Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Processing system, processing method, and computer program
- Patent Title (中): 处理系统,处理方法和计算机程序
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Application No.: US12073063Application Date: 2008-02-28
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Publication No.: US08055372B2Publication Date: 2011-11-08
- Inventor: Yuki Kataoka , Tatsuya Yamaguchi , Wenling Wang , Yuichi Takenaga
- Applicant: Yuki Kataoka , Tatsuya Yamaguchi , Wenling Wang , Yuichi Takenaga
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
- Current Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP
- Priority: JP2007-054092 20070305
- Main IPC: G06F19/00
- IPC: G06F19/00 ; G05B13/02 ; G05D7/00 ; C23C16/52 ; B05C11/00

Abstract:
The present invention provides a processing system, a processing method and a program, which can readily control a gas flow rate. A vertical-type heating apparatus 1 includes a plurality of gas supply pipes 16 to 20 each adapted for supplying a processing gas into a reaction vessel 2 configured to contain therein semiconductor wafers W. For the gas supply pipes 16 to 20, flow rate control units 21 to 25 are provided, respectively, for controlling each flow rate. In a control unit 50, processing conditions including the flow rate of the processing gas and a film thickness-flow rate-relationship model indicative of a relationship between the flow rate of the processing gas and a film thickness, are stored. The control unit 50 calculates the flow rate of the processing gas based on a process result obtained by processing the semiconductor wafers W under the processing conditions as well as on the film thickness-flow rate-relationship model, so as to process the semiconductor wafers W, while controlling the respective flow rate control units 21 to 25, such that the flow rate of the processing gas will be changed into the calculated flow rate of the processing gas.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090117259A1 Processing system, processing method, and computer program Public/Granted day:2009-05-07
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