Patent ID: 6949144
Filing Date: 2005-09-27
Classification: H01J,H01L

Abstract:
1. A low pressure plasma processing apparatus comprising: a carrying arm device operable to hold a film substrate, wherein the carrying arm device is arranged in a plasma processing apparatus main body; a chamber arranged in the plasma processing apparatus main body, to which the film substrate held by the carrying arm device is carried, to which a reaction gas is introduced while the chamber is being evacuated, to which high frequency power is applied under low pressure to generate plasma so that plasma processing is performed to remove organic matter from the film substrate, and from which the film substrate subjected to the plasma processing and held by the carrying arm device is carried out; a moving device arranged in the plasma processing apparatus main body, wherein the moving device is operable to, by drive of the carrying arm device, move the film substrate held by the carrying arm device from a substrate carrying-in position in the plasma processing apparatus main body into the chamber, and move the film substrate from an inside of the chamber to a substrate carrying-out preparation position in the plasma processing apparatus main body; a substrate carrying-in slider operable to hold and carry in the film substrate from a substrate carrying-in preparation position at an outside of the plasma processing apparatus main body into the substrate carrying-in position in the plasma processing apparatus main body; and a substrate carrying-out slider operable to hold and carry out the film substrate subjected to the plasma processing from the substrate carrying-out preparation position at an inside of the plasma processing apparatus main body to a substrate carrying-out position at an outside of the plasma processing apparatus main body.