发明名称 Inductively coupled parallel-plate plasma reactor with a conical dome
摘要 <p>A plasma reactor appropriate for fabrication, especially etching, of semiconductor integrated circuits and similar processes in which the chamber has a top comprising a truncated conical dome (130) and, preferably, a counter electrode disposed at the top ofthe conical dome. An RF coil (180) is wrapped around the conical dome to inductively couple RF energy into a plasma within the chamber dome. The dome temperature can be controlled in a number of ways. A heat sink (138) can be attached to the outside rim ofthe dome. A rigid conical thermal control sheath (212) can be fit to the outside of the dome, and any differential thermal expansion between the two is accommodated by the conical geometry, thus assuring good thermal contact. The rigid thermal control sheath can include resistive heating, fluid cooling, or both. Alternatively, a flexible resistive heater (270) can be wrapped around the dome inside the RF coil (262). The resistive heater includes a heater wire wound in a serpentine path that has straight portions overlying and perpendicular to the RF coil but has bends located away from the RF coil. The path prevents the heater wire from shorting the azimuthal electric field induced by the RF coil and also acts as a Faraday shield preventing capacitive coupling from the coil into the chamber plasma. &lt;IMAGE&gt; &lt;IMAGE&gt;</p>
申请公布号 EP0838841(A2) 申请公布日期 1998.04.29
申请号 EP19970307921 申请日期 1997.10.07
申请人 APPLIED MATERIALS, INC. 发明人 SCHNEIDER, GERHARD;SHEL, VIKTOR;NGUYEN, ANDREW;WU, ROBERT W.;YIN, GERALD Z.
分类号 H05H1/46;H01J37/32;H01L21/302;H01L21/3065;(IPC1-7):H01J37/32;C23C16/50 主分类号 H05H1/46
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