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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. 11, 2003

Filed:

Jul. 09, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:

Michael X. Yang, Fremont, CA (US);

Henry Ho, San Jose, CA (US);

Steven A. Chen, Fremont, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C 1/600 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C 1/600 ;
Abstract

Methods and apparatuses of forming a film on a substrate including introducing a pretreatment material into a processing chamber sufficient to form a film as a portion of an inner surface of the processing chamber to inhibit outgassing from that portion of the chamber, introducing a substrate into the chamber, and forming a film on the substrate.


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