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Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2025

Filed:

Jul. 09, 2021
Applicant:

Kokusai Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Shin Sone, Toyama, JP;

Ryota Horiike, Toyama, JP;

Hiroki Hatta, Toyama, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C 16/44 (2006.01); C23C 16/455 (2006.01); H01L 21/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C 16/4408 (2013.01); C23C 16/45557 (2013.01); H01L 21/02167 (2013.01); H01L 21/0217 (2013.01); H01L 21/02334 (2013.01);
Abstract

There is included (a) modifying a film formed on a substrate in a process chamber set at a first pressure by supplying a gas containing hydrogen and oxygen to the film; (b) purging an interior of the process chamber by supplying an inert gas into the process chamber and exhausting the interior of the process chamber, at a second pressure at which the gas containing hydrogen and oxygen remaining in the process chamber after performing (a) is maintained in a gaseous state; and (c) vacuuming the interior of the process chamber so as to reduce a pressure of the interior of the process chamber after performing (b) to a third pressure lower than the second pressure.


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