Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100087068 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - In a dry cleaning process, breakage of a gas supply pipe can be prevented, and maintenance efficiency can be increased. There is provided a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, the method including: loading a substrate into a process chamber; forming a silicon film or a silicon compound film on the substrate loaded in the process chamber by supplying a raw-material gas to a gas supply pipe disposed in the process chamber to introduce the raw-material gas into the process chamber; unloading the substrate from the process chamber; heating an inside of the process chamber; decreasing an inside temperature of the process chamber after the heating of the inside of the process chamber; and introducing cleaning gas into the process chamber by supplying the cleaning gas to the gas supply pipe after the decreasing of the inside temperature of the process chamber. | 04-08-2010 |
20100154711 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS - Films are formed on a plurality of substrates through a batch process while preventing formation of films on the rear surfaces of the substrates. For this, a substrate processing apparatus comprises a reaction vessel, supports, a support holder, and an induction heating device. The reaction vessel is configured to process substrates therein. The supports are made of a conductive material and having a disk shape, and each of the supports is configured to accommodate a substrate in its concave part in a state where the substrate is horizontally positioned with a top surface of the substrate being exposed. The concave part is formed concentrically with a circumference of the support, and a difference between radii of the support and the concave part is greater than a distance between neighboring two of the supports held by the support holder. The support holder is configured to hold at least the supports horizontally in multiple stages. The induction heating device is configured to heat at least the supports held by the support holder inside the reaction vessel by using an induction heating method. | 06-24-2010 |
20100229795 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS - Provided is a substrate processing apparatus that can suppress formation of an Si thin film on the inner wall of a film-forming gas supply nozzle. The substrate processing apparatus comprises a process chamber configured to process a substrate, a heating member configured to heat the substrate, a coating gas supply member including a coating gas supply nozzle configured to supply coating gas into the process chamber, a film-forming gas supply member including a film-forming gas supply nozzle supplying film-forming gas into the process chamber, and a control unit configured to control the heating member, the coating gas supply member, and the film-forming gas supply member. The control unit executes a control such that the coating gas supply nozzle supplies the coating gas to coat a quartz member in the process chamber and the film-forming gas supply nozzle supplies the film-forming gas to form an epitaxial film on the substrate. | 09-16-2010 |
20110226418 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - In a dry cleaning process, breakage of a gas supply pipe can be prevented, and maintenance efficiency can be increased. There is provided a substrate processing apparatus comprising: a process chamber configured to process a substrate; a heater configured to heat an inside of the process chamber; a gas supply pipe installed in the process chamber; a gas supply system configured to supply at least a cleaning gas to the gas supply pipe to introduce the cleaning gas into the process chamber; and a control unit configured to control the heater and gas supply system with the substrate unloaded from the process chamber to perform heating an inside of the process chamber to generate a crack in a thin film formed inside the process chamber; decreasing an inside temperature of the process chamber after the crack is generated in the thin film; and introducing the cleaning gas into the process chamber by supplying the cleaning gas to the gas supply pipe after the inside temperature of the process chamber is decreased. | 09-22-2011 |
20120009764 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS - A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes conveying a first substrate provided with an opposing surface having insulator regions and a semiconductor region exposed between the insulator regions and a second substrate provided with an insulator surface exposed toward the opposing surface of the first substrate, into a process chamber in a state that the second substrate is arranged in to face the opposing surface of the first substrate, and selectively forming a silicon-containing film with a flat surface at least on the semiconductor region of the opposing surface of the first substrate by heating an inside of the process chamber and supplying at least a silicon-containing gas and a chlorine-containing gas into the process chamber. | 01-12-2012 |
20130137272 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS - A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, includes supplying a first etching gas and a second etching gas having a decomposition rate lower than that of the first etching gas from one end of a substrate accommodating region in a process chamber where a plurality of substrates are stacked while exhausting an inside of a process chamber from other end of the substrate accommodating region; and etching a first portion of the plurality of substrate at the one end of the substrate accommodating region using a portion of radicals generated from the first etching gas and second etching gas, and etching a second portion of the plurality of substrates at the other end of the substrate accommodating region using at least a portion of a remaining radicals of the radicals generated from the first etching gas and second etching gas. | 05-30-2013 |
20130344689 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING SUBSTRATE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS - A method for processing a substrate having an insulating film in at least a portion of a surface thereof, a source portion, a drain portion, and a gate portion thereon, and a monocrystalline silicon-based structure in a gate channel disposed under the gate portion. The method for processing a substrate includes: growing amorphous doped silicon and monocrystalline doped silicon by supplying at least silicon-containing gas and doping gas; and monocrystallizing the amorphous doped silicon by using the monocrystalline doped silicon as a seed by heating the amorphous doped silicon and the monocrystalline doped silicon. | 12-26-2013 |
20150064908 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR PROCESSING SUBSTRATE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - Provided is a substrate processing apparatus, including: a first gas supply system to supply raw material gas of a film being deposited in at least a portion of the surface of the substrate, and first etching gas which removes the deposited film, from a first gas supply nozzle to the processing chamber; a second gas supply system to supply second etching gas, which removes the deposited film, from a second gas supply nozzle to the processing chamber; and a control device to control the first and second gas supply systems such that the raw material gas is supplied from the first gas supply nozzle and the second etching gas is supplied from the second gas supply nozzle while the substrate is in the processing chamber, and the first etching gas is supplied from the first gas supply nozzle while the substrate is not in the processing chamber. | 03-05-2015 |