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Plasma treatment method and apparatus

US6991701B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateFeb 14, 2003
Grant dateJan 31, 2006
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Expiry dateJul 25, 2023

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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 f1 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 f2 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 wafer.

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