Patent ID: 9157145
Filing Date: 2015-10-13
Classification: C23C

Abstract:
1. A substrate processing system comprising: a front end module for transporting cassettes, each cassette holding a preset number of substrates therein; a loading module coupled to the front end module and having mechanism for loading substrates from the cassettes onto carriers; a plurality of processing chambers coupled to each other in series, each processing chamber defining a vacuum chamber isolated from other processing chambers by gate valves, and each processing chamber having tracks for transporting the carriers directly from one processing chamber to the next; wherein at least one of the plurality of processing chambers comprise at least one combination source, each combination source comprising: a housing configured to be mounted onto the processing chamber; a sputtering source housed within the housing; and an evaporator housed within the housing; wherein the sputtering source and evaporator are configured to direct material simultaneously therefrom into the vacuum chamber for deposition onto the substrate.