An arc detection system includes a radio frequency (RF) signal probe that senses a RF signal at an input of a RF plasma chamber and that generates a signal based on at least one of the voltage, current, and power of the RF signal. A signal analyzer receives the signal, monitors the signal for freque
An arc detection system includes a radio frequency (RF) signal probe that senses a RF signal at an input of a RF plasma chamber and that generates a signal based on at least one of the voltage, current, and power of the RF signal. A signal analyzer receives the signal, monitors the signal for frequency components that have a frequency greater than or equal to a fundamental frequency of the RF signal, and generates an output signal based on the frequency components. The output signal indicates that an arc is occurring in the RF plasma chamber.
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What is claimed is: 1. An arc detection system, comprising: a radio frequency (RF) signal probe that senses a RF signal at an input of a RF plasma chamber and that generates a signal based on at least one of the voltage, current, and power of the RF signal; and a signal analyzer that receives the s
What is claimed is: 1. An arc detection system, comprising: a radio frequency (RF) signal probe that senses a RF signal at an input of a RF plasma chamber and that generates a signal based on at least one of the voltage, current, and power of the RF signal; and a signal analyzer that receives the signal, monitors the signal for frequency components at a harmonic frequency of a fundamental frequency of the RF signal, and that generates an output signal based on the frequency components wherein the output signal indicates that an arc is occurring in the RF plasma chamber; wherein the signal analyzer compares an amplitude of the signal to a first predetermined amplitude, compares a rate of change of the signal to a predetermined rate of change, and generates the output signal when the rate of change of the signal exceeds the predetermined rate of change and the amplitude of the signal is between the first predetermined amplitude and a second predetermined amplitude. 2. The arc detection system of claim 1 wherein the frequency components include at least one or more of a second harmonic through ninth harmonic of the fundamental frequency. 3. The arc detection system of claim 1 wherein the signal analyzer generates the output signal based on a phase of the signal. 4. The arc detection system of claim 1 further comprising a high-pass filter that filters the signal that is communicated to the signal analyzer. 5. The arc detection system of claim 4 wherein the high-pass filter is a modified Chebyshev filter. 6. The arc detection system of claim 1 wherein the signal analyzer generates the output signal further based on a signal-to-noise ratio of the signal. 7. An arc detection system, comprising: a radio frequency (RF) signal probe that senses a RF signal at an input of a RF plasma chamber and that generates a signal based on at least one of the voltage, current, and power of the RF signal; an analog to digital converter that converts the signal to a digital signal; and a signal analyzer that receives the digital signal, monitors the digital signal for frequency components of the RF signal at a harmonic frequency of a fundamental frequency of the RF signal, and that generates an output signal based on the frequency components wherein the output signal indicates that an arc is occurring in the RF plasma chamber; wherein the signal analyzer compares an amplitude of the RF signal, as indicated by the digital signal, to a predetermined threshold, compares a rate of change of the RF signal, as indicated by the digital signal, to a predetermined rate of change: generates the output signal when the rate of change of the RF signal exceeds the predetermined rate of change and the RF signal amplitude is between the first predetermined threshold and a second predetermined threshold. 8. The arc detection system of claim 7 wherein the frequency components include at least one of the first nine harmonics of the fundamental frequency. 9. The arc detection system of claim 7 wherein the signal analyzer generates the output signal based on a phase of the RF signal as indicated by the digital signal. 10. The arc detection system of claim 7 wherein the signal analyzer performs a fast-Fourier transform on the digital signal. 11. The arc detection system of claim 10 wherein the FFT generates a plurality of signals that represent corresponding harmonic frequencies of the RF signal. 12. The arc detections system of claim 11 wherein the signal analyzer generates the output signal when amplitudes of the signals exceed corresponding predetermined amplitudes. 13. The arc detection system of claim 10 wherein the FTT is a sliding-window FFT. 14. The arc detection system of claim 13 wherein the sliding-window FFT includes a window size between 3 and 5 cycles of the RF signal, inclusive. 15. The arc detection system of claim 7 further comprising a digital high-pass filter that filters the digital signal that is received by the signal analyzer. 16. The arc detection system of claim 15 wherein the digital filter is an infinite impulse response (IIR) filter. 17. The arc detection system of claim 16 wherein the IIR filter is sixth-order. 18. A method of detecting an arc in a RF plasma processing system, comprising: sensing a RF signal at an input of a RF plasma chamber; generating a signal based on at least one of the voltage, current, and power of the RF signal; monitoring the signal for frequency components at a harmonic frequency of a selected fundamental frequency within the RF signal; generating an output signal based on the frequency components wherein the output signal indicates that an arc is occurring in the RF plasma chamber; comparing an amplitude of the signal to a first predetermined threshold; comparing a rate of change of the signal to a predetermined rate of change; and generating the output signal occurs when the rate of change of the signal exceeds the predetermined rate of change and the amplitude of the signal is between the first predetermined threshold and a second predetermined amplitude. 19. The method of claim 18 wherein the frequency components include at least one of a first harmonic through ninth harmonic of the fundamental frequency. 20. The method of claim 18 further comprising generating the output signal based on a phase of the signal. 21. The method of claim 18 further comprising high-pass filtering the signal that is communicated to the signal analyzer. 22. The method of claim 18 further comprising generating the output signal based on a signal-to-noise ratio of the signal. 23. A method of detecting an arc in a RF plasma processing system, comprising: sensing a RF signal at an input of a RF plasma chamber; generating a signal based on at least one of the voltage, current, and power of the RF signal; converting the signal to a digital signal; monitoring the digital signal for frequency components of the RF signal at a harmonic frequency a fundamental frequency of the RF signal; generating an output signal based on the frequency components wherein the output signal indicates that an arc is occurring in the RF plasma chamber; and comparing an amplitude of the RF signal, as indicated by the digital signal, to a predetermined threshold; comparing a rate of change of the RF signal, as indicated by the digital signal, to a predetermined rate of change; and generating the output signal when the rate of change of the RF signal exceeds the predetermined rate of change and the RF signal amplitude is between the first predetermined threshold and a second predetermined threshold. 24. The method of claim 23 wherein the frequency components include at least one of a harmonic of the fundamental frequency. 25. The method of claim 23 further comprising generating the output signal based on a phase of the RF signal as indicated by the digital signal. 26. The method of claim 23 further comprising performing a fast-Fourier transform on the digital signal. 27. The method of claim 26 wherein the FFT generates a plurality of signals that represent corresponding harmonic frequencies of the RF signal. 28. The method of claim 27 further comprising generating the output signal when amplitudes of the signals exceed corresponding predetermined amplitudes. 29. The method of claim 26 wherein the FTT is a sliding-window FFT. 30. The method of claim 29 wherein the sliding-window FFT includes a window size between 3 and 5 cycles of the RF signal, inclusive. 31. The method of claim 23 further comprising digitally filtering the digital signal that is received by the signal analyzer. 32. The method of claim 31 wherein the digital filtering is infinite impulse response (IIR) filtering. 33. The method of claim 32 wherein the IIR filtering is sixth-order.
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