Batch-type remote plasma processing apparatus
AssigneeHitachi Kokusai Electric Inc.
InventorsKazuyuki Toyoda, Yasuhiro Inokuchi, Motonari Takebayashi, Tadashi Kontani, Nobuo Ishimaru
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Abstract
A plasma processing apparatus comprises a processing chamber in which a plurality of substrates are stacked and accommodated; a pair of electrodes extending in the stacking direction of the plurality of substrates, which are disposed at one side of the plurality of substrates in said processing chamber, and to which high frequency electricity is applied; and a gas supply member which supplies processing gas into a space between the pair of electrodes.
Claims15
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device by employing a plasma processing apparatus, the method comprising:
- accommodating a plurality of substrates in a processing chamber;
- supplying a plurality of types of processing gases in the processing chamber from a gas blowout opening, wherein at least one processing gas is supplied in the processing chamber after activating in an electrical discharging chamber by applying high frequency electricity between a pair of electrodes;
- and
- removing the processing gases from the processing chamber through a gas exhaust opening, wherein
- the plasma processing apparatus includes:
- a processing tube;
- the processing chamber provided in the processing tube;
- the electrical discharging chamber having a guttering shape provided in the processing tube, which is a space to activate a processing gas by applying high frequency electricity between the pair of electrodes provided in a direction of stacking the substrates;
- the gas blowout opening provided in the electrical discharging chamber to supply an activated processing gas to the processing chamber, wherein the gas blowout opening is provided at only one side of the substrates;
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- the gas exhaust opening provided at a circumferential position in the processing tube that is different from the circumferential position in the processing tube of the gas blowout opening, and
- when the substrates are accommodated in the processing tube, the substrates are accommodated outside the electrical discharging chamber.
A method of forming a thin film on a substrate comprising:
- accommodating a plurality of substrates in a processing chamber provided in a processing tube;
- supplying a first processing gas to the substrates;
- removing the first processing gas;
- supplying a second processing gas to the substrates;
- and
- removing the second processing gas, wherein
- at least one of the first processing gas and the second processing gas is supplied in the processing chamber from a gas blowout opening provided in an electrical discharging chamber at only one side of the substrates after activating in the electrical discharging chamber having a guttering shape provided in the processing tube, by applying high frequency electricity between a pair of electrodes in a direction of stacking the substrates, and
- the first processing gas and the second processing gas are removed from a gas exhaust opening provided at a circumferential position in the processing tube that is different from the circumferential position in the processing tube of the gas blowout opening.
A method of forming a thin film on a substrate comprising:
- accommodating a plurality of substrates in a processing chamber provided in a processing tube;
- forming a thin film on the substrates by alternately supplying a first processing gas and a second processing gas to the substrates, wherein at least one of the first processing gas and the second processing gas is supplied in the processing chamber from a gas blowout opening provided in an electrical discharging chamber at only one side of the substrates after activating in the electrical discharging chamber having a guttering shape provided in the processing tube, by applying high frequency electricity between a pair of electrodes in a direction of stacking the substrates;
- and
- removing the first processing gas and the second processing gas from a gas exhaust opening provided at a circumferential position in the processing tube that is different from the circumferential position in the processing tube of the gas blowout opening.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.