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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:
Mar. 24, 2026

Filed:

Jul. 26, 2023
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Rupankar Choudhury, Agartala, IN;

Sanjay G. Kamath, Fremont, CA (US);

Juan Carlos Rocha-Alvarez, San Carlos, CA (US);

Sridhar Bachu, Hyderabad, IN;

Mukesh Singh Dhami, Lucknow, IN;

Dan-Il Yoon, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 37/32 (2006.01); C23C 16/44 (2006.01); C23C 16/455 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 37/32862 (2013.01); C23C 16/4412 (2013.01); C23C 16/4558 (2013.01); H01J 37/32834 (2013.01); H01J 2237/3321 (2013.01);
Abstract

A processing chamber and port adaptor are provided. Processing chambers include a chamber body having a lid coupled to the first end of the chamber body, a gas ring adjacent the first end of the chamber body, and a substrate support, where a processing region is defined between the substrate support and the lid. The processing chamber includes a port adapter coupled to the second end of the chamber body. The port adapter includes a body defining a plurality of apertures in fluid communication with the processing region, where each of the apertures are spaced apart along the body such that a distance between adjacent apertures is within about 20% of an average aperture spacing distance, an individually controllable valve fluidly coupled to one or more of the plurality of apertures, and an exhaust system in fluid communication with a system foreline and the plurality of apertures.


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