IP Library Granted Patent US 11,239,063
Granted Patent B2
US 11,239,063 · App. 16/973,291 · Granted Feb 1, 2022

Vacuum processing apparatus

Inventor: Yoshinori Fujii (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: ULVAC, INC.
H01J37/32724C23C14/35C23C14/50C23C14/541H01J2237/2007H01J2237/332
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Patent No.
US 11,239,063
App. No.
16/973,291
Granted
Feb 1, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A magnet unit for a magnetron sputtering apparatus is disposed above the target has: a yoke made of magnetic material and is disposed to lie opposite to the target; and plural pieces of magnets disposed on a lower surface of the yoke, wherein a leakage magnetic field in which a line passing through a position where the vertical component of the magnetic field becomes zero is closed in an endless manner, is caused to locally act on such a lower space of the target as is positioned between the center of the target and a periphery thereof, the magnet unit being driven for rotation about the center of the target. In a predetermined position of the yoke there is formed a recessed groove in a circumferentially elongated manner along an imaginary circle with the center of the target serving as a center.

Claims (10)

1. A vacuum processing apparatus, comprising;

a vacuum chamber capable of forming therein a vacuum atmosphere, and a stage inside the vacuum chamber, the stage being adapted to dispose thereon a to-be-processed substrate,

the stage having a base and a hot plate disposed on the base so as to enable to heat the to-be-processed substrate; and

a platen ring and a deposition preventing plate both being made of metal and surrounding the hot plate with a predetermined clearance therebetween,

wherein a first surface portion of the platen ring, the first surface portion lying opposite to the hot plate is made up of a low-emissivity layer having a lowered emissivity as a result of a surface treatment to a parent metal of the platen ring,

wherein the deposition preventing plate has a portion which lies opposite to the platen ring while keeping a clearance to the platen ring, and

wherein a second surface portion of the platen ring, the second surface portion lying opposite to the deposition preventing plate, is made up of a high-emissivity layer having an emissivity higher than that of the low-emissivity layer.

2. The vacuum processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein a surface of the portion of the deposition preventing plate, the surface lying opposite to the platen ring, has an emissivity equivalent to that of the low-emissivity layer of the platen ring.

3. The vacuum processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the emissivity of the low-emissivity layer is below 0.3.

4. The vacuum processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the emissivity of the high-emissivity layer is above 0.5.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 8, 2020
From: FUJII, YOSHINORI
To: ULVAC, INC.
Reel/Frame 054579/0880 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2018-204377 · Oct 30, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20210249237A1 · Aug 12, 2021
Cited By (1)
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