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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 20, 2015
Applicant:
Tokyo Electron Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 37/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 37/32715 (2013.01); H01J 37/32697 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed is an electrostatic chuck including a circular placing region configured to place a processing target object thereon. The placing region includes a bottom surface and a plurality of protrusions configured to protrude from the bottom surface. Further, the plurality of protrusions is formed at a plurality of positions set at a regular interval on each of a plurality of circles set concentrically and at a regular interval around a center of the placing region. Furthermore, among the plurality of positions, a plurality of positions set on each of any two adjacent circles is set not to be positioned on the same straight line extending from the center.