Patent ID: 8642487

Claim:
A film deposition method comprising: a step of carrying a substrate into a vacuum chamber, and placing the substrate on a turntable that is rotatably provided in the vacuum chamber; a step of rotating the turntable; and an adsorption-formation-irradiation step of supplying a first reaction gas to the substrate from a first reaction gas supply part so as to adsorb the first reaction gas on the substrate; supplying a second reaction gas that is reactive with the first reaction gas to the substrate from a second reaction gas supply part so that the first reaction gas adsorbed on the substrate reacts with the second reaction gas so as to form a reaction product on the substrate; and supplying a hydrogen containing gas from a gas introduction nozzle to a plasma generation part that is separated from the first reaction gas supply part and the second reaction gas supply part in a circumferential direction of the turntable so as to generate plasma above the turntable and to irradiate the plasma to the reaction product, wherein the plasma generation part is located above the gas introduction nozzle so that the gas introduction nozzle is located between the plasma generation part and the turntable.