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US 2011/0271907 A1Published application
Device for processing a substrate, method of processing a substrate and method of manufacturing semiconductor device
AssigneeHitachi Kokusai Electric Inc.
InventorsKazuhiro Yuasa, Kazuhiro Kimura, Yasuhiro Megawa
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Abstract
Provided is a substrate processing apparatus and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, which are hard to cause a defect in processing a substrate owing to that a pressure inside a process chamber is not kept constant, and which enable a better processing of a substrate.
Claims1
A substrate processing apparatus comprising:
- a process chamber for oxidizing of a substrate;
- a water vapor gas-supplying module for supplying a water vapor gas into the process chamber;
- a water vapor gas-supplying line for supplying the water vapor gas from the water vapor gas-supplying module into the process chamber;
- an exhaust line for exhausting an inside of the process chamber;
- a pump provided in the exhaust line for vacuumizing the inside of the process chamber;
- a pressure-adjusting valve provided in the exhaust line for adjusting a pressure in the process chamber;
- a first pressure-measuring instrument for measuring an inside pressure of the process chamber;
- a second pressure-measuring instrument for measuring a differential pressure between the inside pressure of the process chamber and an outside pressure thereof;
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- a controller which controls the pressure-adjusting valve based on a value of the inside pressure of the process chamber measured by the first pressure-measuring instrument so as to keep the inside pressure of the process chamber constant, and controls the water vapor gas-supplying module based on a value of the differential pressure measured by the second pressure-measuring instrument so as to allow supply of the water vapor gas into the process chamber in a case of the inside pressure of the process chamber being smaller than the outside pressure thereof.
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