Patent ID: 8251012

Claim:
A substrate processing apparatus, comprising: a processing container having a substantially cylindrical shape; a gas supply section to supply a desired processing gas to the processing container; a gas exhaust section to exhaust a surplus of the processing gas from the processing container; a substrate placing member to place a plurality of substrates thereon in a stacked state and in horizontal attitudes thereof in the processing container; a substrate placing member rotating mechanism to rotate the substrate placing member; and an electrode, to which high frequency electric power is applied, to generate plasma for exciting the processing gas, the electrode being arranged at a position different from the gas exhaust section when viewed from above of the processing container, the electrode including two thin and long linear sections disposed in parallel and a short-circuit section to electrically short-circuit one ends of the linear sections, and the linear sections being provided at a portion of an inner face of the processing container and extending beside the substrate placing member in a substantially vertical direction.