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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2020
Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
James D. Carducci, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Kenneth S. Collins, San Jose, CA (US);
Kartik Ramaswamy, San Jose, CA (US);
APPLIED MATERIALS, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Certain embodiments of the present disclosure relate to chamber liners, processing chambers that include chamber liners, and methods of using the same. In one embodiment, a processing chamber comprises a chamber body defining an interior volume and comprising an access port for inserting a substrate into the interior volume; a cathode assembly configured to generate a plasma within the interior volume; and a chamber liner comprising a smooth interior surface that is radially symmetric about a vertical axis of the chamber body. The chamber liner is configured to move between a loading position and an operation position.