Coating processes – Coating by vapor – gas – or smoke
Reexamination Certificate
2006-10-25
2009-12-15
Meeks, Timothy H (Department: 1792)
Coating processes
Coating by vapor, gas, or smoke
C700S121000, C427S008000, C118S715000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07632542
ABSTRACT:
A method for spatial uniformity control in thin film processing is devised which is applicable to any film quality (thickness, composition, microstructure, electrical properties, etc.) as well as to all deposition systems (CVD, PVD, etch, ALD, etc.) where the substrate is rotated to improve uniformity of the deposited thin films. The technique is based on identifying the subspace of all deposition profiles on the stationary substrate that produce uniform films under rotation and then projecting a deposition profile to be controlled onto a sequence of uniformity—producing basis functions spanning that subspace to determine the Nearest Uniformity Producing Profile (NUPP). The process parameters as well as reactor design are optimized in order to minimize uniformity optimization criterion defined as a deviation of a produced deposition profile on the stalled substrate from the NUPP.
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Meeks Timothy H
Miller, Jr. Joseph
Rosenberg , Klein & Lee
University of Maryland
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