KR102046084B1 - Substrate processing apparatus - Google Patents
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a substrate processing apparatus, and more particularly, to a substrate processing apparatus for performing a substrate treatment such as etching, deposition on a substrate.
The present invention, the chamber body is opened on the upper side; A chamber main body installed in the opening of the chamber main body and having a closed shape in the processing space; A substrate support part installed on the chamber body to support a substrate; A top plate installed in the opening of the chamber body to form a closed processing space; A diffusion plate disposed below the top plate to diffuse the process gas; An injection plate disposed below the diffusion plate to inject the process gas diffused by the diffusion plate into the processing space; A gas flow path forming unit installed between the top plate and the diffusion plate to induce a gas supplied from a center portion of the top plate to the edge of the diffusion plate and then inject gas between the diffusion plate and the injection plate A substrate processing apparatus is disclosed.
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The present invention relates to a substrate processing apparatus, and more particularly, to a substrate processing apparatus for performing a substrate treatment such as etching, deposition on a substrate.
The substrate treating apparatus refers to an apparatus for performing substrate treatment such as etching or vapor deposition on a substrate.
The substrate treating apparatus may be configured in various ways according to a substrate treating process. For example, the substrate treating apparatus may include a process chamber for forming a closed process space, and a shower installed at an upper side of the process chamber to supply gas for substrate processing in the process space. And a head support portion and a substrate support portion provided in the process chamber to support the substrate to be processed.
The substrate processing apparatus having the above configuration performs a substrate processing process by forming a plasma in the processing space by an electromagnetic field together with supply of gas.
The substrate treating apparatus may be subjected to a cleaning process of removing particles after performing a predetermined number of substrate treating processes.
Here, the cleaning process may be performed by various methods. For example, the cleaning process may be performed on the shower head and the inside of the process chamber by supplying the cleaning gas to the shower head in a dissociated state by using a remote plasma. have.
However, when the cleaning gas is supplied to the shower head part in a dissociated state by using the remote plasma as described above, there is a problem in that the cleaning inside the shower head part is not smoothly performed according to the supply structure.
An object of the present invention is to provide a substrate processing apparatus that can maximize the process efficiency by minimizing the rectangular area of the gas supply when the gas supply to enable a uniform gas supply in order to solve the above problems.
The present invention was created in order to achieve the object of the present invention as described above, the present invention, the chamber body is opened on the upper side; A chamber main body installed at an opening of the chamber main body and having a closed processing space in a shape thereof; A substrate support part installed on the chamber body to support a substrate; A top plate installed in the opening of the chamber body to form a closed processing space; A diffusion plate disposed below the top plate to diffuse the process gas; An injection plate disposed below the diffusion plate to inject the process gas diffused by the diffusion plate into the processing space; A gas flow path forming unit installed between the top plate and the diffusion plate to induce a gas supplied from a center portion of the top plate to the edge of the diffusion plate and then inject gas between the diffusion plate and the injection plate A substrate processing apparatus is disclosed.
The gas flow path forming unit is coupled to a bottom surface of the top plate and receives a gas from a central portion of the top plate, and is coupled to a bottom surface of the top plate and is connected to an edge of the diffusion plate from the center flow path forming unit. Coupled to each branch flow path forming portion at the edge of the diffusion plate to inject gas between the diffusion plate and the injection plate through a plurality of branch flow path forming parts for inducing gas and a first communication hole formed in the diffusion plate. It may include a plurality of first gas connecting pipes.
The plurality of branches may be coupled to the bottom surface of the top plate to correspond to the through holes formed through the top plate and to transfer the gas supplied through the through holes to each of the plurality of branch flow channel forming parts. And a central flow path forming member corresponding to each of the flow path forming parts, in which a plurality of flow path connecting parts are formed, wherein the branch flow path forming part is coupled to each of the plurality of flow path connecting parts and coupled to a bottom surface of the top plate, and is vertical in the longitudinal direction. The cross section may include a flow path forming member having a 'U' shape.
The central flow path forming unit is coupled to the bottom surface of the top plate and supplied through the through hole to cover the center flow path formed in the bottom of the top plate to correspond to the through hole formed through the top plate. And a central flow path forming member for transmitting to each of the plurality of branch flow path forming parts, wherein the central flow path forming groove has a plurality of flow path connecting parts corresponding to each of the plurality of branch flow path forming parts. At least one cover connected to each of the plurality of flow path connecting portions and coupled to the bottom surface of the top plate to cover a plurality of branch flow path forming grooves having a vertical vertical cross section formed in a 'U' shape on a bottom surface of the top plate; It may include a member.
The plurality of first gas connection pipes may be installed so that the moving distance of the gas from the through hole to each of the first communication holes is the same.
The plurality of branch flow channel forming parts may be coupled to two or more sub branch flow channel forming parts to branch into two or more sub branch flow paths at an end thereof, and the first gas connecting pipe may be coupled to each of the sub branch flow channel forming parts. Can be.
The diffusion plate corresponds to the central flow path forming part, and a plurality of second communication holes are formed, and the gas flow path forming part injects gas between the diffusion plate and the injection plate through the second communication hole formed in the diffusion plate. It may include a plurality of second gas connecting pipes connecting the central flow path forming portion and the second communication hole.
The top plate may have a rectangular planar shape, and the plurality of branch flow path forming parts may be provided at eight points corresponding to the center of the vertex and the side along the edge of the rectangle.
In the substrate treating apparatus according to the present invention, a gas flow path for injecting gas into an injection plate by inducing gas from the shower head having the top plate, the diffusion plate, and the diffusion plate sequentially disposed between the top plate and the diffusion plate to the edge of the diffusion plate. By further including the forming unit, the gas is smoothly injected to the edge of the injection plate, in particular, the injection plate is possible to uniformly spray the gas there is an advantage that can effectively perform the substrate treatment.
In particular, the substrate processing apparatus according to the present invention, a gas for injecting the gas to the injection plate to guide the gas from the shower head having the top plate, the diffusion plate and the diffusion plate sequentially arranged between the top plate and the diffusion plate to the edge of the diffusion plate By additionally including a flow path forming unit, the gas is induced to the edge of the diffusion plate to enable uniform gas supply to the edge portion that is vulnerable to uniformity, and thus there is an advantage that the substrate processing can be performed uniformly.
Furthermore, the substrate treating apparatus according to the present invention has the advantage that the cleaning gas dissociated by the remote plasma can be smoothly sprayed to the edge of the spraying plate in the dissociated state to effectively clean the diffusion plate and the chamber body. have.
In addition, in the substrate treating apparatus according to the present invention, the cleaning gas dissociated by the remote plasma is smoothly sprayed to the edge of the injection plate in the dissociated state to increase the cleaning efficiency and the cleaning time by effectively performing the cleaning to the edge of the diffusion plate. By reducing the overall process time has the advantage that can maximize the process efficiency.
1 is a cross-sectional view showing a substrate processing apparatus according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a bottom view illustrating a bottom surface of a top plate in the substrate processing apparatus of FIG. 1.
3 is a cross-sectional view showing a substrate processing apparatus having a deformed cleaning gas flow forming unit as the substrate processing apparatus according to the present invention.
4 is a bottom view illustrating the bottom of the top plate in the substrate processing apparatus of FIG. 3.
Hereinafter, a substrate processing apparatus according to the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. 1 is a sectional view taken along the line I-I in FIG. 2, and FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken along the IV-IV direction in FIG.
Substrate processing apparatus according to the present invention, as shown in Figures 1 to 4, the
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In addition, the
On the other hand, the
As an example of the power supply method, a configuration except for the substrate support 130 described later, that is, the
The substrate support part 130 is provided in the
For example, the substrate support 130 may be fixedly installed in the
In addition, the substrate support 130 may be configured in various ways such that an electrostatic chuck (not shown) for fixing and fixing the
In addition, the substrate support 130 may be provided with a plurality of lift pins for raising and lowering the
The
On the other hand, the
In addition, the
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For example, the
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The second
The
For example, the
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Herein, when the gas is a cleaning gas, the
The central flow
In detail, the central flow
More specifically, as an example, the central flow
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Meanwhile, the central flow
In this case, a
On the other hand, the upper surface of the central flow
In particular, the
In addition, an inner circumferential surface of the through
As described above, when the protruding
Meanwhile, as illustrated in FIG. 1 or 3, the maximum size D2 of the bottom of the
The plurality of branch flow
In detail, the plurality of branch flow
More specifically, as an example, the plurality of branch flow
In addition, the plurality of branch flow
As another example, the plurality of branch flow
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At this time, the bottom surface of the
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In addition, the gas, such as the cleaning gas supplied to the gas flow
As described above, the cleaning gas is dissociated while passing through the remote plasma 250 before being supplied to the gas flow
The cleaning gas may be a cleaning gas such as NF 3 .
Since the above has been described only with respect to some of the preferred embodiments that can be implemented by the present invention, the scope of the present invention, as is well known, should not be construed as limited to the above embodiments, the present invention described above It will be said that both the technical idea and the technical idea which together with the base are included in the scope of the present invention.
110: chamber body 120: top plate
210: diffusion plate 220: injection plate
300: cleaning gas flow path forming unit
310: central channel forming unit 320: branch channel forming unit
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A substrate support part installed on the chamber body to support a substrate;
A top plate installed in the opening of the chamber body to form a closed processing space;
A diffusion plate disposed below the top plate to diffuse the process gas;
An injection plate disposed below the diffusion plate to inject the process gas diffused by the diffusion plate into the processing space;
A gas flow path forming unit installed between the top plate and the diffusion plate to induce a gas supplied from a central portion of the top plate to the edge of the diffusion plate and then inject gas between the diffusion plate and the injection plate ,
The diffusion plate,
Installed at intervals from the bottom of the gas flow path forming portion to form a first communication space (DS) independent of the gas flow path forming portion,
Gas supplied from the central portion of the top plate is directly injected between the diffusion plate and the injection plate through the gas flow path forming unit,
And a gas supplied through the top plate is injected between the diffusion plate and the injection plate after diffusion in the first communication space (DS).
The gas flow path forming unit,
A central flow path forming unit coupled to a bottom surface of the top plate and receiving gas from a central portion of the top plate;
A plurality of branch flow channel forming portions coupled to a bottom surface of the top plate to guide gas from the central flow channel forming portion to an edge of the diffusion plate;
And a plurality of first gas connection pipes coupled to each branch flow path forming portion at an edge of the diffusion plate to inject gas between the diffusion plate and the injection plate through the first communication hole formed in the diffusion plate. Substrate processing apparatus to be.
The plurality of branches may be coupled to the bottom surface of the top plate to correspond to the through holes formed through the top plate and to transfer the gas supplied through the through holes to each of the plurality of branch flow channel forming parts. A central flow path forming member having a plurality of flow path connecting parts formed to correspond to each of the flow path forming parts;
The branch flow path forming unit may include a branch flow path forming member coupled to each of the plurality of flow path connecting parts, coupled to a bottom surface of the top plate, and having a vertical U-shaped vertical cross section in a longitudinal direction. Device.
The central flow path forming unit is coupled to the bottom surface of the top plate and supplied through the through hole to cover the center flow path formed in the bottom of the top plate to correspond to the through hole formed through the top plate. It includes a central flow path forming member for transmitting to each of the plurality of branch flow path forming portion,
The central flow path forming groove has a plurality of flow path connecting parts corresponding to each of the plurality of branch flow path forming parts.
The branch flow path forming part may be connected to each of the plurality of flow path connecting parts, and the bottom surface of the top plate may cover a plurality of branch flow path forming grooves having a vertical vertical section in a longitudinal direction on a bottom surface of the top plate in a U shape. Substrate processing apparatus comprising at least one cover member to be coupled.
And the plurality of first gas connection pipes are installed such that the moving distance of the gas from the through hole to each of the first communication holes is the same.
The plurality of branching channel forming units, the two or more sub-branching channel forming units are combined to branch into two or more sub-branch channel at the end,
The first gas connection pipe, substrate processing apparatus, characterized in that coupled to each of the sub-branch flow path forming portion.
The diffusion plate has a plurality of second communication holes formed corresponding to the central flow path forming portion,
The gas flow path forming unit may include a plurality of second gas connection pipes connecting the central flow path forming unit and the second communication hole to inject gas between the diffusion plate and the injection plate through the second communication hole formed in the diffusion plate. Substrate processing apparatus comprising a.
The top plate may have a rectangular planar shape, and the plurality of branch flow path forming parts may be provided at eight points corresponding to the center of the vertex and the side along the edge of the rectangle.
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