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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2012
Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Joseph Yudovsky, Campbell, CA (US);
Mei Chang, Saratoga, CA (US);
Faruk Gungor, San Jose, CA (US);
Paul F. Ma, Santa Clara, CA (US);
David Chu, Campbell, CA (US);
Chien-Teh Kao, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Hyman Lam, San Jose, CA (US);
Dien-Yeh Wu, San Jose, CA (US);
Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Provided are gas distribution apparatus with a delivery channel having an inlet end, an outlet end and a plurality of apertures spaced along the length. The inlet end is connectable to an inlet gas source and the outlet end is connectable with a vacuum source. Also provided are gas distribution apparatus with spiral delivery channels, intertwined spiral delivery channels, splitting delivery channels, merging delivery channels and shaped delivery channels in which an inlet end and outlet end are configured for rapid exchange of gas within the delivery channels.