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Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2010

Filed:

Aug. 17, 2005
Applicants:

Satheesh Kuppurao, San Jose, CA (US);

David K. Carlson, San Jose, CA (US);

Manish Hemkar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Andrew Lam, San Francisco, CA (US);

Errol Sanchez, Tracy, CA (US);

Howard Beckford, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Satheesh Kuppurao, San Jose, CA (US);

David K. Carlson, San Jose, CA (US);

Manish Hemkar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Andrew Lam, San Francisco, CA (US);

Errol Sanchez, Tracy, CA (US);

Howard Beckford, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C 16/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Methods are disclosed for adjusting the temperature of at least a portion of the surface of a reaction chamber during a film formation process to control film properties. More than one portion of the chamber surface may be temperature-modulated, and may be accomplished by actively keeping the temperature of a first wall of the reaction chamber above the temperature of a second wall during the film formation process.


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