A FILM DEPOSITING APPARATUS AND METHOD

摘要

A film depositing apparatus comprises: a vacuum vessel; an evacuating unit for evacuating the interior of the vacuum vessel; a gas supply source for supplying the vacuum vessel with gases necessary for film deposition; a backing plate that is placed within the vacuum vessel for holding a target formed by sintering; a substrate holder for holding a deposition substrate within the vacuum vessel in a face-to-face relation with the backing plate; and a power supply unit for supplying electric power between the backing plate and the substrate holder to generate a plasma within the vacuum vessel, wherein the backing plate has a smaller thermal expansion coefficient than that of the target which has a sinter density of at least 95%, the sinter density representing the ratio of the actual weight of a sintered form of the target to its theoretical weight.