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A technique for evaluating the RF voltage across the electrodes of a capacitively-coupled plasma reactor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2006

V. Lisovskiy*
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Physique et Technologie des Plasmas, École Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France Department of Physics and Technology, Kharkov National University, Kharkov 61077, Ukraine
J.-P. Booth
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Physique et Technologie des Plasmas, École Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France
K. Landry
Affiliation:
Unaxis Displays Division France SAS, 5, rue Leon Blum, 91120 Palaiseau, France
D. Douai
Affiliation:
Unaxis Displays Division France SAS, 5, rue Leon Blum, 91120 Palaiseau, France
V. Cassagne
Affiliation:
Unaxis Displays Division France SAS, 5, rue Leon Blum, 91120 Palaiseau, France
V. Yegorenkov
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Technology, Kharkov National University, Kharkov 61077, Ukraine
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Abstract

We propose a new technique for evaluating the RF voltage across the electrodes of low-pressure capacitively-coupled plasma reactors when direct measurements are not possible. It is based on determining the coordinates of the turning point in the RF breakdown curve and using known values of the electron drift velocity for the gas. The results are in good agreement with those obtained by direct measurements at the driven electrode. Furthermore it allows RF breakdown curves to be determined for different frequencies, giving results that are physically reasonable (coincidence of right-hand branches) and in agreement with other published results. The technique for determining RF voltage we proposed is valid when there is no discharge plasma between electrodes (e.g., before gas breakdown), as well as for negligibly small discharge currents (before extinction of the weak-current discharge mode).

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