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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 1995
Filed:
Oct. 20, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignees:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Tokyo Electron Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
31511151 ; 31511141 ;
Abstract
Under a reduced pressure, an RF electric field is applied at a right angle to a main face of an article-to-be-treated such as a semiconductor, wafer placed on a cathode in treatment chamber. At the same time, a magnetic field is applied thereto by a magnetic field applying device to generate a plasma by a magnetron discharge. The magnetic field is formed in such a fashion that adjacent magnetic lines of flux are not in parallel with one another on the main face of the article-to-be-treated. Charged particles in the plasma drift in a diverging direction with Lorenz force so as to prevent electrification of the article-to-be-treated.