Apparatus and method for detecting end point of post treatment

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ABSTRACT:
For use with CVD apparatus, an apparatus and method for detecting the end point of a post treatment after an in-situ cleaning operation is provided such that reactive chemical species which remain after an in-situ cleaning operation can be accurately removed so that they do not cause harm to a film formed after the cleaning operation. The end point detection apparatus includes a reactor, an RF electrode, an RF power supply, a gas supply pipe for forming a thin film, a gas supply pipe for in-situ cleaning, a detector for detecting discharge characteristic values (i.e. the self-bias voltage, the electrode voltage, and the discharge impedance) during the post treatment performed after the in-situ cleaning, and a monitor/determining circuit for monitoring an output from the detector. When a post treatment is performed in the reactor after in-situ cleaning, a gas for in-situ cleaning is introduced through the gas supply pipe, and the reactor is in-situ cleaned using reactive chemical species, after which the post treatment is performed in the reactor so that the remaining reactive chemical species are removed. During the post treatment, the discharge characteristic values are measured, and the point in time at which the changes in the measured values shift to nearly constant values is assumed to be the end point of the post treatment.

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patent: 5326723 (1994-07-01), Petro et al.
G. Bruno, et al. "Study of the NF3 Plasma Cleaning of Reactors for Amorphous Silicon Deposition." May/Jun. 1994, pp. 690-698.

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