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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2023
Ngk Insulators, Ltd., Nagoya, JP;
Tatsuya Kuno, Nagoya, JP;
Seiya Inoue, Handa, JP;
NGK INSULATORS, LTD., Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
A wafer placement table includes a ceramic plate having a wafer placement surface and an electrode, a cooling plate made of a metal-ceramic composite and having a cooling medium passage, and a joining layer configured to join the plates. A distance from the wafer placement surface to at least one of upper base or lower base of the cooling medium passage is not constant. The cooling plate has a plurality of plate portions including a first plate portion and a second plate portion, and has a structure in which the plurality of plate portions metal-joined to each other. The first plate portion has a first passage portion which is a through groove having the same shape as the cooling medium passage. The second plate portion has a second passage portion which is a bottomed groove disposed in at least part of a region facing the first passage portion.