Plasma producing method and apparatus as well as plasma processing apparatus

摘要

Plasma producing method and apparatus as well as plasma processing apparatus utilizing the plasma producing apparatus wherein a plurality of high-frequency antennas are arranged in a plasma producing chamber, and a high-frequency power supplied from a high-frequency power supply device (including a power source, a matching box and the like) is applied to a gas in the chamber from the antennas to produce inductively coupled plasma. At least some of the plurality of high-frequency antennas are arranged in a fashion of such parallel arrangement that the antennas successively neighbor to each other and each of the antennas is opposed to the neighboring antenna. The high-frequency power supply device supplies the high-frequency power to each antenna from terminals of the antennas on the same side.