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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2022
Lam Research Corporation, Fremont, CA (US);
Tu Hong, Tualatin, OR (US);
Chunhai Ji, Portland, OR (US);
Pengyi Zhang, Beaverton, OR (US);
Niraj Rana, West Linn, OR (US);
Feng Bi, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
Ming Li, West Linn, OR (US);
Lam Research Corporation, Fremont, CA (US);
Abstract
An electrostatic chuck (ESC) undercoating system includes a memory and a controller. The memory stores an undercoat application. The controller configured to execute the undercoat application to: determine undercoat parameters; perform a full clean process to remove undercoat deposits in processing chamber of substrate processing system; and based on the undercoat parameters, perform one or more deposition processes to deposit one or more undercoat layers on the ESC to provide an overall undercoat layer having an overall thickness between 7-15 μm, the one or more undercoat layers providing protection of the ESC during subsequent deposition processing of a substrate on the ESC.