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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2002
Ignacio Blanco-rivera, Allen, TX (US);
Nathan J. Kruse, McKinney, TX (US);
Sarah Hartwig, Richardson, TX (US);
Ignacio Blanco-Rivera, Allen, TX (US);
Nathan J. Kruse, McKinney, TX (US);
Sarah Hartwig, Richardson, TX (US);
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
An improvement to a Novellus HDP SPEED reactor chamber is described. An evacuation port of the Novellus SPEED Chamber is at one location in the chamber to remove injected cleaning gas from the chamber and there is a single input for cleaning gas connection into the chamber. In accordance an improvement a plurality of clean gas injectors is positioned on an adapter in the chamber and connected to the single input gas connection for distributing the cleaning gas in the chamber with the injectors spaced away from the evacuation port. The adapter is a U-shaped adapter and is positioned in the chamber with the adapter connected at the base to the single input gas connection. The adapter has two semicircular branch legs extending in opposite directions about the chamber to free ends that are connected to gas injectors. The free ends with the injectors are located in the chamber almost on the opposite end of the chamber from the evacuation port. Each of the two branch legs includes a second injector midway along the branch legs between the free ends and point of the branch to provide four injectors to evenly distribute the clean gas in the chamber.