Patent ID: 9514933
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: C23C,H01L

Claim Text:
1. A processing method comprising: placing a plurality of substrates into a plurality of recesses in a susceptor assembly in a processing chamber comprising a plurality of sections, each substrate having a surface, each section of the processing chamber separated from adjacent sections by a gas curtain comprising vacuum and purge gas streams; exposing at least a portion of the surface to a first process conditions comprising one or more of temperature change or a first reactive gas to deposit a first film on the surface in a first section of the processing chamber, the first reactive gas comprising a titanium compound; laterally moving the substrate surface through the gas curtain to a second section of the processing chamber; and exposing the first film to a second process conditions comprising one or more of temperature change or a second reactive gas to form a second film in the second section of the processing chamber, the second film comprising one or more of titanium oxide, titanium nitride, titanium silicide, titanium silicon nitride, titanium silicon oxide, titanium silicon oxynitride, titanium aluminum or titanium aluminum nitride, wherein a first portion of the surface is exposed to the first process conditions at the same time that a second portion of the surface is exposed to the second process conditions and an intermediate portion of the substrate is exposed to the gas curtain.