IP Library Granted Patent US 12699361
Granted Patent B2
US 12699361 · App. 17/921,864 · Granted Aug 4, 2026

Substrate processing apparatus, substrate processing method, training data generation method, training method, training device, trained model creation method, and trained model

Inventors: Seiji Ano (Kyoto, JP); Tomonori Kojimaru (Kyoto, JP)
Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
G05B13/0265G03F7/422H10P70/20
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Patent No.
US 12699361
App. No.
17/921,864
Granted
Aug 4, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A substrate processing apparatus includes a substrate holding section, a chemical liquid supply section, a substrate information acquiring section, a chemical liquid processing condition information acquiring section, and a controller. The substrate information acquiring section acquires substrate information including hardened layer thickness information indicating a thickness of a hardened layer in a resist layer of a processing target substrate or ion implantation condition information indicating a condition for ion implantation by which the hardened layer has been formed in the resist layer. The chemical liquid processing condition information acquiring section acquires based on the substrate information chemical liquid processing condition information indicating a chemical liquid processing condition for the processing target substrate from a trained model. The controller controls the substrate holding section and the chemical liquid supply section to perform processing with a chemical liquid on the processing target substrate based on the chemical liquid processing condition information.

Claims (32)

1 . A substrate processing apparatus comprising:

a substrate holding section configured to hold a processing target substrate in a rotatable manner, the processing target substrate including a resist layer with a hardened layer formed therein;

a chemical liquid supply section configured to supply a chemical liquid to remove the resist layer to the processing target substrate;

a substrate information acquiring section configured to acquire substrate information of the processing target substrate including hardened layer thickness information of the processing target substrate or ion implantation condition information of the processing target substrate, the hardened layer thickness information of the processing target substrate indicating a thickness of the hardened layer in the processing target substrate, the ion implantation condition information of the processing target substrate indicating a condition for ion implantation by which the hardened layer in the processing target substrate has been formed in the resist layer of the processing target substrate;

a chemical liquid processing condition information acquiring section configured to acquire chemical liquid processing condition information of the processing target substrate from a trained model based on the substrate information of the processing target substrate, the chemical liquid processing condition information of the processing target substrate indicating a chemical liquid processing condition to remove the resist layer from the processing target substrate; and

a controller configured to control the substrate holding section and the chemical liquid supply section to perform processing to remove the resist layer with a chemical liquid on the processing target substrate based on the chemical liquid processing condition information of the processing target substrate acquired in the chemical liquid processing condition information acquiring section, wherein

the trained model is built through machine training of training data in which substrate information of a training target substrate including a resist layer with a hardened layer formed therein, chemical liquid processing condition information of the training target substrate, and processing result information of the training target substrate are associated with each other, the substrate information of the training target substrate including hardened layer thickness information indicating a thickness of the hardened layer in the training target substrate or ion implantation condition information indicating a condition for ion implantation by which the hardened layer in the training target substrate has been formed in the resist layer of the training target substrate, the chemical liquid condition information of the training target substrate indicating a condition for the processing to remove the resist layer with the chemical liquid having been performed on the training target substrate, the processing result information indicating a result of the processing with the chemical liquid having been on the training target substrate,

the chemical liquid processing condition information of the processing target substrate contains information indicating any of a concentration of the chemical liquid, a temperature of the chemical liquid, a supply amount of the chemical liquid, a discharge pattern of the chemical liquid, and a rotational speed of the processing target substrate in supply of the chemical liquid, and

the chemical liquid processing condition information of the training target substrate contains information indicating any of the concentration of the chemical liquid, the temperature of the chemical liquid, the supply amount of the chemical liquid, the discharge pattern of the chemical liquid, and a rotational speed of the training target substrate when the chemical liquid has been supplied.

2 . The substrate processing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:

storage that stores the trained model therein.

3 . The substrate processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

the hardened layer thickness information of the processing target substrate contains hardened layer height information indicating a height of the hardened layer in the processing target substrate or hardened layer width information indicating a width of the hardened layer in the processing target substrate, and

the hardened layer thickness information of the training target substrate contains hardened layer height information indicating a height of the hardened layer in the training target substrate or hardened layer width information indicating a width of the hardened layer in the training target substrate.

4 . The substrate processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

the information indicating the concentration of the chemical liquid of the processing target substrate indicates a concentration profile in which the concentration of the chemical liquid changes over time, and

the information indicating the concentration of the chemical liquid of the training target substrate indicates a concentration profile in which the concentration of the chemical liquid has changed over time.

5 . The substrate processing apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein

the chemical liquid supply section includes a nozzle to supply an SPM (Sulfuric acid hydrogen Peroxide Mixture) as the chemical liquid to the processing target substrate, and a mixing ratio changer to change a mixing ratio of sulfuric acid and hydrogen peroxide in the SPM, and

the controller is configured to control the mixing ratio changer according to the concentration profile.

6 . The substrate processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

the information indicating the temperature of the chemical liquid of the processing target substrate indicates a temperature profile in which the temperature of the chemical liquid changes over time, and

the information indicating the temperature of the chemical liquid of the training target substrate indicates a temperature profile in which the temperature of the chemical liquid has changed over time.

7 . The substrate processing apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein

the chemical liquid supply section includes a nozzle to supply an SPM (Sulfuric acid hydrogen Peroxide Mixture) as the chemical liquid to the processing target substrate, and a mixing ratio changer to change a mixing ratio of sulfuric acid and hydrogen peroxide in the SPM, and

the controller is configured to control the mixing ratio changer according to the temperature profile.

8 . A substrate processing method performed by the substrate processing apparatus according to claim 1 , the method comprising:

holding a processing target substrate in a rotatable manner, the processing target substrate including a resist layer with a hardened layer formed therein;

acquiring substrate information of the processing target substrate containing hardened layer thickness information of the processing target substrate or ion implantation condition information of the processing target substrate, the hardened layer thickness information of the processing target substrate indicating a thickness of the hardened layer in the processing target substrate, the ion implantation condition information of the processing target substrate indicating a condition for ion implantation by which the hardened layer in the processing target substrate has been formed in the resist layer of the processing target substrate;

acquiring chemical liquid processing condition information of the processing target substrate from a trained model based on the substrate information of the processing target substrate, the chemical liquid processing condition information of the processing target substrate indicating a chemical liquid processing condition to remove the resist layer from the processing target substrate; and

performing processing to remove the resist layer with a chemical liquid on the processing target substrate according to the chemical liquid processing condition indicated in the chemical liquid processing condition information of the processing target substrate, wherein

in the acquiring chemical liquid processing condition information of the processing target substrate, the trained model is built through machine training of training data in which substrate information of a training target substrate including a resist layer with a hardened layer formed therein, chemical liquid processing condition information of the training target substrate, and processing result information of the training target substrate are associated with each other, the substrate information of the training target substrate including hardened layer thickness information indicating a thickness of the hardened layer in the training target substrate or ion implantation condition information indicating a condition for ion implantation by which the hardened layer in the training target substrate has been formed in the resist layer of the training target substrate, the chemical liquid condition information of the training target substrate indicating a condition for the processing to remove the resist layer with the chemical liquid having been performed on the training target substrate, the processing result information indicating a result of the processing with the chemical liquid having been on the training target substrate.