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Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2025

Filed:

Feb. 01, 2024
Applicant:

Kokusai Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Takeo Hanashima, Toyama, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/02 (2006.01); C23C 16/455 (2006.01); C23C 16/458 (2006.01); H01L 21/67 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/02123 (2013.01); C23C 16/455 (2013.01); C23C 16/4584 (2013.01); H01L 21/67161 (2013.01);
Abstract

There is included providing a substrate in a process chamber; and forming a film on the substrate in the process chamber by supplying an inert gas from a first supplier, supplying a first processing gas from a second supplier, and supplying an inert gas from a third supplier to the substrate, the third supplier being installed at an opposite side of the first supplier with respect to a straight line that passes through the second supplier and a center of the substrate and is interposed between the first supplier and the third supplier, to the substrate, wherein in the act of forming the film, a substrate in-plane film thickness distribution of the film is adjusted by controlling a balance between a flow rate of the inert gas supplied from the first supplier and a flow rate of the inert gas supplied from the third supplier.


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