Spatio-temporal measurements of overshoot phenomenon in pulsed inductively coupled discharge

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/abd16b

Abstract Pulse inductively coupled plasma has been widely used in the microelectronics industry, but the existence of overshoot phenomenon may affect the uniformity of plasma and generate high-energy ions, which could damage the chip. The overshoot phenomenon at various spatial locations in pulsed inductively coupled Ar and Ar/CF₄ discharges is studied in this work. The electron density, effective electron temperature, relative light intensity, and electron energy probability function (EEPF) are measured by using a time-resolved Langmuir probe and an optical probe, as a function of axial and radial locations. At the initial stage of pulse, both electron density and relative light intensity exhibit overshoot phenomenon, i.e., they first increase to a peak value and then decrease to a convergent value. The overshoot phenomenon gradually decays, when the probe moves away from the coils. Meanwhile, a delay appears in the variation of the electron densities, and the effective electron temperature decreases, which may be related to the reduced strength of electric field at a distance, and the consequent fewer high-energy electrons, inducing limited ionization and excitation rate. The overshoot phenomenon gradually disappears and the electron density decreases, when the probe moves away from reactor centre. In Ar/CF₄ discharge, the overshoot phenomenon of electron density is weaker than that in the Ar discharge, and the plasma reaches a steady density within a much shorter time, which is probably due to the more ionization channels and lower ionization thresholds in the Ar/CF₄ plasma.

Keywords: pulse inductively coupled plasma overshoot spatial distribution

Received: 16 November 2020
Revised: 02 December 2020
Accepted manuscript online: 08 December 2020

PACS:	52.70.-m	(Plasma diagnostic techniques and instrumentation)
	52.70.Kz	(Optical (ultraviolet, visible, infrared) measurements)
	52.80.Yr	(Discharges for spectral sources)
	52.80.Vp	(Discharge in vacuum)

Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11675039, 11875101, 11935005, and 12075049) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China (Grant Nos. DUT18TD06 and DUT20LAB201).

Corresponding Authors: ^†Corresponding author. E-mail: fgao@dlut.edu.cn

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Xiang-Yun Lv(吕翔云), Fei Gao(高飞), Quan-Zhi Zhang(张权治), and You-Nian Wang(王友年) Spatio-temporal measurements of overshoot phenomenon in pulsed inductively coupled discharge 2021 Chin. Phys. B 30 045202

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