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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2003
Nobuo Ishii, Amagasaki, JP;
Yasuyoshi Yasaka, Uji, JP;
Other;
Abstract
A plasma processing apparatus includes a processing container whose interior has a mount table , a glass plate for covering an upper opening of the processing container , a microwave supplier , a coaxial waveguide having its end connected with the microwave supplier to have an inner conductor B and an outer conductor A, a radial waveguide box connected to the other end of the outer conductor A of the coaxial waveguide and formed to expand from the other end of the outer conductor A outward in the radial direction and subsequently extend downward, a disc-shaped antenna member for covering a lower opening of the radial waveguide box , the antenna member having its central part connected with the other end of the inner conductor B, and a metallic reflector arranged on the opposite side of the antenna member's part connected with the inner conductor B, for reflecting ah electric field reflected by an inner wall of the processing container . With the constitution of the apparatus, it is possible to produce a uniform plasma in the processing container, accomplishing an even processing on even a large-diameter wafer.