Patent ID: 7713354
Filing Date: 2010-05-11
Classification: C23C

Abstract:
1. A film forming system that forms films on substrates held on a substrate holder placed in a reaction vessel by a film forming process specified by a film forming recipe selected from a plurality of different film forming recipes and carries out a purging process by supplying a purging gas into the reaction vessel after the substrates have been unloaded from the reaction vessel, said film forming system comprising: a storage unit storing a plurality of purging recipes respectively specifying different purging processes; managing means for managing a cumulative thickness equal to the sum of thicknesses of thin films formed by cycles of a film forming process specified by each of the film forming recipes; and a purging recipe selecting means for selecting a purging recipe from the plurality of purging recipes on the basis of the cumulative thickness equal to the sum of the thicknesses of thin films formed by a film forming process specified by the selected film forming recipe.