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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:
Feb. 09, 2016

Filed:

Dec. 12, 2014
Applicant:

Tokyo Electron Limited, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Takashi Tanaka, Nirasaki, JP;

Yusuke Saito, Nirasaki, JP;

Mitsuaki Iwashita, Nirasaki, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C 18/16 (2006.01); C23C 18/31 (2006.01); C23C 18/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C 18/1628 (2013.01); C23C 18/1632 (2013.01); C23C 18/1678 (2013.01); C23C 18/1682 (2013.01); C23C 18/31 (2013.01); C23C 18/38 (2013.01);
Abstract

An apparatus for a plating process includes: an outer chamber; an inner chamber covered by the outer chamber; a rotatable holding mechanism configured to hold a substrate horizontally and installed in the inner chamber; a fluid supply unit configured to supply a plating solution to a preset position on the substrate; a gas supply device configured to generate a nonreactive gas and control a temperature of the nonreactive gas; a gas supply hole configured to supply the nonreactive gas into the outer chamber and provided in a top surface of the outer chamber; a plurality of gas inlet openings provided at a sidewall of the inner chamber and spaced apart at equal distances; and a rectifying plate disposed above the substrate and below the plurality of gas inlet openings inside the inner chamber, the rectifying plate having a plurality of rectifying holes uniformly disposed in the rectifying plate.


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