Sputtering process and an apparatus for carrying out the same.

摘要

A sputtering process and an apparatus for carrying out the same for forming a film of a film forming material over the surface of a substrate (25). A target (5) formed of the film forming material is held on a sputtering electrode (4) receiving a voltage, and the substrate (25) is disposed at a predetermined distance and opposite to the target (5). A high-density plasma is produced by producing a cusp field between the target (5) and the substrate (25) and a bias voltage is applied to the surface of the substrate (25) to make ions of the high-density plasma fall on the surface of the substrate (25) in order to make the particles of the film forming material sputtered from the target deposit in a thin film over the surface of the substrate (25).