WAFER HANDLING APPARATUS AND METHOD
    1.
    发明公开
    WAFER HANDLING APPARATUS AND METHOD 有权
    晶圆处理装置及其方法

    公开(公告)号:EP1454340A2

    公开(公告)日:2004-09-08

    申请号:EP02791341.7

    申请日:2002-11-27

    IPC分类号: H01L21/00

    摘要: A high-speed wafer-processing apparatus and method that employs a vacuum chamber having at least two wafer transport robots and a process station. The vacuum chamber interfaces with a number of single-wafer load locks that are loaded and unloaded one wafer at a time by a robot in atmosphere. Four load locks are sized to allow for a gentle vacuum cycling of each wafer without significant pumpdown delays. The robots in the vacuum chamber move wafers sequentially from one of the load locks to a process station for processing and then to another one of the load locks for unloading by the atmospheric robot.

    WAFER HANDLING APPARATUS AND METHOD
    2.
    发明授权
    WAFER HANDLING APPARATUS AND METHOD 有权
    晶圆处理装置及其方法

    公开(公告)号:EP1454340B1

    公开(公告)日:2006-09-13

    申请号:EP02791341.7

    申请日:2002-11-27

    IPC分类号: H01L21/00

    摘要: A high-speed wafer-processing apparatus and method that employs a vacuum chamber having at least two wafer transport robots and a process station. The vacuum chamber interfaces with a number of single-wafer load locks that are loaded and unloaded one wafer at a time by a robot in atmosphere. Four load locks are sized to allow for a gentle vacuum cycling of each wafer without significant pumpdown delays. The robots in the vacuum chamber move wafers sequentially from one of the load locks to a process station for processing and then to another one of the load locks for unloading by the atmospheric robot.