Preparation of Large Area Plasma Source by Helical Resonator Arrays

Helical Resonator 배열을 통한 대면적 고밀도 Plasma Source

  • 손민영 (인하대학교 반도체 및 박막기술 연구소) ;
  • 김진우 (인하대학교 반도체 및 박막기술 연구소) ;
  • 박세근 (인하대학교 반도체 및 박막기술 연구소) ;
  • 오범환 (인하대학교 반도체 및 박막기술 연구소)
  • Published : 2000.06.01

Abstract

Four helical resonators are distributed in a 2 ${\times}$ 2 array by modifying upper part of the conventional reactive ion etching(RIE) type LCD etcher in order to prepare a large area plasma source. Since the resonance condition of the RF signal to the helical antenna, one RF power supply is used for delivering the power efficiently to all four helical resonators without an impedance matching network Previous work of 2 ${\times}$ 2array inductively coupled plasma(ICP)requires one matching circuit to each ICP antenna for more efficient power deliverly Distributions of ion density and electron temperature are measured in terms of chamber pressure, gas flow rate and RF power . By adjusting the power distribution among the four helical resonator units, argon plasma density of higher than 10$\^$17/㎥ with the uniformity of better than 7% can be obtained in the 620 ${\times}$ 620$\textrm{mm}^2$ chamber.

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