Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Plasma processing apparatus and operating method of plasma processing apparatus
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Application No.: US15277272Application Date: 2016-09-27
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Publication No.: US09934946B2Publication Date: 2018-04-03
- Inventor: Yohei Kawaguchi , Tatehito Usui , Masahito Togami , Satomi Inoue , Shigeru Nakamoto
- Applicant: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
- Current Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Mattingly & Malur, PC
- Priority: JP2015-245786 20151217
- Main IPC: G01B11/06
- IPC: G01B11/06 ; H01L21/3065 ; H01L21/66 ; G01N21/84 ; H01J37/32

Abstract:
A plasma processing device performing etching processing to a sample disposed in a processing chamber disposed in a vacuum vessel by using plasma formed in the processing chamber includes a light detector, a component detector, and a determination unit. The light detector detects light intensity of a plurality of wavelengths from the inside of the processing chamber at a plurality of times during the sample processing. The component detector detects, by using a result of a principal component analysis of time-series data, a highly correlated component between the time-series data of a plurality of the wavelengths at a certain time in a plurality of the times obtained from output of the light detector. The determination unit determines an amount or an end point of the etching processing based on a change in light intensity of at least one of a plurality of the wavelengths detected by using the time-series data from which the highly correlated component is removed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170178874A1 PLASMA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND OPERATING METHOD OF PLASMA PROCESSING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2017-06-22
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