Vertical Marangoni Wafer Handler

Abstract

A vertical Marangoni wafer processing device, comprising: a drive mechanism for driving the wafer to rotate vertically, a supply arm for transporting fluid, and a box body, the supply arm can swing vertically and is arranged on A nozzle assembly at its free end supplies fluid onto the wafer; it is characterized in that the nozzle assembly includes a first nozzle arm and a second nozzle arm with nozzles, the first nozzle arm and the second nozzle arm along the The supply arm is extended and rotatably fixedly arranged at the free end of the supply arm.

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technical field [0001] The present application relates to the field of semiconductor manufacturing equipment, in particular to a vertical Marangoni wafer processing device. Background technique [0002] Wafer manufacturing is a key link that restricts the development of the VLSI (chip, IC, Integrated Circuit Chip) industry. As the feature size of integrated circuits continues to shrink, the surface quality requirements of wafers are getting higher and higher, so the control of defect size and number in the wafer manufacturing process is becoming more and more stringent. In the logic chip manufacturing process, when the feature size develops from 14nm to 7nm, the control range of pollutants above 19nm is also reduced from 100 to 50, gradually approaching the limits of cleaning technology and measurement technology. Contaminants are an important factor that causes the quality of the wafer surface to deteriorate or even produce defects. Therefore, cleaning technology is requir...

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[0005] However, the common problems of SRD and Marangoni drying in the prior art include large equipment volume, complex structure, high-speed backsplash, etc.; for example, the chamber of the Marangoni drying equipment of US Patent No. The body needs to be composed of a vertical receiving part and an inclined pulling part, so it takes up a lot of space and is difficult to combine and integrate; for SRD, it needs horizontal high-speed rotation to provide a large centrifugal force to drive off the liquid on the wafer surface, and the over High speed may cause a series of problems such as backsplash

It should be pointed out that although there is a horizontal Marangoni drying technology, since the wafer is generally transported vertically in the CMP equipment, the wafer is turned from a vertical state to a horizontal state before cleaning and drying. And flipping the wafer from a horizontal state to a vertical state after cleaning and drying will not only affect the efficiency of wafer transfer operations, but may also cause a series of problems such as wafer damage

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