Claims
- 1. A plasma treatment system for implantation, said system comprising:a vacuum chamber in which a plasma is generated in said chamber; and p1 susceptor having a susceptor face disposed in said chamber to support a substrate comprising a substrate face, said susceptor face being substantially a same surface size as said substrate face, whereupon said susceptor face being substantially covered by said substrate face to thereby reduce exposed regions of said susceptor face, said susceptor comprising a material selected from stainless steel or aluminum, and said susceptor is coated with a silicon bearing material, said silicon bearing material being selected from amorphous silicon, polysilicon, or crystalline silicon.
- 2. The system of claim 1 wherein said chamber comprises a plurality of substantially planar rf transparent windows on a surface of said chamber.
- 3. The system of claim 2 further comprising:an rf generator; and at least two rf sources, each external to said vacuum chamber and each of said rf source electrically coupled to said rf generator and juxtaposed to a respective one of said plurality of substantially planar rf transparent windows, and operative to generate said plasma in the vacuum chamber, said rf sources being operative to produce a local, substantially uniform plasma proximate said substrate.
- 4. The system of claim 3 further comprising at least one tuning circuit, each said at least one tuning circuit being electrically connected to one of said at least two rf sources.
- 5. The system of claim 1 wherein said susceptor comprises an edge defined along said susceptor face and a contoured underlying surface that slopes from said edge to a center region of said susceptor.
- 6. The system of claim 5 wherein said contoured underlying surface deflects ions away from said susceptor face to prevent a possibility of particulate contamination derived from said deflected ions.
- 7. The system of claim 1 wherein said substrate is a silicon bearing wafer.
- 8. The system of claim 1 wherein said system is provided in a cluster tool.
- 9. The system of claim 1 wherein said system is provided as a stand alone unit.
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application claims priority from the provisional patent application entitled CONTOURED PLATEN DESIGN FOR PLASMA IMMERSION ION IMPLANTATION, filed Feb. 11, 1998 and assigned application Ser. No. 60/074,386 the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated in its entirety for all purposes.
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