AVS 45th International Symposium
    Vacuum Metallurgy Division Monday Sessions
       Session VM+TF-MoM

Paper VM+TF-MoM8
Plasma Diagnostics of Magnetic Field Assisted Ionized Magnetron Sputtering

Monday, November 2, 1998, 10:40 am, Room 328

Session: Ionized-PVD: Processes, Properties, and Applications
Presenter: J.H. Joo, Kunsan National University, Korea
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The effects of axial magnetic field generated by solenoid coil has been studied for controlling the capacitive coupling between RFI antenna and metallic chamber wall, which causes severe coil sputtering at high RFI power levels. From OES results, at small magnetic flux density of 8G, RFI plasma showed sharp drop of plasma potential and reduced emission from Cu coil. Also visually the RFI plasma was confined within the RFI coil area. We compared two types of coil materials, metallic and ceramic coated. The plasma potential varied very much with materials and RFI power, which will affect the incomming ion's energy distribution. Also pulsing the sputtering power was studied to control average electron temperature of the RFI plasma, where electrons are easily quenched by heavily sputtered metals. As time dependent measuring of the plasma parameters is not readily available, some metallic films were deposited with different duties and the resulting film properties were measured. There was a big difference in preferred orientations of the grown Ag films. And the effects of ceramic coating on the RFI antenna will be addressed in the view point of plasma diagnostics, electron temperatures, electron densities, plasma potentials, contaminations and the change when it is coated by sputtered metals. Also the impedance characteristics of the RFI plasma were measured by RFZ-60 impedance analyser to study the type of coupling in mixed plasmas of DC magnetron and RFI plasma.