阅读说明：本技术 一种阻挡等离子体反流的分离式进气结构 (Separate type air inlet structure for preventing plasma from reflowing ) 是由 刘海洋 刘小波 胡冬冬 张军 程实然 郭颂 李娜 许开东 于 2020-05-21 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明公开了一种阻挡等离子体反流的分离式进气结构,包括进气法兰、均为陶瓷材质的上部进气喷嘴和下部进气喷嘴；上部进气喷嘴同轴嵌套或同轴叠放在下部进气喷嘴顶部；上部进气喷嘴和下部进气喷嘴中设有呈折线型的进气通道,进气通道包括上轴向通道、径向通道、下轴向通道和出气口；径向通道或下轴向通道位于上部进气喷嘴和下部进气喷嘴的安装配合部位；下轴向通道的顶部指向上部进气喷嘴的底部壁面。本发明舍弃了传统的中心进气导向体,将陶瓷材质的进气喷嘴设置为分离式的两部分,在安装、加工及维修方便的同时,能够有效解决现有技术中等离子体反流,导致的气体在进气通道内放电,烧坏进气导向体的技术问题。(The invention discloses a separated air inlet structure for preventing plasma from reflowing, which comprises an air inlet flange, an upper air inlet nozzle and a lower air inlet nozzle, wherein the upper air inlet nozzle and the lower air inlet nozzle are made of ceramic materials; the upper air inlet nozzle is coaxially nested or coaxially stacked on the top of the lower air inlet nozzle; the upper air inlet nozzle and the lower air inlet nozzle are internally provided with a broken line type air inlet channel, and the air inlet channel comprises an upper axial channel, a radial channel, a lower axial channel and an air outlet; the radial channel or the lower axial channel is positioned at the installation matching part of the upper air inlet nozzle and the lower air inlet nozzle; the top of the lower axial passage is directed toward the bottom wall of the upper air intake nozzle. The invention abandons the traditional central air inlet guide body, and the ceramic air inlet nozzle is arranged into two separated parts, so that the technical problems of air discharge in the air inlet channel and burning of the air inlet guide body caused by plasma backflow in the prior art can be effectively solved while the installation, the processing and the maintenance are convenient.)

1. A separation type air inlet structure for preventing plasma from flowing backwards is characterized in that: comprises an air inlet flange, an upper air inlet nozzle and a lower air inlet nozzle which are made of ceramic materials;

the top of the upper air inlet nozzle extends into the bottom of the air inlet flange; the upper air inlet nozzle is coaxially nested or coaxially stacked on the top of the lower air inlet nozzle; the tops of the upper air inlet nozzle and the lower air inlet nozzle are respectively lapped on the coupling window;

the upper air inlet nozzle and the lower air inlet nozzle are internally provided with a broken-line type air inlet channel, and the air inlet channel comprises an upper axial channel, a radial channel, a lower axial channel and an air outlet;

the top of the upper axial channel is communicated with an air inlet channel in the air inlet flange, and the bottom of the upper axial channel is communicated with the radial channel;

the radial channel or the lower axial channel is positioned at the installation matching part of the upper air inlet nozzle and the lower air inlet nozzle;

the top of the lower axial channel is communicated with the radial channel and points to the bottom wall surface of the upper air inlet nozzle; the bottom of the lower axial channel is communicated with an air outlet, and the air outlet is obliquely directed to the vacuum reaction chamber.

2. A split inlet structure for blocking plasma flood as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the upper air inlet nozzle is coaxially nested at the top of the lower air inlet nozzle;

the bottom edge of the lower air inlet nozzle is provided with a plurality of air outlets along the circumferential direction;

the lower axial channel is provided with a plurality of axial edge grooves and is arranged on the outer wall surface of the bottom of the upper air inlet nozzle which is in nested fit with the lower air inlet nozzle;

the radial channels are radial holes with the same number as the axial edge grooves, all the radial holes are arranged in the middle of the upper air inlet nozzle along the circumferential direction, each radial hole is distributed along the radial direction of the upper air inlet nozzle, and the outer side end of each radial hole is communicated with the top of the corresponding lower axial channel;

the upper axial channel is provided with axial non-through straight holes with the number equal to that of the axial edge grooves, the bottom end of each axial non-through straight hole is communicated with the inner side end of the corresponding radial hole, and the top end of each axial non-through straight hole is communicated with an air inlet channel in the air inlet flange.

3. A split inlet structure for blocking plasma flood as claimed in claim 2, wherein: the lower axial channel is communicated with the air outlet through an air homogenizing channel, and the air homogenizing channel is arranged on the outer wall surface of the lower air inlet nozzle below the lower axial channel.

4. A split inlet structure for blocking plasma flood as claimed in claim 2, wherein: the nesting clearance between the upper air inlet nozzle and the lower air inlet nozzle is larger than 0.1 mm.

5. A split inlet structure for blocking plasma flood as claimed in claim 2, wherein: and the upper air inlet nozzle is respectively connected with the bottom of the air inlet flange and the side wall surface of the coupling window in a sealing way through a sealing ring.

6. A split inlet structure for blocking plasma flood as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the upper air inlet nozzle is coaxially stacked on the top of the lower air inlet nozzle;

an upper axial channel is arranged in the center of the upper air inlet nozzle and is a plurality of axial through holes uniformly distributed along the axial center circumference of the upper air inlet nozzle;

the radial channel is arranged in the center of the top of the lower air inlet nozzle;

the air outlet is arranged at the bottom edge of the lower air inlet nozzle along the circumferential direction;

the lower axial channel comprises axial non-through straight holes with the same number as the air outlets, and all the axial non-through straight holes are arranged in the edge of the lower air inlet nozzle along the circumferential direction and are used for communicating the radial channel with the air outlets.

7. A split inlet structure for blocking plasma flood as claimed in claim 6, wherein: the radial channel is a circular radial air homogenizing channel.

8. A split inlet structure for blocking plasma flood as claimed in claim 6, wherein: and the upper air inlet nozzle is respectively connected with the bottom of the air inlet flange and the side wall surface of the coupling window in a sealing way through a sealing ring.

9. A split inlet structure for blocking plasma flood as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the tops of the upper air inlet nozzle and the lower air inlet nozzle are respectively provided with an overlapping flange which is overlapped on the coupling window; the radial passages are lower in height than the overlapping flanges at the top of the lower inlet nozzle.

Technical Field

The invention relates to the field of semiconductor integrated circuit manufacturing, in particular to a separated gas inlet structure for blocking plasma backflow.

Background

In the semiconductor integrated circuit manufacturing process, etching is one of the most important processes, wherein plasma etching is one of the commonly used etching methods, and etching usually occurs in a vacuum reaction chamber. The vacuum reaction chamber includes an electrostatic chuck for holding the wafer, RF load, and cooling the wafer. At present, in the manufacturing process of semiconductor devices and the like, an electrostatic chuck is usually placed on a base in the middle of a reaction chamber, a wafer is located on the upper surface of the electrostatic chuck, and radio frequency is applied to an electrode on the top of the base, so that reaction gas introduced into the reaction chamber forms plasma to process the wafer.

In the etching process of some non-volatile metal materials, the plasma is accelerated to reach the surface of the metal material under the action of bias voltage, metal particles sputtered from the surface of the etched material can be attached to all exposed surfaces in the cavity, including the inner wall of the cavity and a coupling window at the top of the cavity, so that pollution is caused, in order to solve the pollution, cleaning gas needs to be introduced into the reaction chamber, and radio frequency power is loaded on the top of the reaction chamber to ionize the cleaning gas and take away the pollution particles, because the cavity is grounded and the top coupling window is made of insulating material in the whole cleaning process, therefore, in the cleaning process, the top radio frequency loads the radio frequency power to excite the plasma, the active plasma can clean the grounded cavity, but the cleaning effect on the dielectric window is almost not good, the pollutants are more seriously overlapped along with the time, and the phenomenon that the wafer is polluted by falling off of the sediments occurs.

In order to clean the coupling window thoroughly, an electrostatic shielding piece can be adopted, the Faraday shielding is used in a plasma processing chamber to reduce the erosion of plasma to cavity materials, the prior art is that a middle ceramic air inlet nozzle is connected with a Faraday and is simultaneously connected with radio frequency, and thus, through a cleaning process, the coupling window and the middle ceramic air inlet nozzle can be cleaned thoroughly. However, when the rf power is gradually loaded, the cleaning gas enters the cavity through the inlet channel, and is ionized inside the cavity under the action of the rf power to form a plasma flow, which returns to the inlet channel through the inlet hole, and the inlet channel is too close to the rf power point, resulting in ignition in the inlet channel and damage to the inlet guide body, which is not usable.

As shown in fig. 1, the electrostatic chuck 2 is located at the center of the reaction chamber 1, the wafer 3 is located on the upper surface thereof, the chamber cover 4 is located right above the reaction chamber 1, the coupling window 5 is placed on the chamber cover 4, the center region thereof is empty, and the central air inlet device is installed.

In the prior art, as shown in fig. 2, the central air inlet device includes an air inlet nozzle 50, a central air inlet guide 51 and an air inlet flange 52, wherein the air inlet flange 52 is made of metal and is connected to the upper rf adaptor 8. The structure of the central intake guide 51, as shown in fig. 3, has air guide channels 511,512 and 513, and the air guide channels 511,512 and 513 are an upper vertical hole, a middle radial hole and a lower vertical hole which are communicated with each other in sequence from top to bottom.

The coil 6 is arranged on the upper surface of the coupling window outside the central air inlet device and is also connected to the radio frequency matcher 8.

When the reaction chamber is used for etching process, the circuit of the radio frequency matcher connected to the coil is conducted, the process gas enters through the gas inlet flange 52, reaches the inside of the gas inlet nozzle 50 through the gas guide channels 511,512 and 513 on the central gas inlet guide body 51, and then enters the inside of the reaction chamber through the gas outlet to form plasma, so that the wafer 3 is etched.

When a cleaning process is required, the radio frequency matcher 8 closes the connecting coil 6, opens a passage connected to the gas inlet flange 52, and simultaneously, cleaning gas enters through the gas inlet flange 52 and also enters the reaction chamber along the direction 100, so that ionized cleaning plasma gas flow is formed in the reaction chamber, and the interior and upper region of the reaction chamber are cleaned. However, since the gas inlet flange 52 is connected to the high power cleaning rf, and the gas guide channel 513 on the central gas inlet guide 51 is vertical, the plasma formed inside the reaction chamber returns to the inside of the gas guide channel 513 through the gas outlet at the bottom of the gas inlet nozzle 50, and the gas inlet flange 52 is tightly connected to the upper portion of the central gas inlet guide 51, so that the gas guide channel 513 is in communication with the gas inlet flange 52, the gas is discharged in this region, and high charges are formed inside the gas guide channel 513, thereby burning out the gas inlet guide.

The prior art improves the problem as shown in fig. 4, the gas inlet channels 801 and 802 are transferred to the inside of the central gas inlet guide body 80, the structural design solves the problem of plasma backflow in certain degree, the gas discharges in the gas inlet channels, high charges are formed in the gas inlet channels, and the gas inlet guide body is burnt out. However, this structure has the following disadvantages:

1. the central air inlet guide body is arranged in the air inlet nozzle, and an assembly gap is formed between the outer wall surface of the central air inlet guide body above the air inlet channel 802 and the inner wall surface of the air inlet nozzle; however, plasma reflow gas reflowed through the gas inlet channel 803 passes through the assembly gap to contact the gas inlet flange, thereby discharging electricity in the assembly gap and burning out the central gas inlet guide. Thus, it is desirable that the fit clearance be as small as possible, thereby placing higher processing requirements on the central air intake guide and the air intake nozzle.

2. If plastics are selected for the material of center air inlet guide body, when plasma is palirrhea, especially strong oxidizing property, strong reductive plasma is palirrhea, will lead to center air inlet guide body to expose in strong oxidizing property, strong reductive plasma environment, plastics material itself can be continuous by the erosion, release granule, pollute the reaction chamber to cause the destruction to technology.

3. If the material of the central air inlet guide body is ceramic, the smaller the assembly gap between the central air inlet guide body and the air inlet nozzle is, the better the assembly gap is, however, the ceramic central air inlet guide body can expand in a high-temperature environment, so that the air inlet nozzle is cracked. The concrete expression is as follows: the linear length calculation of the heated alumina ceramic is approximate to the formula L2= L1T sigma, wherein the expansion coefficient is sigma =7E-6/K, T is the temperature, L1 is the normal temperature size, and L2 is the size after heating expansion. Under the environment of 400k, the size of the ceramic with the diameter of 40mm is increased by about 0.1mm after expansion. If the assembly gap between the inlet nozzle and the central inlet guide body is >0.05mm then electrons will directly face the radio frequency through this gap, causing plasma back flow, burning the inlet nozzle. If the assembly gap is <0.05mm, there is a risk of damage to the nozzle by thermal expansion.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to solve the technical problem of the prior art, and provides a separated air inlet structure for preventing plasma from flowing backwards, which abandons the traditional central air inlet guide body and arranges a ceramic air inlet nozzle into two separated parts, so that the separated air inlet structure can effectively solve the technical problems that the plasma flows backwards to cause the discharge of gas in an air inlet channel and form high charges in the air inlet channel to burn out the air inlet guide body in the prior art while being convenient to install, process and maintain.

In order to solve the technical problems, the invention adopts the technical scheme that:

the utility model provides a keep off palirrhea disconnect-type air intake structure of plasma, includes air inlet flange, is ceramic material's upper portion air inlet nozzle and lower part air inlet nozzle.

The top of the upper air inlet nozzle extends into the bottom of the air inlet flange. The upper air inlet nozzle is coaxially nested or coaxially stacked on the top of the lower air inlet nozzle. The tops of the upper air inlet nozzle and the lower air inlet nozzle are respectively lapped on the coupling window.

The upper air inlet nozzle and the lower air inlet nozzle are internally provided with a broken-line type air inlet channel, and the air inlet channel comprises an upper axial channel, a radial channel, a lower axial channel and an air outlet.

The top of the upper axial channel is communicated with an air inlet channel in the air inlet flange, and the bottom of the upper axial channel is communicated with the radial channel.

The radial channel or the lower axial channel is positioned at the installation matching part of the upper air inlet nozzle and the lower air inlet nozzle.

The top of the lower axial channel is communicated with the radial channel and points to the bottom wall surface of the upper air inlet nozzle. The bottom of the lower axial channel is communicated with an air outlet, and the air outlet is obliquely directed to the vacuum reaction chamber.

The upper air inlet nozzle is coaxially nested at the top of the lower air inlet nozzle.

The bottom edge of the lower air inlet nozzle is provided with a plurality of air outlets along the circumferential direction.

The lower axial channel is provided with a plurality of axial edge grooves and is arranged on the outer wall surface of the bottom of the upper air inlet nozzle which is in nested fit with the lower air inlet nozzle. The radial channels are radial holes with the same number as the axial edge grooves, all the radial holes are arranged in the middle of the upper air inlet nozzle along the circumferential direction, each radial hole is distributed along the radial direction of the upper air inlet nozzle, and the outer side end of each radial hole is communicated with the top of the corresponding lower axial channel.

The upper axial channel is provided with axial non-through straight holes with the number equal to that of the axial edge grooves, the bottom end of each axial non-through straight hole is communicated with the inner side end of the corresponding radial hole, and the top end of each axial non-through straight hole is communicated with an air inlet channel in the air inlet flange.

The lower axial channel is communicated with the air outlet through an air homogenizing channel, and the air homogenizing channel is arranged on the outer wall surface of the lower air inlet nozzle below the lower axial channel.

The nesting clearance between the upper air inlet nozzle and the lower air inlet nozzle is larger than 0.1 mm.

And the upper air inlet nozzle is respectively connected with the bottom of the air inlet flange and the side wall surface of the coupling window in a sealing way through a sealing ring.

The upper air inlet nozzle is coaxially stacked on the top of the lower air inlet nozzle.

An upper axial channel is arranged in the center of the upper air inlet nozzle and is a plurality of axial through holes uniformly distributed along the axial center circumference of the upper air inlet nozzle.

The radial channel is arranged in the center of the top of the lower air inlet nozzle,

the air outlet is arranged at the bottom edge of the lower air inlet nozzle along the circumferential direction.

The lower axial channel comprises axial non-through straight holes with the same number as the air outlets, and all the axial non-through straight holes are arranged in the edge of the lower air inlet nozzle along the circumferential direction and are used for communicating the radial channel with the air outlets.

The radial channel is a circular radial air homogenizing channel.

And the upper air inlet nozzle is respectively connected with the bottom of the air inlet flange and the side wall surface of the coupling window in a sealing way through a sealing ring.

The tops of the upper air inlet nozzle and the lower air inlet nozzle are respectively provided with an overlapping flange which is overlapped on the coupling window; the radial passages are lower in height than the overlapping flanges at the top of the lower inlet nozzle.

The invention has the following beneficial effects:

1. the invention abandons the traditional central air inlet guide body, and creatively arranges the ceramic air inlet nozzle into two separated parts: upper portion air inlet nozzle and lower part air inlet nozzle when installation, processing and easy maintenance, can effectively solve among the prior art plasma and flow backward, and the gas that leads to discharges in inlet channel, at the inside high charge that forms of inlet channel, burns out the technical problem of the guide body that admits air.

2. The design of the broken line type air inlet channel in the upper air inlet nozzle and the lower air inlet nozzle can prevent the air inlet channel from being communicated with the radio frequency part in a short distance, and simultaneously prevent the channel distance in the vertical direction from being enough for electronic motion ignition.

3. Because the top of the lower axial channel points to the bottom wall surface of the upper air inlet nozzle, namely a solid block is formed, when plasma airflow in the reaction cavity flows back through the air outlet, the plasma airflow passes through the lower axial channel and impacts the solid wall at the bottom of the upper air inlet nozzle at the upper part of the lower axial channel, electrons gradually disappear along with collision energy, namely, an area closest to an air inlet flange with radio frequency power is insulated and uncharged, and a path communicated with a high-power component cannot be formed, so that the upper air inlet nozzle is protected from being damaged by high heat and high radio frequency. Furthermore, because the upper air inlet nozzle and the lower air inlet nozzle are both made of ceramic materials, the wafer is not eroded by strong oxidizing and reducing plasmas, and therefore the generation of particles and the pollution to the wafer are avoided.

4. Because the air inlet nozzle adopts a separated structure, and meanwhile, the radial channel or the lower axial channel is positioned at the installation matching part of the upper air inlet nozzle and the lower air inlet nozzle; thus, the fit clearance between the upper inlet nozzle and the lower inlet nozzle can be increased, thereby avoiding the upper inlet nozzle from expanding to damage the lower inlet nozzle due to the heat generated during the plasma reverse flow. In addition, the processing requirement on the air inlet nozzle is not high, and the popularization is convenient.

5. The height of the radial channel is lower than that of the lap joint flange at the top of the lower air inlet nozzle, the lap joint flange can seal the air flow of the radial channel, and in addition, when the plasma air flow in the reaction cavity flows back through the air outlet and passes through the lower axial channel, the plasma air flow cannot contact the installation matching part of the upper air inlet nozzle and the lower air inlet nozzle.

Drawings

Fig. 1 shows a schematic diagram of a prior art plasma etching system.

FIG. 2 shows a schematic diagram of a center gas inlet arrangement in a prior art plasma etching system.

FIG. 3 shows a schematic diagram of a central gas feed guide in a prior art plasma etching system.

Fig. 4 shows a schematic diagram of a prior art modification of the central air induction guide body of fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a diagram showing a first embodiment of a split inlet structure for blocking plasma reverse flow according to the present invention.

Figure 6 shows a first embodiment of the upper air inlet nozzle according to the invention.

Figure 7 shows a first embodiment of the lower inlet nozzle according to the invention.

Fig. 8 is a diagram illustrating a second embodiment of a split inlet structure for blocking plasma reverse flow according to the present invention.

Fig. 9 shows a second embodiment of the upper air inlet nozzle according to the invention.

Figure 10 shows a second embodiment of the lower inlet nozzle according to the invention.

FIG. 11 is a schematic diagram showing the arrangement positions of the axial through holes and the axial non-through holes in the air inlet nozzle of the second embodiment.

In FIGS. 1 to 4:

1. a reaction chamber; 2. a attraction chuck of the sight spot; 3. a wafer; 4. a chamber cover; 5. a coupling window; 6. a coil; 7. a shield case; 8. a radio frequency matcher; 50. an air inlet nozzle; 51. 80. center inlet guide body; 511. 801. upper vertical holes; 512. a middle radial hole; 513. a lower vertical hole; 52. an air inlet flange;

in FIGS. 5 to 7:

60. an upper air intake nozzle; 601. an axial non-through straight hole; 602. a radial bore; 603. an axial edge groove; 604. a sealing groove; 605. a gas homogenizing channel; 61. a lower air intake nozzle; 611. an air outlet;

in FIGS. 8 to 11:

90. an upper air intake nozzle; 901. an axial non-through hole; 902. a sealing groove; 91. a lower air intake nozzle; 911. a radial gas homogenizing channel; 912. an axial non-through straight hole; 913. an air outlet; 914. the axial through holes are distributed with circular rings; 915. the axial non-through straight holes are distributed with circular rings.

Detailed Description

The present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and specific preferred embodiments.

In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the terms "left side", "right side", "upper part", "lower part", etc., indicate orientations or positional relationships based on those shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of describing the present invention and simplifying the description, but do not indicate or imply that the referred device or element must have a specific orientation, be constructed in a specific orientation, and be operated, and that "first", "second", etc., do not represent an important degree of the component parts, and thus are not to be construed as limiting the present invention.

The present invention is described in detail by using the following two preferred embodiments, and the specific size or number used in the embodiments is only for illustrating the technical solution, and does not limit the protection scope of the present invention.

Example 1

As shown in fig. 5, a separated air inlet structure for preventing plasma from flowing backwards comprises an air inlet flange 52, an upper air inlet nozzle 60 and a lower air inlet nozzle 61 which are both made of ceramic materials.

The top of the upper air inlet nozzle is preferably provided with an upper boss, and the bottom of the upper air inlet nozzle is preferably provided with a lower boss. The upper boss extends into the bottom of the air inlet flange. The design of the upper boss makes use of the structure of the upper nozzle itself to radio frequency insulate the inlet passage from the inlet flange 52.

The upper air inlet nozzle is coaxially nested in the lower air inlet nozzle. And the tops of the upper air inlet nozzle and the lower air inlet nozzle are respectively provided with an overlapping flange which is overlapped on the coupling window.

And the upper air inlet nozzle is respectively connected with the bottom of the air inlet flange and the side wall surface of the coupling window in a sealing way through a sealing ring. The specific preferred settings are as follows: the upper surface of the overlapping flange of the upper inlet nozzle and the outer wall surface of the upper inlet nozzle below the overlapping flange are respectively provided with a sealing groove 604 shown in fig. 6, and a sealing ring is nested in each sealing groove.

The upper air inlet nozzle and the lower air inlet nozzle are provided with air inlet channels in a broken line shape. The broken line type design of the air inlet channel avoids the close communication between the air inlet channel and the radio frequency part and simultaneously avoids the channel distance in the vertical direction from being enough for the electronic motion ignition.

The air inlet channel comprises an upper axial channel, a radial channel, a lower axial channel and an air outlet.

As shown in fig. 7, the air outlets 611 are preferably arranged circumferentially along the bottom edge of the lower air inlet nozzle 61, and each air outlet is in an inclined state.

The upper axial channel is preferably arranged along the axial direction of the upper air inlet nozzle, the top of the upper axial channel is communicated with an air inlet channel in the air inlet flange, and the bottom of the upper axial channel is communicated with the radial channel.

As shown in fig. 5 and 6, the upper axial passage is preferably provided with an equal number of axial non-through holes 601 corresponding to the number of the axial edge grooves, the bottom end of each axial non-through hole is communicated with the inner side end of the corresponding radial hole, and the top end of each axial non-through hole is communicated with the air inlet channel in the air inlet flange.

The height of the radial channel is lower than that of the lap joint flange at the top of the lower air inlet nozzle, the lap joint flange can seal the air flow of the radial channel, and in addition, when the plasma air flow in the reaction cavity flows back through the air outlet and passes through the lower axial channel, the plasma air flow cannot contact the installation matching part of the upper air inlet nozzle and the lower air inlet nozzle.

The radial channels are preferably radial holes 602 with the same number as the axial edge grooves, all the radial holes are circumferentially arranged in the middle of the upper air inlet nozzle, each radial hole is radially distributed along the upper air inlet nozzle, and the outer side end of each radial hole is communicated with the top of the corresponding lower axial channel.

The lower axial channel is positioned at the installation matching part of the upper air inlet nozzle and the lower air inlet nozzle.

The lower axial passage is preferably arranged along the axial direction of the lower air inlet nozzle, and the top of the lower axial passage is communicated with the radial passage and points to the bottom wall surface of the upper air inlet nozzle. The bottom of the lower axial channel is communicated with an air outlet, and the air outlet is obliquely directed to the vacuum reaction chamber.

The lower axial passage is preferably a plurality of axial edge slots 603 formed in the bottom outer wall surface (i.e., the lower boss outer wall surface) of the upper inlet nozzle in nested engagement with the lower inlet nozzle. The lower axial passage is preferably in communication with the outlet port via an air-homogenizing passage 605 provided in the outer wall surface of the lower inlet nozzle below the lower axial passage.

Nested clearance can be greater than 0.1mm between upper portion air inlet nozzle and the lower part air inlet nozzle, and plasma is palirrhea in effectively solving prior art, and the gas that leads to discharges in inlet channel, at the inside high charge that forms of inlet channel, when burning out the technical problem of the air inlet guide body to the heat that produces when having avoided plasma to flow backwards makes the upper portion suction nozzle inflation destroy the lower part suction nozzle. In addition, the processing requirement on the air inlet nozzle is not high, and the popularization is convenient.

Further, the diameter of the axial edge groove 603 is preferably not the same as the diameter of the axial non-through bore 601, which would be directly facing in the vertical direction, as will be analyzed in example 2.

The cleaning working principle is as follows: when the system is in a cleaning process, cleaning gas is introduced from the gas inlet flange 52, flows through the gas holes 601, 602 and 603 on the upper gas inlet nozzle 60, is uniform in gas 605, and is finally discharged from the gas outlet 611 at the bottom of the lower gas inlet nozzle 61. When the plasma airflow in the reaction cavity flows back through the air outlet, the plasma airflow enters the axial edge groove 603 through the air inlet channel, the upper part of the axial edge groove 603 is blocked by a solid body, the plasma airflow can impact the solid body wall on the upper part of the axial edge groove 603 at the position, electrons can disappear gradually along with collision energy, namely, the area closest to the air inlet flange 52 with radio frequency power is insulated and uncharged, and a path communicated with a high-power part cannot be formed, so that the upper air inlet nozzle 60 is protected from being damaged by high heat and high radio frequency, and the upper air inlet nozzle 60 and the lower air inlet nozzle 61 are made of ceramic materials and are not corroded by strong oxidizing and strong reducing plasmas, thereby avoiding the generation of particles and the pollution of wafers. Due to the structure and material design of the upper air intake nozzle 60, the fit clearance between the position of the axial edge groove 603 and the lower air intake nozzle 61 can be enlarged, so that the upper air intake nozzle is prevented from being expanded to damage the lower air intake nozzle 61 by the heat generated when the plasma flows reversely.

Example 2

As shown in fig. 8, a separated air inlet structure for preventing plasma from flowing backwards comprises an air inlet flange 52, an upper air inlet nozzle 90 and a lower air inlet nozzle 91 which are both made of ceramic materials.

The top of the upper air inlet nozzle is preferably provided with an upper boss which extends into the bottom of the air inlet flange. The design of the upper boss makes use of the structure of the upper nozzle itself to radio frequency insulate the inlet passage from the inlet flange 52.

The bottom of the upper air inlet nozzle is flat and is preferably coaxially stacked on top of the lower air inlet nozzle.

And the tops of the upper air inlet nozzle and the lower air inlet nozzle are respectively provided with an overlapping flange which is overlapped on the coupling window.

And the upper air inlet nozzle is respectively connected with the bottom of the air inlet flange and the side wall surface of the coupling window in a sealing way through a sealing ring. The specific preferred settings are as follows: the upper surface of the overlapping flange of the upper inlet nozzle and the outer wall surface of the upper inlet nozzle below the overlapping flange are each provided with a sealing groove 902 as shown in fig. 9, and a sealing ring is nested in each sealing groove.

The upper air inlet nozzle and the lower air inlet nozzle are provided with air inlet channels in a broken line type, and the broken line type design principle is the same as the principle.

The air inlet channel comprises an upper axial channel, a radial channel, a lower axial channel and an air outlet.

As shown in fig. 8 and 9, an upper axial passage is provided in the center of the upper air inlet nozzle, the upper axial passage is preferably a plurality of axial through holes 901 uniformly distributed along the axial center circumference of the upper air inlet nozzle, and each axial through hole 901 is provided along the axial direction of the upper air inlet nozzle and penetrates through the upper air inlet nozzle.

As shown in fig. 10, a radial channel is provided in the center of the top of the lower inlet nozzle, preferably a circular radial gas distribution channel 911. Namely, the radial channel is positioned at the installation matching part of the upper air inlet nozzle and the lower air inlet nozzle.

Further, the height of the radial passage is preferably lower than the overlapping flange at the top of the lower air inlet nozzle, and the design principle is the same as that of embodiment 1.

The air outlet 913 is circumferentially disposed at the bottom edge of the lower air inlet nozzle.

The lower axial channels comprise axial non-through holes 912 in equal number to the air outlets, all of which are circumferentially built-in the edge of the lower air inlet nozzle and are used to communicate the radial channels with the air outlets. The top of the axial non-through bore 912 is directed toward the bottom wall of the upper intake nozzle.

As shown in fig. 11, the distribution diameters of the axial non-through holes 912 and the axial through holes 901 in the upper air intake nozzle 90 are preferably different, that is, the diameter of the distribution ring 915 of the axial non-through holes is different from the diameter of the distribution ring 914 of the axial through holes, if the diameters of the distribution ring 915 of the axial non-through holes and the diameter of the distribution ring 914 of the axial through holes are the same, the distribution rings directly face each other in the vertical direction, so that the electrons do not block the vertical movement, and therefore the electrons do not gradually disappear along with the collision energy, but the electrons move violently due to the existence of a large vertical space, and plasma is excited in the air intake channel to destroy the air intake nozzle.

Further, the difference between the radii of the axial non-through hole distribution ring 915 and the radius of the axial through hole distribution ring 914 should preferably be greater than or equal to the maximum value of the diameters of the axial non-through hole 912 and the axial through hole 901, so that the axial non-through hole 912 and the axial through hole 901 do not directly face each other in the vertical direction.

The cleaning working principle is as follows: when the system performs a cleaning process, cleaning gas is introduced from the gas inlet flange 52, flows through the axial through hole 901 on the upper gas inlet nozzle 90, is subjected to gas homogenizing through the radial gas homogenizing channel 911 formed by the lower gas inlet nozzle 91, and is finally discharged through the axial non-through hole 912 and the gas outlet 913 at the bottom.

When plasma airflow in the reaction cavity flows back through the air outlet, the plasma airflow enters the axial non-straight through hole 912 through the air inlet channel, the upper part of the axial non-straight through hole 912 is blocked by a solid body, the plasma airflow can impact the solid body wall on the upper part of the axial non-straight through hole 912 at the position, electrons can disappear gradually along with collision energy, namely, the area closest to the air inlet flange 52 with radio frequency power is insulated and uncharged, and a path communicated with a high-power component cannot be formed, so that the upper air inlet nozzle 90 and the lower air inlet nozzle 91 are protected from being damaged by high heat and high radio frequency, the upper air inlet nozzle 90 and the lower air inlet nozzle 91 are both made of ceramic materials and are not corroded by strong oxidizing and strong reducing plasmas, and therefore the generation of particles and the pollution to wafers are avoided. Because the air inlet nozzle is divided into an upper part and a lower part, the middle of the upper part and the lower part is not in clearance fit, so that the upper air inlet nozzle 90 is prevented from being expanded to damage the lower air inlet nozzle 91 by heat generated when plasma flows reversely.

According to the invention, the gas inlet nozzle is designed into an upper part and a lower part, and the gas inlet channel is designed into a broken line type or an arc shape, so that plasma backflow in the cavity can be reduced, backflow gas is prevented from contacting a high-power radio frequency part, and the gas channel is prevented from being communicated with the radio frequency part in a short distance; the gas channel in the vertical direction is prevented from being far enough from the electronic motion ignition to damage the gas inlet structure; the phenomenon that the air inlet device is eroded by plasma with strong oxidizing property and strong reducing property to generate particles to pollute the wafer is avoided.

Although the preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail, the present invention is not limited to the details of the embodiments, and various equivalent modifications can be made within the technical spirit of the present invention, and the scope of the present invention is also within the scope of the present invention.