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Rick:<br>
<br>
To add our practices at Stanford to the discussion ...<br>
<br>
1. Our newer, higher quality system has heated line between tube and
pump as well as an inline mesh filter before the pump.<br>
<br>
2. Our older system actually only has a filter on the exhaust side
of the pump. That is primarily to help avoid buildup in the exhaust
line. Our exhaust line is actually too small ... 1" OD ... so
occlusion of the exhaust line can be a problem.<br>
<br>
We have some form of abatement on each system .... in fact all of
our LPCVD either runs to an old Innovative Engineering/Delatech CDO
unit running at 800 C or to a Pure Air EDOC (Dynamic Oxidation
Chamber) to treat exhaust gases. The output of either the CDO or
EDOC then goes to our building-wide water scrubber .... that will
remove the HCl and ammonia products from the nitride process.<br>
<br>
Note: I believe that just about all nitride LPCVD processes will
have significant fractions of unreacted DCS coming out the end of
the tube. That is particularly true if you are running hgh DCS
flows, which is often the case if you are trying to produce a
silicon-rich, low-stress nitride film. So, even though we don't use
production volumes of gas, we still believe in abatement on all
LPCVD tubes.<br>
<br>
Good luck,<br>
<br>
John<br>
<br>
<br>
On 4/11/2012 5:08 AM, Morrison, Richard H., Jr. wrote:
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cite="mid:D3862732F46DEB4B93B4A7A80614D28802B754@mbx2.draper.com"
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Everyone,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am restarting a Silicon Nitride LPCVD
process and I have a few questions. The process will use a EBARA
dry pump therefore should I use a trap on the vacuum pump inlet
to catch any particulate generated?
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Any issue with excess hydrogen from the
process going into the dry pump, do I need a burn box on the
vacuum pump exhaust?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2<sup>nd</sup> question has anybody tried to
run the LPCVD process on a wafer with a platinum metal pattern
on the surface? I was wondering if there maybe some adverse
effect because of the catalytic nature of Platinum.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Rick</p>
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