Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Tuner, microwave plasma source and impedance matching method
- Patent Title (中): 调谐器,微波等离子体源和阻抗匹配方法
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Application No.: US15073762Application Date: 2016-03-18
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Publication No.: US09520273B2Publication Date: 2016-12-13
- Inventor: Yuki Osada , Hiroyuki Miyashita
- Applicant: Tokyo Electron Limited
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
- Current Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Pearne & Gordon LLP
- Priority: JP2015-057528 20150320
- Main IPC: C23F1/00
- IPC: C23F1/00 ; H01J37/32

Abstract:
A tuner (43) includes a microwave transmission path (51), having a coaxial structure, configured to transmit a supplied microwave to a planar slot antenna (101); slugs (61a) and (61b made of a dielectric material and configured to be moved along the microwave transmission path (51); a slug driving unit (70) configured to move the slugs (61a) and (61b) along the microwave transmission path (51); and a control unit (80) configured to perform impedance matching by controlling positions of the slugs such that they are located at a matching position where a reflection coefficient is small, and configured to control, based on a state of the plasma, a matching track through which the slugs (61a) and (61b) reach the matching position.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160276139A1 TUNER, MICROWAVE PLASMA SOURCE AND IMPEDANCE MATCHING METHOD Public/Granted day:2016-09-22
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