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Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2025

Filed:

Apr. 07, 2023
Applicant:

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

Inventor:

Mauro Cimino, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01T 23/00 (2006.01); H01L 21/67 (2006.01); H01L 21/683 (2006.01); H01L 21/687 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/67103 (2013.01); H01L 21/67248 (2013.01); H01L 21/6833 (2013.01); H01L 21/68785 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present technology includes methods and systems for improving substrate processing. Methods and systems include disposing a substrate on a pedestal that includes a plurality of heating zones each with an independent heater, processing the substrate according to an initial substrate processing recipe that includes an initial pedestal temperature, collecting initial substrate feedback of one or more substrate properties and providing the data as a first input to a substrate control algorithm. Methods include generating a substrate model based upon one or more modeling tests of the substrate, providing the generated substrate model as a second input to the substrate control algorithm, controlling the heater power or heater temperature to achieve a targeted substrate property in one or more substrate regions. Methods include where the correction is calculated and performed by a processor running the substrate control algorithm based upon the first input and the second input.


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