Numerical investigations of geometric effects on flow and thermal fields in a horizontal CVD reactor

Abstract This paper investigates numerically the effects of tilted angle of the susceptor and the upper wall and of addition of a rib on the three-dimensional (3-D) flow structures and heat transfer characteristics in a model horizontal chemical vapor deposition (CVD) reactor with a circular heated disk which simulates a 12 in wafer. The Grashof (Gr) and Reynolds (Re) numbers are kept constant at 8.13×10 4 and 100, respectively. Computed flow structures and thermal distributions indicate that as the tilted angle of the susceptor and the upper wall is increased from 0° to 9°, the sizes of transverse (return flow) and longitudinal rolls are reduced and the uniformity of heat flux distribution is improved, which would yield better film homogeneity during CVD processing. The retardation of the growth of thermal boundary layer leads to an increase of the heat flux and hence of the deposition rate. With placing a rib to the upper wall of the reactor, the heat flux on the susceptor is increased but it has a detrimental effect on the uniformity.

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