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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Bradley O Stimson, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C 1/434 ; H05H 1/24 ; H01L 2/1302 ; H01L 2/100 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C 1/434 ; H05H 1/24 ; H01L 2/1302 ; H01L 2/100 ;
Abstract
In a plasma deposition system for depositing a film of sputtered target material on a substrate, the output of an RF generator coupled to a coil for generating a plasma can be varied during the deposition process so that heating and sputtering of the RF coil can be more uniform by “time-averaging” RF voltage distributions along the RF coil.