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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:
Jan. 05, 2016

Filed:

Mar. 04, 2015
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Gaku Furuta, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Soo Young Choi, Fremont, CA (US);

Beom Soo Park, San Jose, CA (US);

Young-jin Choi, San Jose, CA (US);

Omori Kenji, Neyagawa, JP;

Assignee:

APPLIED MATERIALS, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/311 (2006.01); H01L 21/02 (2006.01); C23C 16/34 (2006.01); C23C 16/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/0217 (2013.01); C23C 16/345 (2013.01); C23C 16/4404 (2013.01); H01L 21/02274 (2013.01); H01L 21/02299 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide methods for depositing a nitrogen-containing material on large-sized substrates disposed in a processing chamber. In one embodiment, a method includes processing a batch of substrates within a processing chamber to deposit a nitrogen-containing material on a substrate from the batch of substrates, and performing a seasoning process at predetermined intervals during processing the batch of substrates to deposit a conductive seasoning layer over a surface of a chamber component disposed in the processing chamber. The chamber component may include a gas distribution plate fabricated from a bare aluminum without anodizing. In one example, the conductive seasoning layer may include amorphous silicon, doped amorphous silicon, doped silicon, doped polysilicon, doped silicon carbide, or the like.


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