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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:
Jun. 17, 2025

Filed:

May. 30, 2024
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Vijay D. Parkhe, San Jose, CA (US);

Steven E. Babayan, Los Altos, CA (US);

Konstantin Makhratchev, Fremont, CA (US);

Zhiqiang Guo, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Phillip R. Sommer, Newark, CA (US);

Dan A. Marohl, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/683 (2006.01); H01L 21/67 (2006.01); H05B 1/02 (2006.01); H05B 3/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/6833 (2013.01); H01L 21/67103 (2013.01); H01L 21/67248 (2013.01); H01L 21/6831 (2013.01); H05B 1/023 (2013.01); H05B 1/0233 (2013.01); H05B 3/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

Implementations described herein provide a substrate support assembly which enables both lateral and azimuthal tuning of the heat transfer between an electrostatic chuck and a heating assembly. The substrate support assembly comprises a body having a substrate support surface and a lower surface, one or more main resistive heaters disposed in the body, a plurality of spatially tunable heaters disposed in the body, and a spatially tunable heater controller coupled to the plurality of spatially tunable heaters, the spatially tunable heater controller configured to independently control an output one of the plurality of spatially tunable heaters relative to another of the plurality of spatially tunable heaters.


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