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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 1986
Filed:
Jul. 11, 1985
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An etching apparatus according to the present invention comprises means to generate metastable excited species such as of nitrogen or rare gas molecules, means to transfer the metastable excited species into a reaction chamber in which a substrate to-be-etched is set, and means to introduce a reactive gas for etching into the reaction chamber in which the substrate to-be-etched is set; the reactive gas being activated by collision between the metastable excited species and the reactive gas so as to etch the substrate to-be-etched owing to a reaction between the activated reactive gas and the substrate to-be-etched. Further, a light source for photo-exciting the substrate to-be-etched may well be added.
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