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I went to manually scrub out our ICP-Cl Etcher with IPA as I usually do every 1-2 weeks, and opened up the chamber to find large quantities of white powder caked along the upper portion of the metal rim near where it meets the ceramic liner. Large amounts
of it seemed to have fallen onto the table as well. (See Photos). Has anyone ever encountered this? Any idea what it might be?</div>
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Here are my suspicions and more details: </div>
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<div class="elementToProof" role="presentation">One of my colleagues commented that it looked like the Aluminum/a she gets in her deposition tools, and I was wondering if something is leeching out of the liner and it needs to be replaced? Might explain why
it's concentrated at the border, and appears in such visibly large quantities for a nano-scale etch tool</div>
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<div class="elementToProof" role="presentation">The immediate suspect of course is also a solid etch product, but we have not had any new or unusual materials in the chamber since the last cleaning two weeks ago (or at least, as far as users have told us).
We have recently changed our clean recipes so that instead of just a blanket O2 clean for everything, there are now customized cleans based on what people are etching, but people seem to be following the rules on this pretty well (see attached). I have also
attached a summary of what has been etched in the chamber since the last manual clean and using what gasses. (We are aware LiNbO3 is not volatile, thus the regular manual cleanings). One thing that also occurred to me was the possibility of LiF formation
with increasing amounts of CF4 being run from the new cleans and reacting with sputtered LiNbO3 in the chamber (but again, this seems like an uncannily large quantity of solid for that). </div>
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I collected some with kapton tape for XPS analysis, but curious to see if anyone else has encountered this, especially if it's an issue with the tool liner itself.</div>
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