Tokyo Electron Limited

Kentaro Yamaguchi

Kosuke Ogasawara

Takanori Banse

Yusuke Takino

A capacitively coupled plasma processing apparatus includes a chamber; a gas supply that supplies an inert gas into the chamber; a substrate support including a lower electrode; an upper electrode provided above the substrate support and including silicon; a first radio-frequency power supply electrically connected to the upper electrode; a second radio-frequency power supply electrically connected to the lower electrode; a bias power supply that applies a negative bias voltage to the upper electrode; and a controller that controls an overall operation of the capacitively coupled plasma processing apparatus such that the silicon-containing material is deposited on sidewalls of a mask of the substrate to narrow an opening formed on the mask by an amount greater in a second direction than in a first direction.

Plasma processing method and plasma processing apparatus

An etching method includes: (a) etching a substrate including an etching target film and a mask formed on the etching target film to form a recess that reaches the etching target film; (b) forming a protective film having a thickness corresponding to one molecular layer on a surface of the recess using a first gas; (c) etching the etching target film with plasma generated from a second gas while leaving the protective film on a side wall of the recess; and (d) repeating (b) and (c).

Etching method and etching apparatus

A plasma processing method includes: placing a substrate on a substrate support provided in a chamber of a capacitively coupled plasma processing apparatus where the substrate includes a silicon-containing film and a mask provided on the silicon-containing film and having an opening having a longitudinal direction; and supplying an inert gas into the chamber; and selectively performing one of supplying a first radio-frequency power to an upper electrode of the plasma processing apparatus to generate plasma from the inert gas and supplying a second radio-frequency power to a lower electrode of the plasma processing apparatus included in the substrate support, and applying a negative bias voltage to the upper electrode to cause positive ions from the plasma to collide with the upper electrode and release a silicon-containing material from the upper electrode, thereby depositing the silicon-containing material on the substrate.

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Miyagi, Japan

Kentaro Yamaguchi