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There are several methods of diagnosing the capacitively coupled plasma, such as microwave resonance probe, Langmuir probe, etc, but methods like microwave resonance probe are mainly used for determining the electron density. Moreover, in the diagnosing of plasma potential, the emissive probe has a higher accuracy than the traditional electrostatic probes, and it can directly monitor the potential in real time. However, in the existing work, emissive probe is mostly applied to the diagnosis of plasmas with high density or plasmas modulated by pulsed dual frequency (one of the radio frequency sources is modulated), the experiments on the emissive probe diagonising plasma excited by a pulsed single frequency are quite rare. In this paper, the temporal evolution of the plasma potential and electron temperature with input power and pressure in a pulsed 27.12 MHz capacitively coupled argon plasma are investigated by using an emissive probe operated in floating point mode. The plasma potential is obtained by measuring emissive probe potential under a strongly heated condition, while the electron temperature is estimated from the potential difference between the emissive probe under strongly heating and cold conditions. The measurements show that as the pulse is on, the plasma potential will rise rapidly and become saturated within 300 μs due to the requirement for neutrality condition; while the pulse is off, the plasma potential undergoes a rapid decline and then stabilizes. An overshoot for the electron temperature occurs as the onset of the pulse, because of the influence of radio frequency electric field and residual electrons from the last pulse; during the pulse-off time, rapid loss of high-energy electrons causes the electron temperature to rapidly drops to 0.45 eV within 300 μs, then it rises slightly, which is related to the electrons emitted by the probe. The plasma potential basically has a linear dependence on the change of input power and pressure for the pulse-on and pulse-off time; and the input power has a greater influence on the difference between the overshoot electron temperature and the steady state electron temperature during the pulse-on time. Corresponding explanations are given for the temporal evolution of plasma potential and electron temperature in different pulse stages and under different discharge conditions.
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Keywords:
- emissive probe /
- pulsed plasma /
- plasma potential /
- electron temperature
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Lieberman M A, Lichtenberg A J (translated by Pu Y K) 2007 Principles of Plasma Discharges and Processing (Beijing: Science Press) pp1−5 (in Chinese)
[2] Chang C Y, Sze S M 1996 McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms (New York: ULSI Technology) p329
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[6] Hebner G A, Barnat E V, Miller P A, Paterson A M, Holland J P 2006 Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 15 879Google Scholar
[7] Chabert P 2007 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 40 R63Google Scholar
[8] Lee I, Graves D B, Lieberman M A 2008 Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 17 015018Google Scholar
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[10] Mishra A, Kim K N, Kim T H, Yeom G Y 2012 Plasma Source Sci. Technol. 21 035018Google Scholar
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图 2 连续波激发的容性耦合等离子体中测得的探针悬浮电位(Vf)与加热电流(Iht)的关系图, 测量在气压为3.0 Pa、射频功率为50 W的氩气等离子体中进行
Figure 2. A plot of measured floating potential (Vf) versus heating current (Iht) in a CCP discharge in a continuous wave mode. The measurements were carried out at argon plasma with pressure of 3.0 Pa and input power of 50 W.
图 3 放电气压为3.0 Pa、脉冲射频功率为30 W氩气等离子体中, 发射探针测量得到的数据, 调制频率为500 Hz, 占空比50% (a)悬浮电位及空间电位的时变特性; (b) 电子温度的时变特性
Figure 3. The data measured by an emissive probe in an argon plasma with a discharge pressure of 3.0 Pa and a pulsed RF power of 30 W: (a) Temporal evolution of floating potential and plasma potential; (b) temporal evolution of electron temperature. The discharge was pulsed at 500 Hz with 50% duty cycle.
图 4 不同放电条件下Vp和Te的时变特性(测量在频率为500 Hz, 占空比50%调制的氩气等离子体中进行) (a), (c) 在3 Pa不同功率条件下Vp和Te的时变特性; (b), (d) 在50 W不同气压条件下Vp和Te的时变特性
Figure 4. A plot of temporal evolution of plasma potential and electron temperature: (a) plasma potential (Vp) with power (3 Pa); (b) plasma potential (Vp) with pressure (50 W); (c) electron temperature (Te) with power (3 Pa); (d) electron temperature (Te) with pressure (50 W). The measurements are carried out at argon plasma and the discharge is pulsed at 500 Hz with 50% duty cycle.
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[1] 迈克尔·A·力伯曼, 阿伦·J·里登伯格 著 (蒲以康 译) 2007 等离子体放电原理与材料处理 (北京: 科学出版社) 第1−5页
Lieberman M A, Lichtenberg A J (translated by Pu Y K) 2007 Principles of Plasma Discharges and Processing (Beijing: Science Press) pp1−5 (in Chinese)
[2] Chang C Y, Sze S M 1996 McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms (New York: ULSI Technology) p329
[3] Hopwood J 1992 Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 1 109Google Scholar
[4] Kahoh M, Suzuki K, Tonotani J, Aoki K, Yamage M 2001 Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 40 5419Google Scholar
[5] Lieberman M A, Booth J P, Chabert P, Rax J M, TurnerM M 2002 Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 11 283Google Scholar
[6] Hebner G A, Barnat E V, Miller P A, Paterson A M, Holland J P 2006 Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 15 879Google Scholar
[7] Chabert P 2007 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 40 R63Google Scholar
[8] Lee I, Graves D B, Lieberman M A 2008 Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 17 015018Google Scholar
[9] Goto H H, Lowe H D, Ohmi T 1992 J. Vac. Sci. Technol., A 10 3048Google Scholar
[10] Mishra A, Kim K N, Kim T H, Yeom G Y 2012 Plasma Source Sci. Technol. 21 035018Google Scholar
[11] Samukawa S, Furuoya S 1993 Appl. Phys. Lett. 63 2044Google Scholar
[12] Samukawa S, Mieno T 1996 Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 5 132Google Scholar
[13] Verdeyen J T, Beberman J, Overzet L 1990 J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 8 1851Google Scholar
[14] Howling A A, Sansonnens L, Dorier J L, Hollenstein C 1994 J. Appl. Phys. 75 1340Google Scholar
[15] Wu H P, Tian Q W, Tian X B, Gong C Z, Zhang X Y, Wu Z Z 2019 Surf. Coat. Technol. 374 383Google Scholar
[16] Sun X Y, Zhang Y R, Chai S, Wang Y N, He J X 2019 Phys. Plasmas 26 043503Google Scholar
[17] Imamura T, Yamamoto K, Kurihara K, Hayashi H 2017 J. Vac. Sci. Technol., B 35 062201Google Scholar
[18] Rahman M T, Hossain M M 2017 Phys. Plasmas 24 013516Google Scholar
[19] Jeon M H, Park J W, Kim T H, Yun D H, Kim K N, Yeom G Y 2016 J. NanoSci. Nanotechnol. 16 11831Google Scholar
[20] Liu R Q, Liu Y, Jia W Z, Zhou Y W 2017 Phys. Plasmas 24 013517Google Scholar
[21] Thorsteinsson E G, Gudmundsson J T 2009 Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 18 045002Google Scholar
[22] Maresca A, Orlov K, Kortshagen U 2002 Phys. Rev. E 65 056405Google Scholar
[23] Liu F X, Tsankov T V, Pu Y K 2015 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 48 035206Google Scholar
[24] Xue C, Wen D Q, Liu W, Zhang Y R, Gao F, Wang Y N 2017 J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 35 021301Google Scholar
[25] Wang E Y, Intrator T, Hershkowitz N 1985 Rev. Sci. Instrum. 56 519Google Scholar
[26] Fujita H, Yagura S 1983 Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 22 148
[27] Li J Q, Xu J, Bai Y J, Lu W Q, Wang Y N 2016 J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 34 061304Google Scholar
[28] Sheehan J P, Hershkowitz N 2011 Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 20 063001Google Scholar
[29] Langmuir I 1923 J. Franklin Inst. 196 751Google Scholar
[30] Chen F F 1965 Electric Probes Plasma Diagnostic Techniques (New York: Academic) p184
[31] Sheehan J P, Barnat E V, Weatherford B R, Kaganovich D, Hershkowitz N 2014 Phys. Plasmas 21 013510Google Scholar
[32] Mishra A, Seo J S, Kim K N, Yeom G Y 2013 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 46 235203Google Scholar
[33] Mishra A, Yeom G Y 2016 AIP Adv. 6 095101Google Scholar
[34] Mishra A, Jeon M H, Kim K N, Yeom G Y 2012 Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 21 055006Google Scholar
[35] Mishra A, Kelly P J, Bradley J W 2011 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 44 425201Google Scholar
[36] Liebig B, Bradley J W 2013 Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 22 045020Google Scholar
[37] Piejak R B, Godyak V A, Garner R, Alexandrovich B M, Sternberg N 2004 J. Appl. Phys. 95 3785Google Scholar
[38] Karkari S K, Ellingboe A R, Gaman C 2008 Appl. Phys. Lett. 93 071501Google Scholar
[39] Chen F F, Chang J P 2002 Principles of Plasma Processing (Dordrecht/New York: Kluwer/Plenum) pp31–32
[40] Zhao Y F, Zhou Y, Ma X P, Cao L Y, Zheng F G, Xin Y 2019 Phys. Plasmas 26 033502Google Scholar
[41] Karkari S K, Gaman C, Ellingboe A R, Swindells I, Bradley J W 2007 Meas. Sci. Technol. 18 2649Google Scholar
[42] Welzel T, Dunger T, Leibig B, Richter F 2008 New J. Phys. 10 123008Google Scholar
[43] Bradley J W, Karkari S K, Vetushka A 2004 Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 13 189Google Scholar
[44] Arslanbekov R R, Kudryavtsev A A 2001 Phys. Rev. E 64 016401Google Scholar
[45] Liu F X, Guo X M, Pu Y K 2015 Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 24 034013Google Scholar
[46] You S D, Dodd R, Edwards A, Bradley J W 2010 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 43 505205Google Scholar
[47] Wenig G, Schulze M, Awakowicz P, Keudell A V 2006 Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 15 S35Google Scholar
[48] Poolcharuansin P, BradleyJ W 2010 Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 19 025010Google Scholar
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