It is an object of the present invention to obtain a vacuum chucking which can vacuum suck a wafer even if dusts attach thereon. The main body of vacuum chuck (101) has a plurality of block grooves (125) on the surface on which the wafer (1) is sucked and fixed, in which vacuum evacuation paths (105)...http://www.google.com.au/patents/US5976260?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5976260 - Semiconductor producing apparatus, and wafer vacuum chucking device, gas cleaning method and nitride film forming method in semiconductor producing apparatus