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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2024
Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Wolfgang R. Aderhold, Cupertino, CA (US);
Karthik Raman Sharma, Fremont, CA (US);
Yi Wang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of cleaning a process chamber is provided including supplying a plasma from a remote plasma source to an interior volume of a rapid thermal processing chamber during a first time period, the rapid thermal processing chamber including a plurality of lamps configured to heat an interior volume of the rapid thermal processing chamber; and providing heat from the plurality of lamps to heat the interior volume of the rapid thermal processing chamber during the first time period when the plasma from the remote plasma source is provided to the interior volume of the rapid thermal processing chamber.