Abstract: A wafer placement table includes a ceramic substrate having a wafer placement surface on an upper surface thereof and containing an electrode therein, a cooling substrate made of a metal-ceramic composite and having a cooling medium passage therein, and a metal joining layer configured to join a lower surface of the ceramic substrate to an upper surface of the cooling substrate. A thickness of a lower part of the cooling substrate below the cooling medium passage is greater than or equal to 13 mm, or greater than or equal to 43% of an overall thickness of the cooling substrate.

Abstract: A member for semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes: a ceramic plate that has an upper surface including a wafer placement surface; a conductive base that is disposed on a lower surface of the ceramic plate; a first hole that extends through the ceramic plate; a second hole that extends through the conductive base; a porous plug that has an upper surface that is exposed from an upper opening of the first hole and a lower surface that is flush with or below an upper surface of the conductive base; an insulating pipe that has an upper surface that is located below the wafer placement surface and a lower surface that is located below the lower surface of the porous plug; and an integrally formed member that is obtained by integrally forming the porous plug and the insulating pipe.

Abstract: A wafer placement table has a wafer placement surface that allows a wafer to be placed thereon. The wafer placement table includes a ceramic substrate having a built-in electrode, a cooling substrate including a refrigerant flow path, a metal joining layer that joins the ceramic substrate to the cooling substrate, and a plurality of small protrusions disposed on a reference plane of the wafer placement surface. The top surfaces of the small protrusions can support the lower surface of a wafer. The top surfaces of all the small protrusions are located on the same plane. In a flow path overlapping range of the wafer placement surface in which the wafer placement surface overlaps the refrigerant flow path in plan view, an area ratio of the small protrusions is minimized in a portion facing a most upstream portion of the refrigerant flow path.

Abstract: A wafer placement table includes an alumina base that has a wafer placement surface on its upper surface, and incorporates an electrode; a brittle cooling base bonded to a lower surface of the alumina base; and a ductile connection member stored in a storage hole, opened in a lower surface of the cooling base, in a state of restricted axial rotation and in a state of engaging with an engagement section of the storage hole, the ductile connection member having a male thread section or a female thread section.

Abstract: A wafer placement table includes a central ceramic base that has an upper surface including a wafer placement surface, an outer circumferential ceramic base that has an upper surface including a focus ring placement surface, and a cooling base that includes a central portion, an outer circumferential portion, and a coupler that couples the central portion and the outer circumferential portion with each other. The cooling base has a central refrigerant flow path that is formed in the central portion and an outer circumferential refrigerant flow path that is formed in the outer circumferential portion. The coupler has an upward groove that open from an upper surface and that have an annular shape, and a downward groove that opens from a lower surface, that have a ceiling surface higher than a bottom surface of the upward groove, and that have an annular shape.

Abstract: A wafer placement table includes a ceramic base having a wafer placement surface on its top surface where a wafer is able to be placed and incorporating an electrode; a cooling base having a refrigerant flow channel; and a bonding layer that bonds the ceramic base with the cooling base, wherein in an area that overlaps the wafer placement surface in plan view of the refrigerant flow channel, a cross-sectional area of the refrigerant flow channel at a most downstream part of the refrigerant flow channel is less than the cross-sectional area at a most upstream part of the refrigerant flow channel.

Abstract: A wafer placement table includes a ceramic base having a wafer placement surface on its top surface where a wafer is able to be placed and incorporating an electrode, a cooling base having a refrigerant flow channel, and a bonding layer that bonds the ceramic base with the cooling base, wherein in an area that overlaps the wafer placement surface in plan view of the refrigerant flow channel, a distance from a ceiling surface of the refrigerant flow channel to the wafer placement surface at a most downstream part of the refrigerant flow channel is shorter than the distance at a most upstream part of the refrigerant flow channel.

Abstract: A wafer placement table includes a ceramic base having a wafer placement surface on its top surface where a wafer is able to be placed and incorporating an electrode, a cooling base bonded to a bottom surface of the ceramic base and having a refrigerant flow channel, a plurality of holes extending through the cooling base in an up and down direction, and a heat exchange promoting portion that is provided in an area around at least one of the plurality of holes and that promotes heat exchange between refrigerant flowing through the refrigerant flow channel and a wafer placed on the wafer placement surface.

Abstract: A wafer placement table includes a ceramic base including an electrode, a cooling base including a coolant flow path formed therein, a bonding layer bonding the ceramic base and the cooling base, a stepped hole penetrating the bonding layer and the cooling base and including an upper hole portion with a small diameter, a lower hole portion with a large diameter, and a hole stepped portion between the upper hole portion and the lower hole portion, the upper hole portion passing through a region in which the coolant flow path is formed, a stepped insulating pipe inserted through the stepped hole and including an upper pipe portion with a small diameter, a lower pipe portion with a large diameter, and a pipe stepped portion between the upper pipe portion and the lower pipe portion; and a connection terminal bonded to the electrode and inserted through the stepped insulating pipe.

Abstract: A wafer placement table is a wafer placement table that includes a refrigerant flow channel through which refrigerant is flowed and includes a top base including a ceramic base incorporating an electrode and having a wafer placement surface on a top surface of the ceramic base, a bottom base on a top surface of which a flow channel groove defining a side wall and a bottom of the refrigerant flow channel is provided, and a seal member disposed between the top base and the bottom base so as to seal the refrigerant flow channel from an outside.

Abstract: A wafer placement table includes a ceramic base having a wafer placement surface on its top surface and incorporating an electrode, a cooling base in which a refrigerant flow channel is formed, and a metal bonding layer that bonds the ceramic base with the cooling base. The cooling base includes a ceiling base made of a metal matrix composite material or a low thermal expansion metal material and defining a ceiling of the refrigerant flow channel, a grooved base of which a main component is made of the same ceramic material as a main component of the ceramic base and on a top surface of which a flow channel groove defining a bottom and a side wall of the refrigerant flow channel is provided, and a metal ceiling bonding layer that bonds a bottom surface of the ceiling base with the top surface of the grooved base.

Abstract: A member for semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes a ceramic plate that has an upper surface including a wafer placement surface and that contains an electrode; a plug insertion hole that is formed as at least a portion of a through-hole extending through the ceramic plate in an up-down direction, an internal thread portion being on an inner circumferential surface around the plug insertion hole; and an insulating plug that includes an external thread portion screwed on the internal thread portion on an outer circumferential surface and that allows gas to pass therethrough.

Abstract: An electrostatic chuck assembly includes a ceramic body having a wafer placement surface that is a circular surface, and an F/R placement surface that is formed around the wafer placement surface and is positioned at a lower level than the wafer placement surface, a wafer attraction electrode embedded inside the ceramic body and positioned in a facing relation to the wafer placement surface, an F/R attraction electrode embedded inside the ceramic body and positioned in a facing relation to the F/R placement surface, a concave-convex region formed in the F/R placement surface to hold gas, a focus ring placed on the F/R placement surface, and a pair of elastic annular sealing members arranged between the F/R placement surface and the focus ring on the inner peripheral side and the outer peripheral side of the F/R placement surface, and surrounding the concave-convex region in a sandwiching relation.

Abstract: A wafer placement table includes a ceramic base, a cooling base, and a bonding layer. The ceramic base includes an outer peripheral part having an annular focus ring placement surface on an outer peripheral side of a central part having a circular wafer placement surface. The cooling base contains metal. The bonding layer bonds the ceramic base with the cooling base. The outer peripheral part of the ceramic base has a thickness of less than or equal to 1 mm and does not incorporate an electrode.

Abstract: A wafer placement table includes a ceramic base, a first cooling base, and a second cooling base. The ceramic base has a wafer placement surface and incorporates a wafer attracting electrode and a heater electrode. The first cooling base is bonded via a metal bonding layer to a surface of the ceramic base on a side opposite to the wafer placement surface and has a first refrigerant flow channel capable of switching between supply and stop of supply of first refrigerant. The second cooling base is attached via a space layer, capable of supplying heat-transfer gas, to a surface of the first cooling base on a side opposite to the metal bonding layer and has a second refrigerant flow channel capable of switching between supply and stop of supply of second refrigerant.

Abstract: An electrostatic chuck includes: a disk-shaped ceramic plate having a wafer placement surface on a surface thereof; an electrostatic electrode embedded in the ceramic plate; and gas grooves that are divided in a plurality of zones when the ceramic plate is seen from above and each of which is independently provided in the wafer placement surface so as to extend from one to the other of a pair of gas supply/discharge openings for a corresponding one of the zones. A pattern in which a gas is supplied to each of the gas grooves provided for a corresponding one of the zones is selectable between a first pattern in which the gas flows from one to the other of the pair of gas supply/discharge openings and a second pattern in which the gas flows from the other to the one of the pair of gas supply/discharge openings.

Abstract: A member for a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes a disk-shaped or annular ceramic heater, a metal base, an adhesive element bonding the metal base and the ceramic heater, an adhesive protective element disposed between the ceramic heater and the metal base to extend along a periphery of the adhesive element, and an anti-adhesion layer disposed between the adhesive element and the protective element, the anti-adhesion layer preventing adhesion between the adhesive element and the protective element.

Abstract: A focus ring placement table includes an annular ceramic heater on which a focus ring is placed, a metal base, an adhesive element bonding the metal base and the ceramic heater, an inner-peripheral-side protective element disposed between the metal base and the ceramic heater and bonded to an inner peripheral portion of the adhesive element, and an outer-peripheral-side protective element disposed between the metal base and the ceramic heater and bonded to an outer peripheral portion of the adhesive element. A coefficient of thermal expansion of the adhesive element is equal to or smaller than a coefficient of thermal expansion of the inner-peripheral-side protective element and is equal to or greater than a coefficient of thermal expansion of the outer-peripheral-side protective element.

Abstract: A wafer placement table includes a ceramic substrate that has a wafer placement surface, a first electrode that is embedded in the ceramic substrate, a first power supply terminal that is inserted from a surface of the ceramic substrate opposite the wafer placement surface toward the first electrode, a first joint that joins the first electrode and the first power supply terminal to each other and a second electrode that is disposed between the wafer placement surface and the first electrode in the ceramic substrate. A linear portion that extends in the ceramic substrate from a position on the first electrode opposite the first joint to the wafer placement surface is composed of material of the ceramic substrate.

Abstract: A wafer placement table is a ceramic sintered body with a surface provided with multiple projections that support a wafer. Of the surface of the ceramic sintered body, the area provided with no projection is a mirror surface which has a surface roughness Ra of 0.1 ?m or less. The projections are formed of an aerosol deposition film or a thermal spray film made of the same material as for the ceramic sintered body.