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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:
Sep. 17, 2024

Filed:

Mar. 18, 2021
Applicant:

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited, Hsinchu, TW;

Inventors:

Yu-Ting Tsai, New Taipei, TW;

Chung-Liang Cheng, Changhua, TW;

Wen-Cheng Cheng, Hsinchu, TW;

Che-Hung Liu, Hsinchu, TW;

Yu-Cheng Shen, Hsinchu County, TW;

Chyi-Tsong Ni, Hsinchu, TW;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C 16/455 (2006.01); C23C 16/505 (2006.01); H01J 37/32 (2006.01); H01L 21/67 (2006.01); H01L 21/768 (2006.01); H01L 23/522 (2006.01); H01L 23/532 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C 16/45536 (2013.01); C23C 16/505 (2013.01); H01J 37/32082 (2013.01); H01J 37/3266 (2013.01); H01L 21/67023 (2013.01); H01L 21/76877 (2013.01); H01L 23/5226 (2013.01); H01L 23/53219 (2013.01);
Abstract

An apparatus for manufacturing a semiconductor device may include a chamber, a chuck provided in the chamber, and a biased power supply physically connected with the chuck. The apparatus may include a target component provided over the chuck and the biased power supply, and a magnetron assembly provided over the target component. The magnetron assembly may include a plurality of outer magnetrons and a plurality of inner magnetrons, and a spacing between each adjacent magnetrons of the plurality of outer magnetrons may be different from a spacing between each adjacent magnetrons of the plurality of inner magnetrons.


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