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Plasma treatment method and apparatus

US6264788A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 21, 2000
Grant dateJul 24, 2001
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Expiry dateApr 21, 2020

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  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S156/916
  • WIPO fieldSurface technology, coating
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A plasma treatment method comprising exhausting a process chamber so as to decompress the process chamber, mounting a wafer on a suscepter, supplying a process gas to the wafer through a shower electrode, applying high frequency power, which has a first frequency f.sub.1 lower than an inherent lower ion transit frequencies of the process gas, to the suscepter, and applying high frequency power, which has a second frequency f.sub.2 higher than an inherent upper ion transit frequencies of the process gas, whereby a plasma is generated in the process chamber and activated species influence the water.

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