Patent ID: 8017525
Filing Date: 2011-09-13
Classification: H01L

Abstract:
1. A processing method employing a processing apparatus, which includes a transfer chamber, a processing chamber coupled to the transfer chamber, to process therein a target substrate, and an electrostatic chuck provided in the processing chamber to electrostatically adsorb the target substrate thereto, comprising: transferring the target substrate from the transfer chamber into the processing chamber by using a transfer mechanism; placing the target substrate on the electrostatic chuck displaced in the processing chamber; applying a direct current to an electrode embedded in the electrostatic chuck to electrostatically absorb the target substrate to the electrostatic chuck; processing the target substrate in the processing chamber, to thereby obtain a processed substrate; terminating the application of the direct current to the electrostatic chuck; supplying an N irradiating ultraviolet rays to the N transferring the processed substrate into the transfer chamber using the transfer mechanism, wherein the dissociated monatomic nitrogen atoms are produced by applying energy, higher than dissociation energy of N