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/Plasma Processing Apparatus And Impedance Matching Method
Abstract

A plasma processing apparatus includes a chamber, a substrate support in the chamber and including a lower electrode, an upper electrode above the substrate support, a source radio-frequency generator that provides a source radio-frequency signal to the upper or lower electrode to generate a plasma in the chamber, an impedance matcher electrically coupled to a transmission line between the source radio-frequency generator and the upper or lower electrode and including a first low-speed matching circuit and a first high-speed matching circuit coupled in parallel, a bias generator that provides a bias signal to the lower electrode, and a controller that causes the first low-speed matching circuit to perform a low-speed matching operation on the source radio-frequency signal in a first period and causes the first high-speed matching circuit to perform a high-speed matching operation on the source radio-frequency signal in a second period following the first period.

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What is claimed is:

A plasma processing apparatus includes a chamber, a substrate support in the chamber and including a lower electrode, an upper electrode above the substrate support, a source radio-frequency generator that provides a source radio-frequency signal to the upper or lower electrode to generate a plasma in the chamber, an impedance matcher electrically coupled to a transmission line between the source radio-frequency generator and the upper or lower electrode and including a first low-speed matching circuit and a first high-speed matching circuit coupled in parallel, a bias generator that provides a bias signal to the lower electrode, and a controller that causes the first low-speed matching circuit to perform a low-speed matching operation on the source radio-frequency signal in a first period and causes the first high-speed matching circuit to perform a high-speed matching operation on the source radio-frequency signal in a second period following the first period.
Timeline
Filed
02/17/2026
Published
06/25/2026
Granted
Not Available
IPC Codes(2)
H03H 7/38:Impedance-matching networks
H01J 37/32:Gas-filled discharge tubes (heating by discharge H05B)