Detecting method and detecting device of gas components and processing apparatus using detecting device of gas components
Provided is a detecting device of gas components that includes a gas component detecting unit for detection of a light emission of plasma that is formed by re-excitation downstream of an arrangement position of an object to be processed. The gas component detecting unit includes an introduced gas supply portion that supplies an introduced gas, a nozzle portion that is provided with a hole through which the introduced gas that is supplied from the introduced gas supply portion passes through and an opening through which a part of a gas to be analyzed flowing through an exhaust pipe portion is introduced into an inside of the hole, the opening being provided in an intermediate portion of the hole, a discharge electrode portion that generates plasma inside the nozzle portion by causing the gas to be analyzed that is introduced from the opening into an inside of the nozzle portion and the introduced gas that is supplied into the inside of the hole to discharge, and a light emission detecting unit that detects a light emission of the plasma generated inside the nozzle portion by the discharge electrode portion.
1. A detecting method of gas components for detecting, using a detecting device of gas components, components of a gas to be analyzed that is exhausted from a processing apparatus and flows through an exhaust pipe portion, wherein the detecting device of gas components includes a nozzle portion, a hole that passes through the nozzle portion, a light emission detecting unit disposed at an opposite end portion of the hole with respect to one end of the hole in the nozzle portion, and an introduced gas supply portion disposed between the light emission detecting unit and the nozzle portion, the detecting method of gas components comprising:
introducing an introduced gas, into an inside of the hole that passes through the nozzle portion of the detecting device of gas components, from the introduced gas supply portion of the detecting device of gas components;
introducing a part of the gas to be analyzed that flows through the exhaust pipe portion into the inside of the hole from an opening provided in an intermediate portion of the hole between said one end of the hole in the nozzle portion and the introduced gas supply portion;
generating a plasma, using the gas to be analyzed and the introduced gas, by a discharge electrode of the detecting device of gas components discharging in a region including a section where the gas to be analyzed is introduced from the opening and the inside of the hole of the nozzle portion;
detecting a light emission of the generated plasma passing through the hole of the nozzle portion by the light emission detecting unit of the detecting device of gas components; and
detecting the components of the gas to be analyzed based on information of the light emission of the plasma that is detected by the light emission detecting unit.
2. The detecting method of gas components according to claim 1 , wherein
the light emission detecting unit detects the light emission of the plasma generated inside the nozzle portion via a light collection port through which light transmits.
3. The detecting method of gas components according to claim 2 , wherein
the introduced gas supply portion supplies the introduced gas from a space between the opening and the light collection port into the inside of the nozzle portion.
4. The detecting method of gas components according to claim 2 , wherein
an orifice is formed at a narrow portion between a side where the light collection port is provided and the opening in the hole of the nozzle portion, and the introduced gas supplied from the introduced gas supply portion is supplied through the orifice to a side where the opening is formed.
5. The detecting method of gas components according to claim 1 , wherein
an exhaust pump exhausts the gas to be analyzed from the exhaust pipe portion and the part of the gas to be analyzed is introduced from the opening that is formed in the nozzle portion into the inside of the hole.