Patent ID: 7488389

Claim:
A film forming apparatus comprising: a film forming chamber; a substrate holder located in said film forming chamber, for holding a substrate on which a structure is to be formed; exhaust means for exhausting an interior of said film forming chamber; aerosol generating means for generating an aerosol by blowing up a raw material powder placed in a container with a gas; introducing means for introducing the aerosol generated by said aerosol generating means into said film forming chamber; at least one nozzle disposed oppositely to said substrate held by said substrate holder in said film forming chamber, for spraying the aerosol introduced via said introducing means toward said substrate; and displacing means for chaotically changing a relative position of said substrate held by said substrate holder and said at least one nozzle, wherein said displacing means includes a control unit that controls the relative position of said substrate and said at least one nozzle so that the relative position is chaotically changed, a first rotating support, and a second rotating support that rotates on the first rotating support, wherein a rotational axis of the first rotating support is parallel to and displaced from a rotational axis of the second rotating support, the control unit controls the rotation of the first support and the second support, and the substrate holder or the at least one nozzle is provided on the second support.