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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2014
Hitachi High-technologies Corporation, Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A plasma processing apparatus is provided which includes a processing chamber disposed in a vacuum container, in a decompressed inside of which plasma is formed, a sample stage disposed in a lower part of the processing chamber, on a top surface of which a sample is mounted, a dielectric film made of a dielectric that forms a mounting surface on which the sample is mounted, and electrodes arranged inside the dielectric film and supplied with power for chucking and holding the sample onto the dielectric film, and when the sample is mounted on the sample stage, the sample is kept mounted on the sample stage until a sample temperature becomes a predetermined temperature or until a predetermined time elapses, and power is then supplied to the electrodes to chuck the sample to the sample stage and then start processing on the sample using the plasma.