Patent ID: 11894257
Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
Field: Semiconductors (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  C | IPC C  H

Claim 11:
12. A processing chamber comprising:
a housing having walls, a bottom and a top defining an interior volume;
a plurality of process stations in the interior volume of the housing, the process stations positioned in a circular arrangement around a rotational axis, each process station comprising a gas injector having a front face, the front face of each of the gas injectors being substantially coplanar; and
a support assembly in the interior volume of the housing, the support assembly positioned below the plurality of process stations, the support assembly including a rotatable center base with a plurality of support arms extending from the center base, each support arm having an inner end in contact with the center base and an outer end, a heater is positioned on the outer end of each of the support arms so that upon rotation of the center base the heaters move in a circular path, the heaters having a support surface configured to support a substrate during processing, and a channel is formed in the rotatable center base and the support arms, the channel configured to route electrical connections to the heater;
wherein the support surfaces of the heaters are substantially coplanar.