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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:
Mar. 27, 2018

Filed:

Oct. 13, 2016
Applicant:

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

Inventor:

Jeffrey Tobin, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/68 (2006.01); H01L 21/67 (2006.01); H01L 21/687 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/67201 (2013.01); H01L 21/68 (2013.01); H01L 21/68742 (2013.01); H01L 21/68785 (2013.01); H01L 21/68792 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments described herein relate to a substrate carrier system. The substrate carrier system includes a carrier for transferring a substrate within a multi-chamber processing system. The carrier may be placed in a load lock chamber for receiving the substrate, and the substrate is transferred to a processing chamber on the carrier. In the processing chamber, the carrier, with substrate, is disposed on a susceptor. The carrier can also enhance thermal control of the edge of the substrate in the processing chamber. The substrate carrier system further includes positioning features for repeatable positioning of the substrate in the processing chamber and repeatable positioning of the carrier in the load lock chamber and the processing chamber.


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