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US 12,322,586 · App. 18/308,368 · Granted Jun 3, 2025

Substrate cleaning method and substrate processing method

Inventor: Koji Nishiyama (Kyoto, JP)
Assignee: SCREEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
H01L21/0209B08B1/00B08B1/12B08B1/20B08B3/022B08B7/04B08B11/02H01L21/67046H01L21/67051H01L21/68728H01L21/68742H01L21/68764
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Patent No.
US 12,322,586
App. No.
18/308,368
Granted
Jun 3, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A substrate cleaning method includes holding and rotating a substrate by a rotation holder and cleaning a back surface of the substrate held by the rotation holder. The holding and rotating the substrate includes holding the substrate by a holder provided at a rotator and rotating the rotator about a rotation axis. The cleaning includes moving a cleaning tool by a mover while pressing the cleaning tool against the back surface of the substrate held by the holder, removing foreign matter on the back surface of the substrate by polishing with the cleaning tool, and further cleaning the back surface of the substrate, which has been cleaned or is being cleaned by the cleaning tool, by a cleaning brush.

Claims (14)

1. A substrate cleaning method for cleaning a back surface of a substrate including:

holding and rotating the substrate by a rotation holder; and

cleaning the back surface of the substrate held by the rotation holder, wherein

the holding and rotating the substrate includes:

holding the substrate by a holder provided at a rotator, and

rotating the rotator about a rotation axis,

a rotation center of the substrate coincides with a rotation center of the rotator, and the cleaning includes:

moving a cleaning tool by a mover while pressing the cleaning tool against the back surface of the substrate held by the holder,

removing foreign matter on the back surface of the substrate by polishing with the cleaning tool, and

further cleaning the back surface of the substrate, which has been cleaned or is being cleaned by the cleaning tool, by a cleaning brush.

2. A substrate processing method including:

forming a coating film on a surface to be processed of a substrate by supplying a coating liquid to the surface to be processed;

supplying a removal liquid for removing the coating film formed on a peripheral portion of the surface to be processed of the substrate to the peripheral portion of the substrate; and

cleaning a back surface of the substrate from which the coating film on the peripheral portion of the surface to be processed is removed by using the substrate cleaning method according to claim 1 .

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 27, 2023
From: NISHIYAMA, KOJI
To: SCREEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 063466/0867 →
Priority Claims (2)
JP 2016-017464 · Feb 1, 2016 · national
JP 2016-175300 · Sep 8, 2016 · national
Continuity (4)
Division 17206238 · Mar 19, 2021
Division 16351846 · Mar 13, 2019
Division 15398119 · Jan 4, 2017
Related Publication 20230268174A1 · Aug 24, 2023
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