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6806211 Device and method for processing substrate  
A substrate processing apparatus consists of: a processing container; a first processing gas supply unit and a second processing gas supply unit, countering each other, prepared on both sides of a...
6806199 Method for manufacturing silicon mirror wafer, silicon mirror wafer, and heat treatment furnace  
There are provided a manufacturing process for a mirror finished silicon wafer capable of manufacturing a mirror finished silicon wafer, having an excellent quality in which grown-in crystal...
6802906 Emissivity-change-free pumping plate kit in a single wafer chamber  
An apparatus that includes a pumping plate having a skirt, where the skirt contains a number of holes and a wafer access slot, and where the number of holes are sized and positioned to provide...
6803325 Apparatus for improving barrier layer adhesion to HDP-FSG thin films  
A method of formation of a damascene FSG film with good adhesion to silicon nitride in an HDP-CVD system. Silane (SiH 4 ), silicon tetrafluoride (SiF 4 ), oxygen (O 2 ) and argon (Ar) are used as...
6800833 Electromagnetically levitated substrate support  
An apparatus for supporting a substrate and a method for positioning a substrate include a substrate support, a stator circumscribing the substrate support, and an actuator. The actuator is coupled...
6799603 Gas flow controller system  
A gas flow controller system includes a support structure and a gas manifold and gas manifold inlet valve located at the support structure. The gas manifold is coupled to one or more injector ports...
6800139 Film deposition apparatus and method  
A film deposition apparatus ( 2 ) forms a PZT film at a high deposition rate under a low temperature by using a single showerhead ( 50 ) throughout the deposition process. Process gases including a...
6797108 Apparatus and method for evenly flowing processing gas onto a semiconductor wafer  
A semiconductor processing apparatus with a chamber, a wafer holder and a processing gas inlet pipe is provided with an impeller fixed within the inlet pipe. As gas flows through slots in the...
6797639 Dielectric etch chamber with expanded process window  
A capacitively coupled reactor for plasma etch processing of substrates at subatmospheric pressures includes a chamber body defining a processing volume, a lid provided upon the chamber body, the...
6793734 Heating furnace and semiconductor wafer-holding jig assembly and process of manufacturing semiconductor devices  
An assembly of heating furnace and semiconductor wafer-holding jig. This assembly includes a furnace body made of refractory or heat insulting material; a heater disposed around the inner side...
6794291 Reactor for processing a semiconductor wafer  
An apparatus for processing a semiconductor wafer or similar article includes a reactor having a processing chamber formed by upper and lower rotors. The wafer is supported between the rotors. The...
6794308 Method for reducing by-product deposition in wafer processing equipment  
A method of reducing by-product deposition inside wafer processing equipment includes providing a chamber having a peripheral inner wall and placing a semiconductor wafer within the chamber. The...
6789498 Elements having erosion resistance  
A component of a plasma reactor chamber for processing a semiconductor workpiece, the component being a monolithic ceramic piece formed from a mixture of yttrium aluminum perovskite (YAP) and...
6786998 Wafer temperature control apparatus and method  
An assembly for holding a substrate is provided. The substrate has a first surface, a second surface, opposite the first surface and an outer peripheral portion. The assembly includes a holding...
6786973 Method for depositing in particular crystalline layers, gas-admission element and device for carrying out the method  
The invention relates to a method and to a device for carrying out the method for depositing, in particular, crystalline layers on substrates that are also, in particular, crystalline. According to...
6787010 Non-thermionic sputter material transport device, methods of use, and materials produced thereby  
A sputter transport device comprises a sealed chamber, a negatively-biased target cathode holder disposed in the chamber, and a substrate holder disposed in the chamber and spaced at a distance...
6786936 Methods, complexes, and systems for forming metal-containing films on semiconductor structures  
A method of forming a film on a substrate using Group IVB, VB, or VIB metal complexes. The methods are particularly suitable for the preparation of semiconductor structures using chemical vapor...
6786997 Plasma processing apparatus  
A chemical vapor reaction processing apparatus including a reaction chamber; a power source; a source of a reactive film forming gas; a device for inputting the reactive film forming gas into the...
6782907 Gas recirculation flow control method and apparatus for use in vacuum system  
A gas recirculation flow control method and apparatus for use in an evacuation system having a vacuum chamber into which a gas is introduced, a first vacuum pump for exhausting the gas from the...
6776875 Semiconductor substrate support assembly having lobed o-rings therein  
A semiconductor wafer processing substrate support assembly, comprises a substrate support platform having a centrally disposed recess, coupled to a base disposed above the centrally disposed...
6776850 Preventative maintenance aided tool for CVD chamber  
A preventive maintenance tool which may be installed on a metal chemical vapor deposition (CVD) chamber to prevent escape of contaminating and toxic gases from the chamber interior during...
6777352 Variable flow deposition apparatus and method in semiconductor substrate processing  
In one embodiment of the present inventions, an exhaust outlet in a vacuum processing chamber includes a nonsealing flow restrictor which can facilitate rapid opening and closing of the flow...
6770143 Method for annealing a semiconductor  
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device including preparing a multi-chamber system having at least first and second chambers, the first chamber for forming a film and the second chamber...
6769629 Gas injector adapted for ALD process  
A gas injector includes a body, a motor and a chopper. The body is mounted on a reaction chamber in a vertically extending cylinder shape and has a plurality of gas injection tubes and a central...
6770145 Low-pressure CVD apparatus and method of manufacturing a thin film  
An LPCVD apparatus comprising: a container for accommodating an organometallic compound which serves as a raw material; a heating means for heating the container and vaporizing the organometallic...
6766818 Chemical concentration control device  
A system and method for ensuring constant concentration ratios in multi-fluid mixtures used in wafer processing steps. In one aspect the invention is a method for supplying a multi-fluid mixture to...
6767407 Auto-centering device for mechanical clamp  
A substrate holding mechanism which is particularly adaptable to automatically centering a semiconductor wafer on a platen spider as the wafer is lowered from a wafer loading and unloading position...
6767429 Vacuum processing apparatus  
In a plasma CVD apparatus for applying a film deposition process to a semiconductor wafer (W), a wafer placement stage ( 3 ) is provided at a center of a vacuum chamber ( 2 ). The placement stage (...
6761770 Atmospheric pressure wafer processing reactor having an internal pressure control system and method  
An atmospheric pressure wafer processing system for delivering at least one gas is provided, having an exhaust control feedback system that utilizes sensors to measure the pressure within the...
6758911 Apparatus and process of improving atomic layer deposition chamber performance  
An apparatus and process for atomic layer deposition that minimizes mixing of the chemicals and reactive gases is disclosed. The first precursor and second precursor are only mixed with other...
6758910 Apparatus and method for sulfonating an article and articles made therefrom  
Apparatuses, methods and articles made therefrom include the use of an on-site and on-demand gas generator for preparation of sulfonating gas to be mixed with dry air to treat surfaces of polymeric...
6758909 Gas port sealing for CVD/CVI furnace hearth plates  
A method and apparatus for sealing gas ports in CVD/CVI furnaces and processes is disclosed. A fluid direction nozzle ( 160 ) is positioned between a top lip ( 101 ) of a gas inlet port ( 100 )...
6753268 Reduced particulate etching  
A platen for use in a dry etching process for substrate production, the platen having a surface susceptible to chipping and/or particle generation from the dry etching process and a coating applied...
6752874 Apparatus for perpendicular-type ultra vacuum chemical vapor deposition  
The apparatus for a perpendicular type ultra vacuum chemical vapor deposition, which is for growing an epitaxy crystal as a semiconductor thin film based on a high quality, includes a growth...
6746539 Scanning deposition head for depositing particles on a wafer  
A deposition chamber is formed in a housing that has a substrate carrier on the interior. The substrate carrier is rotatable about a central axis, and a particle deposition head is mounted in the...
6743736 Reactive gaseous deposition precursor feed apparatus  
The invention includes reactive gaseous deposition precursor feed apparatus and chemical vapor deposition methods. In one implementation, a reactive gaseous deposition precursor feed apparatus...
6740167 Device for mounting a substrate and method for producing an insert for a susceptor  
A device for mounting a substrate includes a susceptor as a support for the substrate to be coated. The susceptor includes an insert whose surface is at least partly formed by a metal carbide layer...
6740195 Detection of nontransient processing anomalies in vacuum manufacturing process  
A sensor, such as a mass spectrometer, capable of detecting the presence of materials in a sampled gas is interconnected with a processing chamber of a vacuum manufacturing tool. The sensor...
6740166 Thin film deposition apparatus for semiconductor  
A semiconductor thin film deposition apparatus having at least one reactor in which a wafer is received, a gas supply portion for supplying a reaction gas or inert gas to the reactor, and an...
6740586 Vapor delivery system for solid precursors and method of using same  
A vaporizer delivery system including a sublimatable solid precursor material applied to a wire substrate for vaporizing and achieving a continuous uninterrupted delivery of a vaporized precursor...
6739360 Liner for use in processing chamber  
A container for use in a processing chamber to lessen the amount of contaminant particles found within the chamber after processing. The container fits closely within the chamber and includes ports...
6733591 Method and apparatus for producing group-III nitrides  
The subject invention pertains to a method and device for producing large area single crystalline III-V nitride compound semiconductor substrates with a composition Al x In y Ga 1-x-y N (where...
6734037 Method and device for producing solar cells  
The present invention concerns a process for fabricating a solar cell, wherein material is deposited on a multicrystalline silicon substrate and passivation is performed by means of hydrogen...
6733621 Venting apparatus and method for vacuum system  
A method and apparatus comprising a purge conduit and vent conduit attached to a turbo pump of a plasma etch chamber. The purge conduit may communicate with atmospheric air or with a nitrogen...
6733620 Process apparatus  
The present invention provides a process apparatus including an airtight process vessel, an exhaust system for exhausting gas from the process vessel, and a baffle plate for partitioning the...
6733592 High-temperature and high-pressure treatment device  
The present invention has an object to obtain a small-size, high-temperature and high-pressure treatment device adapted to treat semiconductor wafers. The high-temperature and high-pressure device...
6730174 Unitary removable shield assembly  
An apparatus for replacing consumables of a vacuum chamber. A unitary removable shield assembly is provided to quickly replace consumables such as a shield. The shield assembly can include an upper...
6726767 Layer processing  
Layer processing to grow a layer structure upon a substrate surface comprises supplying a vapor mixture stream to the substrate ( 28 ) to deposit constituents, monitoring growth with an...
6726800 Ashing apparatus, ashing methods, and methods for manufacturing semiconductor devices  
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes a step of forming a TiN film 2 on an underlying film 1 ; a step of coating a...
6723201 Microchip fabrication chamber wafer detection  
A microchip fabrication chamber has a pedestal adapted to retain a wafer during processing steps conducted within the chamber. A lift mechanism including a plurality of lift mechanism pins engages...