Tokyo Electron Limited

Yuichi Mimura

Hin Oh

Hideaki Sato

Naoki Takayama

Hisanori Sakai

In a plasma processing method and apparatus for monitoring an operating status of a plasma processing apparatus and/or a processing status of an object being processed, emission spectra emitted from a plasma is obtained as optical data when the plasma process is performed on the object. Quantitative data of each emission source is obtained from the obtained optical data by using reference data in a database storing therein emission spectra of a plurality of emission source as the reference data. The operating status of the plasma processing apparatus and/or the processing status of the object being processed is estimated based on changes in the quantitative data of each emission source.

Plasma processing method and apparatus

In a plasma processing method and apparatus for monitoring information on a plasma processing, a multivariate analysis is performed by using as analysis data detection values detected for each object to be processed from a plurality of detection devices disposed in the processing apparatus upon the plasma processing. At that time, for each of sections defined whenever a maintenance of the processing apparatus is carried out, the detection values detected by the detection devices in the respective sections are compensated through a compensation unit, and the compensated detection values are taken as the analysis data.

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Yuichi Mimura