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US 12,606,904 B2Granted
Film forming apparatus, control apparatus for film forming appartus, and film forming method
AssigneeCanon Anelva Corporation
InventorsHiroshi Yakushiji, Reiji Sakamoto, Masahiro Shibamoto
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Abstract
A film forming apparatus has a process chamber and a processing unit provided in the process chamber and forming adhesive film. The surface of the inner walls of the process chamber is formed of a material having a large getter effect on gas or water (H2O) remaining in the process chamber.
Claims6
A control apparatus for controlling a film forming apparatus comprising:
- a process chamber;
- a processing unit provided in the process chamber configured to form an adhesive film;
- an exhaust unit capable of evacuating the process chamber;
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- a gas introduction unit introducing gas for forming the adhesive film in the process chamber,
- wherein the control apparatus further comprises a storing unit storing a control program,
- wherein the control program comprises:
- a first step of forming, on a surface of an inner wall of the process chamber, a material having a large getter effect on gas or water (H2O) remaining in the process chamber;
- a second step of exhausting the process chamber for a predetermined period of time after the first step;
- a third step of forming, on the surface of the inner wall of the process chamber, the material having a large getter effect on gas or water (H2O) remaining in the process chamber after the second step;
- a fourth step of exhausting the process chamber for a predetermined period of time after the third step;
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- an adhesive film forming step of forming the adhesive film on a substrate provided in the process chamber after the fourth step,
- wherein the exhaust unit and the gas introduction unit are controlled so that a duty cycle D=P1/P becomes 34% or more and 66% or less, when P1 is a time of the first step or the third step and P is a total time of the first step and the second step or a total time of the third step and the fourth step.
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