IP Library Granted Patent US 9,958,794
Granted Patent B2
US 9,958,794 · App. 14/835,854 · Granted May 1, 2018

Manufacturing apparatus of semiconductor device and management method of manufacturing apparatus of semiconductor device

Inventor: Eishi Shiobara (Yokkaichi, JP)
Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
G03F7/70925G03F7/2004G03F7/70033G03F7/7085G03F7/70591H01L22/12
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Patent No.
US 9,958,794
App. No.
14/835,854
Granted
May 1, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

According to one embodiment, a management method of a manufacturing apparatus of a semiconductor device, the method includes measuring a weight of a pre-exposure substrate including a semiconductor substrate and a resist film provided on the semiconductor substrate, performing an exposure process for the resist film, measuring a weight of a post-exposure substrate including the semiconductor substrate and the resist film after the exposure process is performed, and acquiring a weight difference between the weight of the pre-exposure substrate and the weight of the post-exposure substrate.

Claims (13)

1. A management method of a manufacturing apparatus of a semiconductor device, the method comprising:

measuring a weight of a pre-exposure substrate including a semiconductor substrate and a resist film provided on the semiconductor substrate;

performing an exposure process for the resist film;

measuring a weight of a post-exposure substrate including the semiconductor substrate and the resist film after the exposure process is performed;

acquiring a weight difference between the weight of the pre-exposure substrate and the weight of the post-exposure substrate; and

acquiring a film thickness of a contamination film produced by the exposure process based on the weight difference.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising adding the film thickness of the contamination film to a total value of contamination film thicknesses already acquired.

3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising comparing an updated total value of contamination film thicknesses to a reference film thickness, the updated total value of contamination film thicknesses being acquired by adding the film thickness of the contamination film to the total value of contamination film thicknesses already acquired.

4. The method of claim 3 , further comprising determining that an optical system of an exposure apparatus which performs the exposure process is to be cleaned if the updated total value of contamination film thicknesses is greater than the reference film thickness.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the film thickness of the contamination film produced by the exposure process is acquired based on a relationship between a film thickness of a contamination film and a weight difference between a weight of a pre-exposure substrate and a weight of a post-exposure substrate, the relationship being acquired in advance.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the relationship is acquired in advance for each kind of resist to be used.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the weight of the pre-exposure substrate and the weight of the post-exposure substrate are measured by a weight measurement unit incorporated in an exposure apparatus which performs the exposure process.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the exposure process is performed using a EUV light source.

Assignments (4)
MERGER Recorded Jan 31, 2020
From: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION; K.K PANGEA
To: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 051679/0042 →
DE-MERGER Recorded Jan 31, 2020
From: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
To: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 051762/0119 →
CHANGE OF NAME AND ADDRESS Recorded Jan 31, 2020
From: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
To: KIOXIA CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 051762/0197 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 26, 2015
From: SHIOBARA, EISHI
To: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
Reel/Frame 036422/0834 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2015-002168 · Jan 8, 2015 · national
Continuity (1)
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