Patent ID: 8480804

Claim:
A thin film formation apparatus, comprising: a heater having a movable heated surface for carrying a deposition material in a non-vapor state to be deposited on a deposition surface; a supplier which vaporizes the deposition material so as to supply the vaporized deposition material to the movable heated surface so as to be carried in the non-vapor state; a support body which maintains a substrate with the deposition surface, the support body exposed between a pair of shielding plates configured to restrain the deposition material vaporized by the supplier from directly reaching the deposition surface; wherein the heater is configured to deposit the carried deposition material on the deposition surface of the support body by heating and vaporizing the carried deposition material; and a curing device which cures the deposition material on the deposition surface, wherein the deposition material is supplied in an atomized or vaporized state at a position of the movable heated surface where atomized or vaporized deposition material from a point at which the deposition material is supplied to the movable heated surface does not linearly reach the deposition surface, and the supplier comprises at least one of an ultrasonic atomizing device, a mechanical atomizing device; and an evaporating device.