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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2018

Filed:

Jun. 01, 2015
Applicant:

Hitachi High-technologies Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Masahito Mori, Tokorozawa, JP;

Naoyuki Kofuji, Tama, JP;

Naoshi Itabashi, Hachioji, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C23F 1/00 (2006.01); H01J 37/32 (2006.01); C23F 4/00 (2006.01); H01L 21/311 (2006.01); H01L 21/3213 (2006.01); H01L 29/51 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 37/32798 (2013.01); C23F 4/00 (2013.01); H01J 37/32009 (2013.01); H01J 37/32706 (2013.01); H01L 21/31116 (2013.01); H01L 21/31138 (2013.01); H01L 21/32136 (2013.01); H01L 21/32137 (2013.01); H01J 37/32183 (2013.01); H01L 29/517 (2013.01);
Abstract

The invention provides a plasma processing apparatus and a dry etching method for etching a multilayered film structure having steps with high accuracy. The plasma processing apparatus comprises a vacuum reactor, a lower electrode placed within a processing chamber of the vacuum reactor and having a wafer to be etched mounted on the upper surface thereof, bias supplying units and for supplying high frequency power for forming a bias potential to the lower electrode, a gas supply means for feeding reactive gas into the processing chamber, an electric field supplying means through for supplying a magnetic field for generating plasma in the processing chamber, and a control unit for controlling the distribution of ion energy in the plasma being incident on the wafer via the high frequency power.


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