Vacuum ultraviolet absorption spectroscopy for absolute density measurements of fluorine atoms in fluorocarbon plasmas

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Sasaki, K
Kawai, Y
Kadota, K
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[1] Department of Electronics, Nagoya University
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10.1063/1.118582
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O59 [应用物理学];
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Absolute densities of fluorine (F) atoms at the ground state (2p(5 2)p degrees) were measured in helicon-wave excited high-density CF4 plasmas by vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) absorption spectroscopy. By employing an electron cyclotron resonance CF4 plasma as a light source in the VUV wavelength range, an absorption spectroscopy system with no vacuum windows was constructed. As a result, the density of F atoms was approximately 1 x 10(13) cm(-3) for an rf power of 1 kW and a CF4 gas pressure of 2.5 mTorr, which was one-order higher than the density of CFx radicals and was one-order lower than the density of the parent gas. (C) 1997 American Institute of Physics.
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