Vacuum processing apparatus
AssigneeTokyo Electron Limited
InventorsKanto Nakamura, Hiroyuki Yokohara, Yuki Motomura
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Abstract
A vacuum processing apparatus includes: a stage on which a substrate is placed; and a shutter configured to be able to move between a shielding position at which the stage is covered and a retracted position that is retracted from the shielding position, wherein the shutter arranged at the shielding position forms a processing space between the shutter and the stage, and includes: a gas supplier configured to supply a gas into the processing space; and a gas exhauster provided closer to a center side of the processing space than the gas supplier and configured to exhaust the gas from the processing space.
Claims4
A vacuum processing apparatus comprising:
- a stage on which a substrate is placed;
- and
- a shutter configured to be able to move between a shielding position at which the stage is covered and a retracted position that is retracted from the shielding position,
- wherein the shutter arranged at the shielding position forms a processing space between the shutter and the stage,
- wherein the shutter includes:
- a support member;
- a support pillar provided at an end of the support member;
- a gas supplier provided in the support member and configured to supply a gas into the processing space;
- and
- a gas exhauster provided closer to a center side of the processing space than the gas supplier and configured to exhaust the gas from the processing space,
- wherein the gas supplier includes:
- a first gas supplier configured to supply a first gas into the processing space from an outer peripheral portion of the shutter, the first gas supplier being formed in an annular shape in a plan view;
- and
- a second gas supplier configured to supply a second gas into the processing space from a central portion of the shutter, the second gas supplier being formed in an annular shape in the plan view,
- wherein the gas exhauster is arranged in an annular shape between the first gas supplier and the second gas supplier in the plan view, and
- wherein the gas exhauster is formed so as to penetrate the gas supplier in a thickness direction of the gas supplier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.