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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2009
Applicants:
Sungtae Lee, Nirasaki, JP;
Yusuke Nakagawa, Nirasaki, JP;
Jun Yashiro, Nirasaki, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Tokyo Electron Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B08B 9/08 (2006.01); B08B 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A deposit removing method that can reliably remove deposit produced in plasma processing using plasma produced from a process gas containing methane gas and oxygen gas. In a chamber in which an electrode to which radio frequency electrical power is supplied is disposed, plasma processing is carried out on a substrate using the plasma produced from the process gas containing methane gas and oxygen gas, and then a cleaning step is carried out in which plasma is produced from a mixed gas containing fluorinated compound gas containing hydrogen in the chamber.