Hitachi-kokusai Electric Inc.

Kokusai Electric Corporation

Tadashi Kontani

Nobuo Ishimaru

Kazuyuki Toyoda

Motonari Takebayashi

Yasuhiro Inokuchi

Nobuhito Shima

Masanori Sakai

Seiji Watanabe

Kazuyuki Okuda

Taketoshi Sato

Toru Kagaya

Yasuo Kunii

Yasushi Yagi

Tetsuo Yamamoto

Tomoyuki Yamada

Shizue Ogawa

Seiyo Nakashima

Mikio Ohno

Shigenori Tezuka

There is provided a technique that includes a process chamber configured to process a substrate; a processing gas supply part configured to supply a processing gas to the substrate; a heater configured to heat the substrate; a transfer robot configured to transfer the substrate; a first power supply connected to at least one part selected from the group of the processing gas supply part, the heater, and the transfer robot; a first controller installed between the at least one part and the first power supply; a second power supply including two or more power sources configured to drive the first controller; and a second controller installed between the first controller and the second power supply and configured to allow power to be supplied to the first controller while setting a power ratio of each of the two or more power sources of the second power supply to a predetermined value.

Substrate processing apparatus, method of manufacturing semiconductor device, and recording medium

There is installed a configuration that includes a process container; a heater chamber exhaust duct configured to discharge an air that has cooled a space at which a heater is installed; a gas box exhaust duct configured to suck and discharge an atmosphere in a gas box; a scavenger exhaust duct configured to suck and discharge an atmosphere in a scavenger; a local exhaust duct configured to suck and discharge an atmosphere in a local exhaust port installed in a transfer chamber; an exhaust damper valve including an opening degree variable mechanism installed in at least one selected from the group of the heater chamber exhaust duct, the gas box exhaust duct, the scavenger exhaust duct, and the local exhaust duct; and a controller configured to remotely control an opening degree of the exhaust damper valve.

A plasma processing apparatus comprises a processing chamber in which a plurality of substrates are stacked and accommodated; a pair of electrodes extending in the stacking direction of the plurality of substrates, which are disposed at one side of the plurality of substrates in said processing chamber, and to which high frequency electricity is applied; and a gas supply member which supplies processing gas into a space between the pair of electrodes.

Batch-type remote plasma processing apparatus

A substrate processing apparatus includes a processing chamber in which a substrate is mounted, a gas supply unit that supplies processing gas into the processing chamber, a gas exhaust unit that exhausts atmospheric gas in the processing chamber, first and second electrodes to which high-frequency power is applied to set the processing gas to an active state. Each of the first and second electrodes includes a core wire formed of a metal and plural pipe bodies that are joined to one another through the core wire so as to be bendable, and less thermally deformed than the core wire.

Substrate processing apparatus

Disclosed is a substrate processing apparatus, including: a processing chamber to accommodate a plurality of substrates therein in such a way that the substrate are vertically stacked; a gas supply system to supply processing gas into the processing chamber; an exhaust system to exhaust an atmosphere from the processing chamber; at least a pair of electrodes made of flexible member extending in a stacking direction of the substrates to activate the processing gas; and protecting tubes to accommodate the electrodes therein, wherein each of the protecting tubes is provided with a bent portion at a higher position than an uppermost substrate, and a tip end of each of the electrodes is located on a tip end side of each of the protecting tubes over the bent portion.

A substrate processing apparatus comprising: a processing chamber which is to accommodate at least one substrate; a gas supply system which is to supply processing gas into the processing chamber; an exhaust system which is to exhaust atmosphere in the processing chamber; and at least one pair of electrodes which are to bring the processing gas into an active state and which are accommodated in protection tubes such that the electrodes can be inserted into and pulled out from the protection tubes, wherein the electrodes are accommodated in the protection tube in a state where at least a portion of the electrodes is bent, and the electrodes are formed of flexible members, is disclosed.

A substrate processing apparatus comprises a reaction chamber which is to accommodate stacked substrates, a gas introducing portion, and a buffer chamber, wherein the gas introducing portion is provided along a stacking direction of the substrates, and introduces substrate processing gas into the buffer chamber, the buffer chamber includes a plurality of gas-supply openings provided along the stacking direction of the substrates, and the processing gas introduced from the gas introducing portion is supplied from the gas-supply openings to the reaction chamber.

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Tokyo, Japan

Tadashi Kontani