Substrate processing method and apparatus
    54.
    发明授权
    Substrate processing method and apparatus 有权
    用于处理衬底的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:EP1093157B1

    公开(公告)日:2006-12-20

    申请号:EP00122439.3

    申请日:2000-10-13

    申请人: EBARA CORPORATION

    IPC分类号: H01L21/00

    摘要: A substrate processing method and apparatus capable of uniformly supplying a processing liquid to a substrate surface in substrate processing such as development processing without exerting an influence on the physical properties of the processing liquid and without damaging the substrate. A rotating blade is disposed above the horizontally placed substrate so as to face the substrate. The processing liquid is supplied to the surface of the substrate, and the rotating blade is rotated while being kept out of contact with the processing liquid to induce a gas current. The gas current forms a mass of processing liquid having an internal circulating current on the substrate surface below the rotating blade.

    Substrate rotating apparatus
    56.
    发明公开
    Substrate rotating apparatus 有权
    Substratdrehvorrichtung

    公开(公告)号:EP1071118A3

    公开(公告)日:2005-10-26

    申请号:EP00115587.8

    申请日:2000-07-19

    申请人: EBARA CORPORATION

    摘要: A rotor is placed in a space communicating with a processing chamber. Stator-side constituent members of magnetic bearings and a stator-side constituent member of a motor are placed in a space defined outside the space communicating with the processing chamber by a partition provided between the rotor and the stator-side constituent members. Further, a material electromagnetically equivalent to yokes of electromagnets as stator-side constituent members of the magnetic bearings is fitted in portions of the partition where the yokes are located. The partition constitutes a stator housing as a whole. The magnetic bearings include an axial magnetic bearing and a radial magnetic bearing. The axial magnetic bearing is divided into three or more magnetic bearings, which are positioned so that imaginary lines connecting points where the divided axial magnetic bearings are disposed form an approximately regular triangle or polygon.

    Magnetic bearing apparatus
    58.
    发明公开
    Magnetic bearing apparatus 审中-公开
    磁轴承

    公开(公告)号:EP1176325A2

    公开(公告)日:2002-01-30

    申请号:EP01118169.0

    申请日:2001-07-26

    申请人: EBARA CORPORATION

    IPC分类号: F16C39/06

    CPC分类号: F16C32/0457 F16C2360/45

    摘要: There is provided a magnetic bearing apparatus having no necessity of providing a magnetic flux sensor in the vicinity of a supporting electromagnet and no necessity of increasing the number of signal lines in a cable and capable of achieving an advantage similar to a conventional magnet flux feedback type power amplifier in a controller. The magnetic bearing apparatus for supporting a supported member by a magnetic force without contact comprises a current sensor (11) for detecting a control current output from a power amplifier (7) and a displacement sensor (10) for detecting a displacement of the supported member (1).
    A control current detection signal Si of the current sensor (11) and a displacement detection signal Sg of the displacement sensor (10) are supplied to an estimator (20) that estimates a magnetic flux or magnetic flux density generated between a surface of the electromagnet (4) and an electromagnetic target (3) on the supported member (1). An estimated value is fed back from the estimator (20) to the power amplifier (7) that supplies a control current i to an electromagnetic coil (6).

    Electric discharge gas laser
    59.
    发明公开
    Electric discharge gas laser 有权
    气体放电激光器

    公开(公告)号:EP1164667A2

    公开(公告)日:2001-12-19

    申请号:EP01113983.9

    申请日:2001-06-08

    申请人: EBARA CORPORATION

    IPC分类号: H01S3/036

    摘要: There is provided an electric discharge gas laser comprising a housing containing a laser gas; a rotating fan provided in the housing to circulate the gas in the housing; a bearing device for magnetically supporting a rotating shaft of the rotating, the bearing device being provided with a sensor device comprising a sensor for sensing the position of the rotating shaft to generate signals indicating the position of the rotating shaft, and a signal processor for receiving and processing the signals delivered from the sensor to output processed signals; and a control separated from the bearing device and functionally associated with the bearing device to receive the processed signals from the sensor device for controlling the bearing device on the basis of the processed signals.

    Substrate rotating apparatus
    60.
    发明公开
    Substrate rotating apparatus 审中-公开
    Substratdrehvorrichtung

    公开(公告)号:EP1162651A2

    公开(公告)日:2001-12-12

    申请号:EP01113981.3

    申请日:2001-06-08

    申请人: EBARA CORPORATION

    IPC分类号: H01L21/00

    CPC分类号: H01L21/68792

    摘要: An apparatus for rotating a semiconductor substrate is provided which comprises a substrate holder for carrying the substrate thereon, a rotor for directly or indirectly supporting the substrate holder, a magnetic floating mechanism for magnetically floating and supporting the rotor in a non-contact state, and magnetic rotating mechanism for magnetically rotating the rotor. The magnetic floating mechanism and magnetic rotating mechanism are formed as a single integral unit structure. The unit structure includes a first set of windings for generating a magnetic field to provide the rotor with a rotating force, and a second set of windings for generating a magnetic field to float and support the rotor at a predetermined position. The first and second sets of windings are disposed on a single yoke plate made of a magnetic material.

    摘要翻译: 提供了一种用于旋转半导体衬底的装置,其包括用于承载衬底的衬底保持器,用于直接或间接支撑衬底保持器的转子,用于以非接触状态磁浮动和支撑转子的磁浮动机构,以及 用于使转子磁转的磁旋转机构。 磁浮机构和磁旋转机构形成为单个整体单元结构。 单元结构包括用于产生磁场以向转子提供旋转力的第一组绕组和用于产生磁场的第二组绕组,用于将转子浮动并支撑在预定位置。 第一和第二组绕组设置在由磁性材料制成的单个磁轭板上。