DISCHARGE STARTING MECHANISM OF PLASMA PROCESSING DEVICE

PURPOSE:To start the discharge of a microwave simply and securely by installing the output terminal of a high voltage generating device to the outer wall near the discharge member of a discharge tube, and applying an AC high voltage to the outer wall of the discharge tube immediately after the micro...

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Hauptverfasser: SUNADA TAKESHI, TAKADA TOSHINARI, FUJIMOTO HIDEKI
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:PURPOSE:To start the discharge of a microwave simply and securely by installing the output terminal of a high voltage generating device to the outer wall near the discharge member of a discharge tube, and applying an AC high voltage to the outer wall of the discharge tube immediately after the microwave is applied. CONSTITUTION:A wafer substrate 17 is loaded on a holding board 16 in a vacuum processing chamber 10, and after heating to a specific temperature, the chamber 10 and a discharge tube 20 are vacuum evacuated by a vacuum pump 13. At the same time, the oxygen gas is fed from a gas feeding end 25 into the tube 20. Then, a microwave with the frequency 2.45 GHz is applied from a microwave current source 31, and immediately after that, a voltage with + or -6KV in the earthing standard is applied to the outer wall of the tube 20 through the output terminal of an AC voltage trigger. A plasma of oxygen gas is produced by the discharge in the tube 20, and a gas including high activity of neutral oxygen radicals is led in to the chamber 10. The oxygen gas is reacted with a resist membrane on the substrate 17, and the membrane can be ashing removed.