EP0222777B1 - Vorrichtung zum saubermachen von quarzrohren, die als reaktionskammern bei der herstellung von integrierten schaltungen verwendet werden - Google Patents
Vorrichtung zum saubermachen von quarzrohren, die als reaktionskammern bei der herstellung von integrierten schaltungen verwendet werden Download PDFInfo
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- EP0222777B1 EP0222777B1 EP86901424A EP86901424A EP0222777B1 EP 0222777 B1 EP0222777 B1 EP 0222777B1 EP 86901424 A EP86901424 A EP 86901424A EP 86901424 A EP86901424 A EP 86901424A EP 0222777 B1 EP0222777 B1 EP 0222777B1
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B08—CLEANING
- B08B—CLEANING IN GENERAL; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL
- B08B15/00—Preventing escape of dirt or fumes from the area where they are produced; Collecting or removing dirt or fumes from that area
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
- F24F—AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR CURRENTS FOR SCREENING
- F24F3/00—Air-conditioning systems in which conditioned primary air is supplied from one or more central stations to distributing units in the rooms or spaces where it may receive secondary treatment; Apparatus specially designed for such systems
- F24F3/12—Air-conditioning systems in which conditioned primary air is supplied from one or more central stations to distributing units in the rooms or spaces where it may receive secondary treatment; Apparatus specially designed for such systems characterised by the treatment of the air otherwise than by heating and cooling
- F24F3/16—Air-conditioning systems in which conditioned primary air is supplied from one or more central stations to distributing units in the rooms or spaces where it may receive secondary treatment; Apparatus specially designed for such systems characterised by the treatment of the air otherwise than by heating and cooling by purification, e.g. by filtering; by sterilisation; by ozonisation
- F24F3/163—Clean air work stations, i.e. selected areas within a space which filtered air is passed
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- the present invention relates to an assembly intended to restore the initial conditions of cleanliness in a quartz tube used as a reaction chamber for the manufacture of integrated circuits.
- the invention finds its application in particular in mass production units of integrated circuits.
- a deposition furnace essentially comprises a quartz tube which serves as a reaction chamber and which must be periodically extracted and treated in order to remove from its surface the deposits which constitute it.
- This cleaning operation or more exactly resetting to the initial cleanliness conditions, consists in immersing the tube in a stirred bath of extremely corrosive chemicals, generally a mixture of concentrated and hot HF and HN0 3 . In this way it is possible to remove the tungsten deposits which are particularly resistant.
- Treatment outside the clean room involves handling the tube to take it out and back into the room, with the risk of depositing dust or pollutants on the tube during its stay outside the room.
- the handling of the tube for its exit and entry into the clean room requires the significant opening of the room and therefore a consumption of filtered air and a pressure drop in the room .
- the present invention relates to a quartz tube cleaning assembly which makes it possible to avoid both the aforementioned drawback and the drawbacks of treating the tube in the clean room and outside the clean room.
- the cleaning assembly comprises a vertical separation panel delimiting, on one side an area in the workshop for manufacturing integrated circuits whose air is filtered to obtain an average level of cleanliness, and of the on the other hand an area in the manufacturing workshop whose air is filtered to obtain a maximum level of cleanliness, area called the clean room, this area being the one in which the main manufacturing operations are carried out and including the manufacturing machines using said quartz tubes, an elongated tank open at the top, located against the panel in the first zone and containing the chemical or chemicals intended to eliminate the undesirable elements covering said quartz tubes, an opening formed in the panel, in which is inserted in a sealed manner a parallelepiped enclosure of elongated shape, arranged vertically and intended to receive a quartz tube and perform on it a spray rinsing and drying, said enclosure further comprising a door opening onto the zone of average cleanliness and a door opening onto the zone of maximum cleanliness, these two doors being opposite one of the other and higher than the length of the quartz tube.
- said tank is fixed, of cylindrical shape and is surmounted by a horizontal shaft of axis coinciding with the geometric axis of the tank, provided with two arches rigidly connected to it, these two arches having a curvature whose center coincides with the axis of the tank, the quartz tube being immersed in the chemical treatment liquid contained in the tank by resting on the two arches, the agitation of the tube being obtained by oscillating the shaft thus causing the oscillation of the quartz tube by rolling on the arches.
- Said tank and the shaft are surrounded by a protective enclosure comprising at its upper part a vapor extraction hood and comprising on the outside of its side part an electric motor mechanism intended to give the oscillation movement to the 'tree.
- the rinsing and drying enclosure is embedded in the panel so as to protrude on either side of the panel by a substantially identical distance; the tank is arranged near the rinsing and drying enclosure and the axis of this tank is arranged perpendicular to the vertical plane of the panel.
- the rinsing and drying enclosure has a substantially flat and horizontal wall separating said enclosure into a lower compartment and an upper compartment, the quartz tube being able to rest on this wall in a vertical position when it is in the upper compartment, said wall comprising at least one opening opening inside the tube and at least one opening opening outside the tube when the latter rests on this wall in a vertical position.
- the rinsing and drying enclosure comprises a rinsing tube having a first end connected to an inlet pipe for rinsing liquid from the quartz tube and a second end connected to a shower. comprising a first part capable of projecting the rinsing liquid radially inside the quartz tube and a second part capable of projecting the rinsing liquid radially on the outside of the quartz tube when the latter is in vertical position inside the enclosure.
- said rinsing tube is mounted so as to slide longitudinally along its axis inside the enclosure.
- At least one of said supports is fixed and at least one of said supports passes through a wall of the enclosure and is mounted to slide longitudinally.
- FIG. 1 there is a set for cleaning the quartz tubes.
- This assembly is mounted in a space corresponding to a clean room in a workshop for manufacturing integrated circuits.
- a workshop for manufacturing integrated circuits.
- machines each intended to perform one of the operations of processing wafers made of semiconductor material in order to produce integrated circuits on these wafers.
- these machines are ovens with an essential piece of quartz tube serving as a reaction chamber.
- the tube is removed from the oven and is brought for repair to the cleaning assembly according to the invention.
- the assembly according to the invention comprises a panel 1 serving as a separation between two zones 2, 3 of the workshop, a zone 2 in which the air is of average cleanliness and the other zone 3 in which the air is of maximum cleanliness and is maintained at a slight overpressure compared to zone 2.
- the two zones 2 and 3 of the workshop are delimited not only by the panel 1 but also by a set of partitions and watertight doors (not shown).
- an opening 5 which is obstructed by an enclosure 6 of rectangular shape, elongated vertically and whose height is greater than the length of the quartz tubes.
- This enclosure 6 comprises a door 7 of height greater than the length of the tubes, this door being disposed on the wall of the enclosure 6 located opposite zone 2.
- the enclosure comprises another identical door 8 situated opposite zone 3
- These two doors 7, 8 can be closed in a sealed manner, and in the same way the enclosure 6 is sealed as well as its connection with the panel 1. In this way, when the two doors 7, 8 are closed, both zones 2 and 3 are isolated from each other, which makes it easy to maintain the overpressure in zone 3.
- the enclosure 6 makes it possible to receive a quartz tube in the vertical position after washing and pre-rinsing in the tank 4 and allows a complete rinsing and drying operation to be carried out on it.
- a quartz tube whose internal surface condition is no longer satisfactory is extracted from the furnace which is in zone 3, also called the clean room.
- the tube is transported to the other zone 2, also called the gray room, by passing it through the enclosure 6 which serves as an airlock, that is to say that the tube is first placed in the enclosure 6 by opening only the door 8, then the door 8 is closed, the door 7 is opened and the tube is removed from the enclosure 6 so it is found in zone 2.
- This tube is then placed in the tank 4, a certain quantity of liquid product intended to dissolve the undesirable deposits on the internal face of the tube is placed in this tank. Then, the tank is emptied and filled with water to pre-rinse the tube.
- the tube is replaced in a vertical position in the enclosure 6 by only opening the door 7.
- the tube is rinsed using a shower that sends deionized water simultaneously to the inner and outer wall of the tube. Then cut off the water supply to the shower and circulate from the bottom to the top of the enclosure dry and hot air which dries the tube. This air comes from the air supply from the clean room, that is to say it is filtered through absolute filters.
- the tube is dry, only door 8 is opened and the tube is removed to replace it in the corresponding machine.
- the enclosure 6 serves both as a cabinet for rinsing and drying the tube as well as an airlock for the passage of the tube from the clean room to the gray room and vice versa, without significant consumption of ultra pure air from the clean room other than the amount of air needed to dry the tube.
- the clean room 3 has always remained overpressure and isolated from the gray room 2, and that the polluting vapors from the tank 4 could not enter the clean room during the tube cleaning operation.
- the sealed enclosure 6 is arranged in the form of an airlock for the passage in a vertical position of the tube 29 between the two zones 2 and 3.
- the tube 29 is placed vertically in the center of the enclosure 6 and thus rests at mid height on a flat and horizontal wall 17, forming a partition in the enclosure 6.
- This wall 17 has a central orifice 22 and orifices 21 distributed around and outside the tube 29.
- the tube 29 is held in a vertical position thanks to two sets of three supports 18, 19 and 20 of which, for each set, one of the three supports 18 is fixed and is arranged horizontally in the extension of the panel 1, the second support 19 is horizontal and passes through the side wall of enclosure 6 to open into zone 3, the third support 20 is in a position symmetrical to that of support 19 relative to the plane of panel 1 and therefore opens into zone 2.
- the two supports 19 and 20 are also mounted sliding longitudinally.
- the device also includes a deionized filtered water inlet connected to a vertical rigid tube 23 in the enclosure 6, sliding longitudinally and connected at its end to a shower in two parts, the first part 24 coming to project the water radially to the inside the tube, and the second part 25 projecting the water radially onto the outside of the tube.
- the water is cut and, by the pipe 26, is introduced into the lower part of the enclosure 6 of the hot ultrafiltered dry air which passes in a movement ascending through the openings 21 and 22 in and around the tube 29 to exit from the enclosure 6 in its upper part by a drain pipe ation 27.
- a drain pipe ation 27 we close the pipes 26 and 27, we open the door 8, we pull out the supports 19, we go up the shower to release it from the upper part of the tube 29, we exit the tube and we close the door 8.
- This part includes a frame 12, possibly Lely fixed to the panel 1 by its lateral part, at its upper part a tank 4 of cylindrical shape, open upwards, with a horizontal axis situated higher than the lateral edges of the tank, and a shaft 11 centered on the axis of the tank 4 and on which two arches 9, 10 are rigidly fixed, which extend radially from the shaft then in the form of an arc of a circle centered on the coincident axis of the shaft 11 and of the tank 4 and with a radius slightly smaller than that of the tank.
- the machine also includes an extractor hood 13 connected by a duct 14 to the air extraction system, and a motor 15 intended to impart to the shaft 11 a periodic oscillating movement.
- the tube to be treated 29 is placed in the tank 4 on the arches 9 and 10. Then the tank 4 is partially filled from a tank 30 by pipes 16 and pumps (not shown), then it is started. the motor 15: the shaft oscillates and drives the tubes through the hoops in an oscillating movement. Then the tank 4 is emptied, then it is filled and the water is emptied in order to pre-rinse the tube. The tube is then removed to bring it into the rinsing and drying cabinet 6, the arrangement and instructions for which have been described above.
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Applications Claiming Priority (2)
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FR8503433A FR2578455B1 (fr) | 1985-03-08 | 1985-03-08 | Ensemble destine a redonner les conditions initiales de proprete dans un tube de quartz utilise comme chambre de reaction pour la fabrication des circuits integres |
FR8503433 | 1985-03-08 |
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EP0222777A1 EP0222777A1 (de) | 1987-05-27 |
EP0222777B1 true EP0222777B1 (de) | 1989-07-12 |
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EP86901424A Expired EP0222777B1 (de) | 1985-03-08 | 1986-03-04 | Vorrichtung zum saubermachen von quarzrohren, die als reaktionskammern bei der herstellung von integrierten schaltungen verwendet werden |
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US (1) | US4756322A (de) |
EP (1) | EP0222777B1 (de) |
JP (1) | JPS62502107A (de) |
DE (1) | DE3664264D1 (de) |
FR (1) | FR2578455B1 (de) |
WO (1) | WO1986005129A1 (de) |
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FR2418034A1 (fr) * | 1978-02-28 | 1979-09-21 | Sagem | Perfectionnements apportes aux appareils pour le traitement de surfaces impliquant l'utilisation d'au moins un solvant |
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US4294271A (en) * | 1979-11-30 | 1981-10-13 | Dexon, Inc. | Apparatus for removing deposited matter from a diffusion tube |
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- 1986-03-04 WO PCT/FR1986/000069 patent/WO1986005129A1/fr active IP Right Grant
- 1986-03-04 EP EP86901424A patent/EP0222777B1/de not_active Expired
- 1986-03-04 JP JP61501452A patent/JPS62502107A/ja active Pending
- 1986-03-04 DE DE8686901424T patent/DE3664264D1/de not_active Expired
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JPS62502107A (ja) | 1987-08-20 |
FR2578455B1 (fr) | 1987-05-07 |
FR2578455A1 (fr) | 1986-09-12 |
EP0222777A1 (de) | 1987-05-27 |
WO1986005129A1 (fr) | 1986-09-12 |
US4756322A (en) | 1988-07-12 |
DE3664264D1 (en) | 1989-08-17 |
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