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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2015
Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Hidehiro Yanai, Toyama, JP;
Shin Hiyama, Toyama, JP;
Toshiya Shimada, Toyama, JP;
Yukinori Aburatani, Toyama, JP;
KOKUSAI ELECTRIC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention increases uniformity of plasma processing in a surface to be processed of an object to be processed or increases uniformity of plasma processing between objects to be processed. There is provided a plasma processing apparatus including: a processing container; a gas supply system; an exhaust system; a plasma generating unit; a gas flow path installed between an outer wall of the processing container and the plasma generating unit, the gas flow path guiding a temperature controlling gas to flow along the outer wall of the processing container; a plurality of gas introduction holes disposed along a circumferential direction of the processing container and configured to introduce the temperature controlling gas into the gas flow path; and a gas exhaustion hole configured to exhaust the temperature controlling gas passed through the gas flow path.