Sen Corporation, an Shi and Axcelis Company

Takashi Nishi

Mitsuaki Kabasawa

Mitsukuni Tsukihara

Takanori Yagita

Junichi Murakami

Masaki Ishikawa

Michiro Sugitani

Tetsuya Kudo

Hiroshi Kawaguchi

In an irradiation system with an ion beam/charged particle beam having an energy filter, the energy filter is formed by deflection electrodes and a deflection magnet which can be switchingly used. The deflection magnet has a general window-frame shape and is formed with a hollow portion at its center. The deflection electrodes are installed, along with suppression electrodes, in a vacuum chamber arranged in the hollow portion of the deflection magnet. The deflection electrodes are installed with respect to the deflection magnet such that a deflection trajectory of a beam caused by a magnetic field and a deflection trajectory of a beam caused by an electric field overlap each other. Since the deflection electrodes and the deflection magnet can be switchingly used, the system can deal with a wider range of beam conditions and thus is widely usable.

Irradiation system with ion beam/charged particle beam

A beam space-charge compensation device is applied to an angular energy filter provided in an ion beam processing system that performs processing by irradiating onto a wafer with an ion beam. The beam space-charge compensation device comprises a plasma shower provided in a beam-guiding chamber of the angular energy filter. The plasma shower comprises an arc chamber having a filament for generating thermo-electrons for plasma. The arc chamber comprises an extraction hole for extracting the thermo-electrons. The plasma shower is arranged such that the extraction hole is located on lines of magnetic force, perpendicular to an ion beam advancing direction, of the magnetic field and that a center axis of the filament and a center axis of said extraction hole coincide with the lines of magnetic force, perpendicular to the ion beam advancing direction, of the magnetic field.

Beam space-charge compensation device and ion implantation system having the same

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Ehime, Japan

Takashi Nishi