Patent ID: 11862480
Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
Field: Semiconductors (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  C | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A processing tool comprising:
a pre-clean chamber having a substrate support therein, the pre-clean chamber including a shutter disk comprising a getter material;
a buffer station;
a robot configured to access the pre-clean chamber and the buffer station, and move the shutter disk into and out of the pre-clean chamber and the buffer station; and
a controller connected to the pre-clean chamber, the buffer station and the robot, the controller having a configuration for sputtering the shutter disk to deposit the getter material on the walls of a processing chamber and one or more configurations selected from: etching a substrate with a plasma to remove native oxides and form a cleaned substrate, or depositing a barrier layer.