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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 1995
Filed:
Feb. 28, 1994
Tetsunori Kaji, Tokuyama, JP;
Takashi Fujii, Kudamatsu, JP;
Motohiko Yoshigai, Kudamatsu, JP;
Yoshinao Kawasaki, Yamaguchi, JP;
Masaharu Nishiumi, Kudamatsu, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A microwave plasma processing apparatus includes a vacuum chamber which is evacuated to a predetermined pressure and into which processing gas is introduced, a sample table, disposed in the vacuum chamber, to which an AC voltage is applied, a microwave generating device for generating microwaves and introducing the microwaves towards a surface to be processed of a sample located on the sample table, a magnetic field generating device for generating a magnetic field in the vacuum chamber, an insulator disposed on a part of the vacuum chamber exposed to a plasma produced in the vacuum chamber by interaction of the processing gas, the microwaves, and the magnetic field, and a ground electrode disposed in the vacuum chamber at a place which is on a microwave introduction side of the vacuum chamber with respect to the surface of the sample table on which the sample is placed, a surface of the ground electrode being covered by a semiconducting thin film.