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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2024
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;
Tsung-Cheng Wu, Hsinchu, TW;
Ming-Hsien Lin, Taichung, TW;
Chun-Fu Chen, Hsinchu, TW;
Sheng-Ying Wu, Hsinchu, TW;
TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD., Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
To reduce the occurrence of current alarms in a semiconductor etching or deposition process, a controller determines an offset in relative positions of a cover ring and a shield over a wafer within a vacuum chamber. The controller provides a position alarm and/or adjusts the position of the cover ring or shield when the offset is greater than a predetermined value or outside a range of acceptable values.
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