Patent ID: 11955355
Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
Field: Semiconductors (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  C | IPC C  H

Claim 16:
17. A semiconductor processing system, comprising:
a substrate processing chamber having a plurality of chamber walls forming a chamber volume therebetween; and
a non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions, the instructions when executed by a processor cause a method to be performed in the substrate processing chamber, the method comprising:
positioning a substrate and a support chuck into a first position on a robotic transfer device within a transfer volume;
raising a lift assembly to couple to the support chuck;
disengaging the support chuck from the robotic transfer device;
raising the support chuck to a second position with the lift assembly;
sealing an outer sealing surface of an outer seal ring against a lower sealing surface of at least one chamber wall to form a processing volume, the processing volume being smaller than the chamber volume, and wherein the processing volume is fluidly isolated from the transfer volume; and
processing the substrate in the processing volume.