenna assembly disposed in the coil antenna enclosure, a plurality of air circulating elements disposed in the coil antenna enclosure adjacent to the coil antenna assembly, and a baffle plate disposed in the coil antenna enclosure below and adjacent to the coil antenna assembly.


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