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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 1997
Filed:
Apr. 18, 1996
Shigeru Mizuno, Kawasaki, JP;
Masahito Ishihara, Fuchu, JP;
Manabu Tagami, Fuchu, JP;
Hajime Sahase, Fuchu, JP;
Nobuyuki Takahashi, Mitaka, JP;
Anelva Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A CVD apparatus is equipped with a reactor, a substrate holder, an evacuation section, a reactive gas supply mechanism, a heating mechanism for heating the substrate holder, a differential pressure chuck clamping section for clamping the substrate, and a purge gas supply mechanism for supplying purge gas. The substrate holder is configured to have a circular purge gas blowing channel on the top surface thereof, in which a diameter of an outside wall-surface is less than a diameter of the substrate, and a plurality of purge gas passages in an inside thereof, each of which supplies the purge gas into the purge gas blowing channel. The purge gas passing the purge gas blowing channel is blown off through a clearance between the outer periphery of the substrate and the substrate holder. The purge gas passage includes a radius-directed part directed in a radius direction of the substrate holder and has a purge gas outlet provided on the outside wall-surface of the purge gas blowing channel. The flow of the purge gas in a circumferential direction within the purge gas blowing channel is turbulent and dispersed, and therefore the purge gas blow-off pressure in the whole periphery of the substrate is uniform.