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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent particles generated by epitaxial growth reaction from falling in association with opening or closing operation of a cover of a chamber. SOLUTION: The chemical vapor deposition apparatus includes a substrate ceiling defining a reaction chamber into which a reaction gas is supplied and in which a substrate is epitaxially grown, and an exhaust separatable from the substrate ceiling and from which an exhaust gas after the epitaxial growth reaction is discharged. The exhaust is provided with a particle formation part on which particles generated upon the epitaxial growth of the substrate are deposited. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a material gas concentration controller capable of keeping the concentration of a material gas in a mixed gas constant even if the partial pressure of the material gas is varied, having high responsiveness and capable of controlling a concentration by being easily attached to a bubbling system. SOLUTION: The material gas concentration controller is used for a material gasifying system 1 including a tank 13 for housing a material L, a lead-in pipe 11 for leading a carrier gas for gasifying the housed material into the tank, and a lead-out pipe 12 for leading the mixed gas of the material gas in which the material gas is gasified and the carrier gas from the tank 13. The controller includes a base B connected to the lead-out pipe 12 and having an internal flow path B1 for making the mixed gas flow, a concentration measurement section CS for measuring the concentration of the material gas in the mixed gas flowing through the internal flow path B1, and a first valve 23 provided in the downstream from the concentration measurement section CS in the internal flow path B1 and adjusting the measurement concentration measured by the concentration measurement section CS. The concentration measurement section CS and the first valve 23 are attached to the base B. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent back diffusion of a processing gas, which is discharged from a bypass pipe to a gas exhaust system, into a processing chamber without the need of providing a dedicated vacuum pump on the downstream side of the bypass pipe. SOLUTION: A substrate processing apparatus includes: the processing chamber in which a substrate is placed; a gas supply system that supplies the processing gas for processing the substrate from a processing gas source into the processing chamber; the gas exhaust system that discharges the atmosphere in the processing chamber; at least two vacuum pumps provided in series with the gas exhaust system; and the bypass pipe that connects the gas supply system and the gas exhaust system by bypassing the processing chamber. Among the at least two vacuum pumps, a vacuum pump located on the most upstream side of the gas flowing through the gas exhaust system is a mechanical booster pump. The bypass pipe is connected at a location between the mechanical booster pump and a vacuum pump located downstream of the mechanical booster pump. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vapor phase growth apparatus and a vapor phase growth method, for thin films such that a thin film continuously varying in impurity concentration along the thickness and a thin film greatly varying in impurity concentration along the thickness are easily formed by vapor phase growth. SOLUTION: A resistivity distribution of a thin film along the thickness is controlled by introducing a material gas, obtained by a dilute impurity gas obtained by mixing at least an impurity gas and a dilute gas after controlling flow rates thereof by a first flow rate adjusting mechanism 12 and a second flow rate adjusting mechanism 14 respectively with a main gas having its flow rate controlled by a third flow rate adjusting mechanism 16 and then by a fourth flow rate adjusting mechanism 18, into a reaction chamber 22, and carrying out vapor phase growth while supplying the material gas to the reaction chamber 22 while continuously varying the flow rates of the gases flowing through the first, second, and third flow rate adjusting mechanisms simultaneously and continuously under arithmetic control so that the thin film has a desired resistivity profile along the thickness. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an organometallic-compound feeder capable of supplying an organometallic compound which is solid at ordinary temperature, with a stable concentration to raise a use rate of the packed organometallic compound. SOLUTION: The organometallic-compound feeder includes: a holding plate (9) which has been disposed in a lower part of a container (1) and holds an organometallic compound (8) deposited on an inert support and permits carrier gas to pass therethrough; a carrier gas inlet (4) disposed in an upper part of the container; a carrier gas outlet (5) which is open in an area located in a bottom part of the container and under the holding plate; and a baffle (10) which has been attached between the holding plate (9) and the carrier gas outlet (5) and is larger than the aperture of the carrier gas outlet (5). The feeder is configured so that the carrier gas passes downward from above through the organometallic compound packed on the holding plate and deposited on the inert support. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT