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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2013
Tokyo Electron Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Ryota Goto, Nirasaki, JP;
Rintaro Takao, Oshu, JP;
TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method of cleaning a thin film forming apparatus wherein a process for supplying a film forming gas into a reaction tube of the thin film forming apparatus to form a thin film on an object to be processed is repeated more than one time and then a cleaning gas is supplied into the reaction tube to remove extraneous particles attached to an interior of the apparatus, the method comprising: a first cleaning process including supplying a first cleaning gas into the reaction tube to remove the extraneous particles attached to the interior of the apparatus when a first cleaning start conditions is satisfied; and a second cleaning process including performing a cleaning process that is different from the first cleaning process when a second cleaning start condition that is different from the first cleaning start condition is satisfied.
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