Plasma processing apparatus and method

摘要

A plasma processing apparatus includes: a processing chamber; a state detector for detecting a state of plasma in the processing chamber; an input unit for inputting process result data of a specimen processed in the plasma processing chamber; and a controller including a prediction equation forming unit for forming a prediction equation of a process result in accordance with plasma state data detected with the state detector for the plasma process simulating a specimen existing state in the processing chamber in a specimen non-placed state and process result data of the specimen input with the input unit and processed by the plasma process in a specimen placed state, and storing the prediction equation, wherein the controller predicts the process result of a succeeding plasma process in accordance with plasma state data newly acquired via the state detector in the specimen non-placed state and the stored prediction equation.