Patent attributes
A substrate processing method includes: maintaining an atmosphere in contact with at least a surface of a substrate on which a first material that is a metal and a second material that is a material other than the first material are exposed, as a deoxidized atmosphere; supplying a film forming material, which selectively forms a film on the first material among the first material and the second material, to the surface of the substrate in a state where the deoxidized atmosphere is maintained by the maintaining; performing a surface treatment of the second material in a state where the film is formed on a surface of the first material supplied in the supplying the film forming material; and removing the film from the surface of the first material after the performing the surface treatment.