US Patent:
20120152900, Jun 21, 2012
Inventors:
ROBERT P. CHEBI - San Carlos CA, US
STANLEY DETMAR - Mountain View CA, US
ALAN CHESHIRE - Glasgow, GB
GABRIEL ROUPILLARD - Stockholm, SE
ALFREDO GRANADOS - San Antonio TX, US
Assignee:
APPLIED MATERIALS, INC. - Santa Clara CA
International Classification:
C23F 1/00
C23F 1/08
H05H 1/24
US Classification:
216 67, 31511121, 15634533
Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for gas delivery into plasma processing chambers are provided herein. In some embodiments, an apparatus for processing a substrate includes a process chamber having a processing volume, a substrate support disposed in the processing volume, an inductively coupled plasma source to generate an electric field within the processing volume that includes one or more regions of local maxima in the magnitude of the electric field, and one or more gas injectors to selectively direct a predominant portion of a process gas flowed through the one or more gas injectors into the one or more regions of local maxima.