A Switched-Mode Power Amplifier for Ion Energy Control In Plasma Etching

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Plasma etching is an important process in the semiconductor manufacturing process. In order to precisely control the ion energy for better process quality, a tailored pulse-shape voltage waveform is applied to the plasma reactor table. Traditionally, a linear amplifier is used to generate this waveform, which results in poor efficiency. This paper proposes a switched-mode power amplifier as a substitute to the traditional linear amplifier. The electric equivalent circuit of the plasma reactor is introduced and a basic topology for the switched-mode power amplifier is derived. The basic topology is able to generate the required waveform but it has a low efficiency of charging the capacitive load in practice. Therefore, an efficiencyimproved topology is proposed by adopting resonant charging. A prototype is built in order to validate the research. The experiments show that the presented solution yields a significantly reduced input power compared to the normally used linear amplifier in this application.
Originele taal-2Engels
Titel2020 22nd European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'20 ECCE Europe)
UitgeverijInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
ISBN van elektronische versie9789075815368
DOI's
StatusGepubliceerd - sep. 2020
Evenement22nd European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE 2020 ECCE Europe - https://epe-ecce-conferences.com/epe2020/, Lyon, Frankrijk
Duur: 7 sep. 202011 sep. 2020
https://epe-ecce-conferences.com/epe2020

Congres

Congres22nd European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE 2020 ECCE Europe
Verkorte titelEPE'20 ECCE Europe
Land/RegioFrankrijk
StadLyon
Periode7/09/2011/09/20
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