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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2021
Hitachi High-tech Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Kiyohiko Satoh, Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi High-Tech Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To enable formation of a film that protects a sidewall of a pattern and is good in film quality, low in etching rate, and good in coverage of the sidewall, a film formation method includes a first step of supplying a gas into a vacuum processing chamber while generating plasma, and forming a film with the generated plasma on a surface of a substrate to be processed, a second step of removing halogen with plasma after the first step, and a third step of oxidizing or nitriding the film with plasma after the second step.
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