Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Physical vapor deposition (PVD) plasma energy control per dynamic magnetron control
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Application No.: US15290150Application Date: 2016-10-11
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Publication No.: US10312065B2Publication Date: 2019-06-04
- Inventor: Martin Lee Riker , Keith A. Miller , Shreekant Gayaka , Carl R. Johnson
- Applicant: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
- Current Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Moser Taboada
- Agent Alan Taboada
- Main IPC: H01J37/34
- IPC: H01J37/34 ; C23C14/35 ; C23C14/54 ; H01J37/32 ; H01L21/285 ; H01L21/3065 ; H01L21/66

Abstract:
A method, apparatus and system for controlling the processing of a substrate within a process chamber are described herein. In some embodiments, a method of controlling a substrate process within a process chamber includes determining a position of a moveable magnetron in the process chamber relative to a reference location on a surface of the substrate and modulating a power parameter of at least one power supply affecting substrate processing based on the determined position of the magnetron to control, for example, at least one of a deposition rate or an etching rate of the substrate processing. In one embodiment, the modulated power parameter is a power set point of at least one of a direct current (DC) source power, a radio frequency (RF) bias power, a DC shield bias voltage, or an electromagnetic coil current of the at least one power supply.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180025895A1 PHYSICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION (PVD) PLASMA ENERGY CONTROL PER DYNAMIC MAGNETRON CONTROL Public/Granted day:2018-01-25
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