Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Drying process for high aspect ratio features
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Application No.: US15268162Application Date: 2016-09-16
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Publication No.: US10777405B2Publication Date: 2020-09-15
- Inventor: Roman Gouk , Han-Wen Chen , Steven Verhaverbeke , Jean Delmas
- Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
- Current Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Patterson + Sheridan LLP
- Main IPC: H01L21/02
- IPC: H01L21/02 ; B08B7/00 ; H01L21/67 ; F26B5/04 ; F26B21/14

Abstract:
A method for processing a substrate is disclosed. The method includes delivering a solvent to a processing chamber and delivering a substrate to the processing chamber. The amount of solvent present in the processing chamber may be configured to submerse the substrate. Liquid CO2 may be delivered to the processing chamber and the liquid CO2 may be mixed with the solvent. Additional liquid CO2 may be delivered to the processing chamber in an amount greater than a volume of the processing chamber to displace the solvent. The liquid CO2 may be phase transitioned to supercritical CO2 in the processing chamber and the substrate may be dried by isothermally depressurizing the processing chamber and exhausting gaseous CO2 from the processing chamber.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170098541A1 DRYING PROCESS FOR HIGH ASPECT RATIO FEATURES Public/Granted day:2017-04-06
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