PURPOSE: To improve precision and surface flatness, and increase the chucking force of a silicon wafer, by a method wherein, after a flat substrate is thickly coated with an aluminum nitride film, a trench is formed by working the aluminum nitride film itself.
CONSTITUTION: The substrate 2 surface on which an aluminum nitride film is formed is previously flattened by polishing, grinding and chemical treatment, and an aluminum film 3 is formed. Specified trenches 4 are formed by grinding the aluminum nitride film 3. Since the trenches 4 are formed in the aluminum nitride film 3 itself, the working precision of the trench is high, and the surface flatness is excellent. Thereby the chucking force of a silicon wafer is large, and high quality can be realized at a low cost. Further, since the surface which mounts a wafer and is exposed in a semiconductor manufacturing equipment is constituted of the aluminum nitride film 3, plasma resistance is obtained and the life of a susceptor is improved.
AIDA HIROSHI
KITAZAWA KENJI