摘要:
A floating connector has a stationary housing, a movable housing, and a reinforcing member. The reinforcing member is made of a metal plate and is provided with a first plate portion and a second plate portion. The first plate portion is embedded in a guide portion of the stationary housing so as to extend in a depth direction. The second plate portion is embedded in the guide portion so as to extend inward in a width direction from one end in the depth direction of the first plate portion.
摘要:
There are provided a thermal processing apparatus, a method for regulating a temperature of a thermal processing apparatus, and a program, by which a temperature can be easily regulated. A control part 50 of a thermal processing apparatus 1 controls the apparatus so as to deposit SiO2 films on semiconductor wafers W, and judges whether the SiO2 films satisfy an in-plane uniformity. When the in-plane uniformity is not judged to be satisfied, the control part 50 calculates a temperature of a preheating part 23 by which temperature the in-plane uniformity can be satisfied. The control part 50 controls the apparatus so as to deposit SiO2 films on semiconductor wafers W under process conditions in which the temperature of the preheating part 23 has been varied into the calculated temperature, and the temperature of the preheating parts 23 is regulated. When the in-plane uniformity is judged to be satisfied, the control part 50 regulates temperatures of heaters 11 to 15 by the same procedure so as to satisfy an inter-plane uniformity.
摘要:
The present invention provides a processing system, a processing method and a program, which can readily control a gas flow rate. A vertical-type heating apparatus 1 includes a plurality of gas supply pipes 16 to 20 each adapted for supplying a processing gas into a reaction vessel 2 configured to contain therein semiconductor wafers W. For the gas supply pipes 16 to 20, flow rate control units 21 to 25 are provided, respectively, for controlling each flow rate. In a control unit 50, processing conditions including the flow rate of the processing gas and a film thickness-flow rate-relationship model indicative of a relationship between the flow rate of the processing gas and a film thickness, are stored. The control unit 50 calculates the flow rate of the processing gas based on a process result obtained by processing the semiconductor wafers W under the processing conditions as well as on the film thickness-flow rate-relationship model, so as to process the semiconductor wafers W, while controlling the respective flow rate control units 21 to 25, such that the flow rate of the processing gas will be changed into the calculated flow rate of the processing gas.
摘要:
The present invention provides a substrate processing system, a control method for a substrate processing apparatus, and a program for the system and/or method, each of which is intended to achieve effective control for a film-forming amount on processed substrates. The substrate processing system includes a substrate processing unit adapted for forming a film on each of the plurality of substrates; a pattern obtaining unit adapted for obtaining information about an arrangement pattern concerning arrangement of unprocessed substrates and processed substrates among the plurality of substrates; and a memory unit adapted for storing therein an arrangement/film-forming-amount model indicative of influence exerted on the film-forming amount on the substrates by the arrangement of the unprocessed substrates and processed substrates among the plurality of substrates. A calculation unit calculates an estimated film-forming amount on the substrates, in the case of the arrangement pattern, based on the arrangement/film-forming-amount model. Then, a determination unit determines whether or not the estimated film-forming amount calculated by the calculation unit is within a predetermined range. If the estimated film-forming amount calculated by the calculation unit is determined to be within the predetermined range, a control unit will control and drive the substrate processing unit to process the substrates.
摘要:
The present invention is a method of optimizing a process recipe of a substrate processing system including: a substrate processing apparatus that performs a film deposition process of a substrate to be processed according to a process recipe; a data processing unit that executes a calculation for optimizing the process recipe; and a host computer; the substrate processing apparatus, the data processing unit, and the host computer being connected to each other through a network. The present invention includes the steps of: measuring a film thickness of a substrate to be processed that has been subjected to a film deposition process by the substrate processing apparatus; sending a command for conducting a process-recipe optimizing process from the host computer to the substrate processing apparatus, when the measured film thickness is deviated from a target film thickness and the deviation is beyond an allowable range; and in response to the command for conducing a process-recipe optimizing process from the host computer, sending required data from the substrate processing apparatus to the data processing unit, causing the data processing unit to execute a process-recipe optimizing calculation to calculate an optimum process recipe for achievement of the target film thickness, and updating the process recipe in the substrate processing apparatus based on the calculated result.
摘要:
The present invention provides a substrate processing system, a control method for a substrate processing apparatus, and a program for the system and/or method, each of which is intended to achieve effective control for a film-forming amount on processed substrates. The substrate processing system includes a substrate processing unit adapted for forming a film on each of the plurality of substrates; a pattern obtaining unit adapted for obtaining information about an arrangement pattern concerning arrangement of unprocessed substrates and processed substrates among the plurality of substrates; and a memory unit adapted for storing therein an arrangement/film-forming-amount model indicative of influence exerted on the film-forming amount on the substrates by the arrangement of the unprocessed substrates and processed substrates among the plurality of substrates. A calculation unit calculates an estimated film-forming amount on the substrates, in the case of the arrangement pattern, based on the arrangement/film-forming-amount model. Then, a determination unit determines whether or not the estimated film-forming amount calculated by the calculation unit is within a predetermined range. If the estimated film-forming amount calculated by the calculation unit is determined to be within the predetermined range, a control unit will control and drive the substrate processing unit to process the substrates.