Ngk Insulators, Inc.

Mitsuru Kojima

Hiroshi Takebayashi

Jyunya Waki

A member for semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes a ceramic plate incorporating an electrode; a ceramic plate through hole extending through the ceramic plate in an up-and-down direction; a base plate having electrical conductivity and located adjacent to a lower surface of the ceramic plate; a base plate through hole extending through the base plate in the up-and-down direction; an insulating sleeve inserted into the base plate through hole and having an outer circumferential surface adhered to an inner circumferential surface of the base plate through hole with an adhesive layer therebetween; and a sleeve through hole extending through the insulating sleeve in the up-and-down direction and communicating with the ceramic plate through hole, wherein the insulating sleeve has at least one ring-shaped or spiral outer circumferential groove on the outer circumferential surface of the insulating sleeve except for an upper end portion of the insulating sleeve.

Member for semiconductor manufacturing apparatus

A wafer placement table includes a ceramic base, an electrode (FR attraction electrode), a bonding terminal (power supply terminal), and an electrode lead-out portion. The ceramic base has an upper surface serving as a wafer placement surface. The FR attraction electrode is embedded in the ceramic base. The power supply terminal is inserted into the ceramic base from a lower surface of the ceramic base and penetrates a through-hole formed in the FR attraction electrode. The electrode lead-out portion is provided at each of two or more positions at intervals along a peripheral edge of the through-hole to be thicker than the FR attraction electrode and has an inner peripheral surface bonded to a side surface of the power supply terminal.

Wafer placement table

There is provided an electrostatic chuck assembly including: an electrode-embedded ceramic plate; a cooling plate that supports a bottom surface of the ceramic plate and has an internal space of an annular or arcuate shape; an internal fixation member of an annular or arcuate shape accommodated in the internal space so as to be rotatable about a central axis of the cooling plate; female threads in a multiple of n, which is an integer of 2 or more, spaced apart from each other in the internal fixation member; and n insertion holes for insertion of bolts for being fixed to a chamber, the insertion holes each being provided at the bottom of the cooling plate such that one set of n female threads is exposed. Each of the female threads is disposed such that another set of n female threads is exposed in the insertion holes when rotated.

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Handa, Japan

Mitsuru Kojima