V. Plaksin, V. Riaby, Ji Hoon Kim, C. Choi, Heon-Ju Lee
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A novel arc plasma source is proposed, which has low anode erosion rate allowing it to generate nearly spectrally clean plasma flow at the lifetime of 103~104 hours. The temperature of plasma near the nozzle exit is below 100 degC at arc power up to 2 kW. The design and characteristics of the plasmatron are discussed. Vacuum experiments with heterogeneous plasma-chemical processes showed that this device can serve as an effective tool for plasma-chemical treatment at pressures P~100 mbar. As an example, plasma-chemical etching processes for mono-crystal silicon in CF4 plasma and photo-resist on a silicon wafer in air, O2 and CF4 plasmas have been demonstrated