Tokyo Electron Limited

Daiki Satoh

Yasuharu Sasaki

Keiichi Nagakubo

Shoichiro Matsuyama

Masato Horiguchi

Takashi Nishijima

Hideyuki Kobayashi

Jinyoung Park

Michishige Saito

Shingo Koiwa

Shigeru Senzaki

Akira Nagayama

Ken Horiuchi

Koji Ando

A mounting table, to which a voltage is applied, includes an electrostatic chuck having a mounting surface for mounting a target object and a rear surface opposite to the mounting surface, the electrostatic chuck having a first through-hole formed in the mounting surface; a base, which is in contact with the rear surface of the electrostatic chuck, having a second through-hole communicating with the first through-hole; a cylindrical spacer inserted in the second through-hole; and a pin accommodated in the first through-hole and the spacer. Gaps are formed between the pin and inner walls of the first through-hole and the spacer, and the gap between the first through-hole and the pin is greater than the gap between the spacer and the pin.

Mounting table and plasma processing apparatus

A plasma processing apparatus includes a base, an electrostatic chuck provided on the base, and a dielectric layer. A bias power, whose magnitude is changed during plasma processing on a target substrate, is applied to the base. The electrostatic chuck has a central portion on which the target substrate is mounted and an outer peripheral portion on which a focus ring is mounted to surround the target substrate. The dielectric layer is provided between the outer peripheral portion of the electrostatic and the base or the focus ring and has an electrostatic capacitance that reduces a difference between an electrostatic capacitance of the central portion of the electrostatic chuck and an electrostatic capacitance of the outer peripheral portion of the electrostatic chuck.

Plasma processing apparatus and plasma processing method

A substrate processing apparatus includes: a first processing chamber; a second processing chamber; a transfer chamber; a frame structure; and an elevating part. Each of the first and the second processing chamber has a main body part and a lid part. The transfer chamber is connected to the first and the second processing chamber and accommodates a transfer unit for transferring the substrate. The frame structure has a pair of column parts and a beam part supported at top portions of the column parts. The elevating part is coupled to the beam part to be moved in a horizontal direction and moves the lid part in the vertical direction. The beam part extends above the first and the second processing chamber and the transfer chamber.

Substrate processing apparatus and maintenance method thereof

In a plasma etching apparatus for performing a plasma etching on a surface of a substrate mounted on a susceptor in a processing vessel, a focus ring is installed to surround the substrate and has a first region at an inner side on a surface thereof, in which an average surface roughness is small such that a reaction product produced during an etching processing is not captured to be deposited, and a second region at an outer side from the first region, in which an average surface roughness is large such that a reaction product produced during the etching process is captured to be deposited. A boundary between the first and the second region is a part where an etching amount is relatively significantly changed compared to other parts while the focus ring is equipped in the plasma etching apparatus and the plasma etching is performed on the substrate.

Focus ring, plasma etching apparatus and plasma etching method

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