EP2953730A1 - Device for wet-treating the lower face of substrates - Google Patents
Device for wet-treating the lower face of substratesInfo
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- EP2953730A1 EP2953730A1 EP14701518.4A EP14701518A EP2953730A1 EP 2953730 A1 EP2953730 A1 EP 2953730A1 EP 14701518 A EP14701518 A EP 14701518A EP 2953730 A1 EP2953730 A1 EP 2953730A1
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
- B05C—APPARATUS FOR APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
- B05C1/00—Apparatus in which liquid or other fluent material is applied to the surface of the work by contact with a member carrying the liquid or other fluent material, e.g. a porous member loaded with a liquid to be applied as a coating
- B05C1/04—Apparatus in which liquid or other fluent material is applied to the surface of the work by contact with a member carrying the liquid or other fluent material, e.g. a porous member loaded with a liquid to be applied as a coating for applying liquid or other fluent material to work of indefinite length
- B05C1/08—Apparatus in which liquid or other fluent material is applied to the surface of the work by contact with a member carrying the liquid or other fluent material, e.g. a porous member loaded with a liquid to be applied as a coating for applying liquid or other fluent material to work of indefinite length using a roller or other rotating member which contacts the work along a generating line
- B05C1/0821—Apparatus in which liquid or other fluent material is applied to the surface of the work by contact with a member carrying the liquid or other fluent material, e.g. a porous member loaded with a liquid to be applied as a coating for applying liquid or other fluent material to work of indefinite length using a roller or other rotating member which contacts the work along a generating line characterised by driving means for rollers or work
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
- B05C—APPARATUS FOR APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
- B05C1/00—Apparatus in which liquid or other fluent material is applied to the surface of the work by contact with a member carrying the liquid or other fluent material, e.g. a porous member loaded with a liquid to be applied as a coating
- B05C1/02—Apparatus in which liquid or other fluent material is applied to the surface of the work by contact with a member carrying the liquid or other fluent material, e.g. a porous member loaded with a liquid to be applied as a coating for applying liquid or other fluent material to separate articles
- B05C1/025—Apparatus in which liquid or other fluent material is applied to the surface of the work by contact with a member carrying the liquid or other fluent material, e.g. a porous member loaded with a liquid to be applied as a coating for applying liquid or other fluent material to separate articles to flat rectangular articles, e.g. flat sheets
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
- B05C—APPARATUS FOR APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
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- H01L21/67028—Apparatus for fluid treatment for cleaning followed by drying, rinsing, stripping, blasting or the like
- H01L21/6704—Apparatus for fluid treatment for cleaning followed by drying, rinsing, stripping, blasting or the like for wet cleaning or washing
- H01L21/67057—Apparatus for fluid treatment for cleaning followed by drying, rinsing, stripping, blasting or the like for wet cleaning or washing with the semiconductor substrates being dipped in baths or vessels
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- H01L21/00—Processes or apparatus adapted for the manufacture or treatment of semiconductor or solid state devices or of parts thereof
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H05—ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- H05K—PRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS
- H05K3/00—Apparatus or processes for manufacturing printed circuits
- H05K3/02—Apparatus or processes for manufacturing printed circuits in which the conductive material is applied to the surface of the insulating support and is thereafter removed from such areas of the surface which are not intended for current conducting or shielding
- H05K3/06—Apparatus or processes for manufacturing printed circuits in which the conductive material is applied to the surface of the insulating support and is thereafter removed from such areas of the surface which are not intended for current conducting or shielding the conductive material being removed chemically or electrolytically, e.g. by photo-etch process
Definitions
- the invention relates to a device for wet treatment of flat substrates by bottom-side fluid wetting, wherein the device comprises at least one wetting station with at least one wetting roller for bottom-side fluid wetting of the substrates to be treated, moving in a transport direction over the treatment roller, and a roller transport system comprising a plurality of In the transport direction spaced transport rollers spaced apart including the at least one wetting roller for transporting the treated, resting on the transport rollers substrates along the transport direction has direction. Furthermore, the invention relates to a use of such a substrate wet treatment device.
- a roller transport system provides horizontal transport of the substrates to be wetted on the bottom from one wetting station to the next and over the respective wetting station.
- the roller transport system includes a plurality of transport rollers arranged one behind the other in the horizontal transport direction, on which the substrates rest and to which the wetting rollers also belong.
- the transport rollers including the wetting rollers of all wetting stations are in these conventional devices with their top at a uniform height level, so that the substrates are always horizontally lying in a horizontal plane across the respective wetting station and away from one wetting station to move to the next.
- the wetting rollers dip with a lower part of their peripheral surface in a treatment fluid bath and promote with their rotating peripheral surface, the treatment fluid to the substrate bottom high.
- the published patent applications DE 10 2005 062 527 A1 and DE 10 2005 062 528 A1 disclose further devices for the wet treatment of flat substrates by fluidization on the underside, wherein the devices there have a plurality of wetting rollers arranged one behind the other in a horizontal substrate transport direction, to which a common surface is applied. associated with the fluidizing tank. Again, all wetting rolls as well as outside the wetting fluid pool arranged transport rollers of an associated continuous Roller transport system all at an equal height level, so that the substrates to be treated in a horizontal plane to the wetting fluid bath and across the wetting rollers, ie on the rotating wetting rollers, transported.
- the published patent application DE 101 28 386 A1 discloses a roller transport system, as e.g. can be used in devices for the treatment of printed circuit boards in chemical baths.
- the roller transport system shown there has a specific arrangement for the storage of the respective transport rollers.
- This storage comprises a pair of lateral side members with U-shaped recesses for the respective transport roller.
- the inner boundary walls act as roller bearings.
- Substrate wet treatment devices of the type mentioned in the introduction are described e.g. used to lower the flat substrates and usually also at the side edges, i. the longitudinal and / or lateral edges, to etch.
- etching stations For this purpose, they are wetted with the help of the wetting stations with a suitable etching solution as wetting fluid on the underside and possibly on the edge.
- silicon wafers that are used to produce solar cells can be etched in this way. In this case, it is observed that in some cases an inhomogeneous etching occurs, in particular to a stronger etching removal in a transport region in the rear wafer area. If the etching process serves to edge-isolate the solar cell wafer, this means stronger edge isolation at the trailing edge compared to the leading edge. In principle, to obtain a more uniform etch result, it would be possible to remove the wafer after e.g. the half treatment path to rotate 180 ° about its vertical axis and so to swap the leading and trailing edges of the wafer and continue the rest of the etching process in this wafer position. However, this would require a corresponding turning station.
- the invention is based on the provision of a substrate wet treatment device of the type mentioned at the outset, with which comparatively uniform underside fluid wetting can be achieved with relatively little effort, so that e.g. In the case of an etching process, a comparatively uniform etching removal in a leading edge region and a trailing edge region of the etched substrates is achieved.
- Another object of the invention is to provide an advantageous use of such a device.
- the invention solves this problem by providing a Substratnass oppositionsvor- device with the features of claim 1 and a use with the features of claim 7.
- Advantageous developments of the invention are set forth in the dependent claims.
- at least one wetting roller is arranged with a height level which is higher by a predetermined height offset than a height level which is defined by a section of the roller transport system adjoining the wetting roller on the feed side. The consequence of this is that the substrates to be treated reach the wetting roller at a height level which is lower in relation to their height level and consequently abut against the wetting roller with their front edge, and then raised therefrom to their level and resting thereon with the substrate underside to be transported by her.
- the use of the device according to the invention enables a uniform edge isolation of the leading edge and the trailing edge of the wet-chemically bottom-etched silicon wafers without the aforementioned use of a turning station for rotating the wafers after a first part of the etching process.
- Further advantageous uses are e.g. in a bottom etching of printed circuit boards and in a bottom side rinsing treatment of wafers or printed circuit boards.
- the device according to the invention comprises a plurality of wetting stations or wetting rollers successively arranged in the transport direction, between which one or more transport rollers of the roller transport system are respectively arranged.
- such a device with a plurality of wetting rollers are at least two successive wetting rollers and the intermediate portion of the roller transport system with one or more transport rollers at the same height level.
- the device thus configured thus combines one or more process sections which have a wetting roller height offset for increased substrate front edge wetting, with one or more process sections in which the wetting Rolling in a conventional manner at the same height level as the feed side adjacent portion of the roller transport system.
- Height-adjusted wetting rollers and wetting rollers without height offset can be arranged in such a device in any desired sequence in the substrate transport direction in order to achieve a desired wetting or treatment effect for the substrates.
- more wetting stations with a height-offset wetting roller are arranged in such an apparatus within an inlet-side half of a treatment path from a foremost to a last wetting station than within an exit-side half of the treatment path. Investigations show that this can, for example, lead to advantageous etching or edge isolation results for the underside etching treatment or edge isolation of solar cell wafers.
- the distance between any two successive offset wetting rollers is greater than a length of the substrates to be treated in the transport direction. This ensures that a substrate to be treated has completely passed through a previous offset wetting roller before it reaches a next offset wetting roller. This avoids front lifting of the substrate by a next offset wetting roller while still resting on a preceding wetting roller farther back. It is further avoided that the substrate is still in a non-horizontal, upwardly inclined upward position, which is caused by the preceding offset offset wetting roller on reaching the rear offset wetting roller. In this inclined position, the substrate with its front edge may not abut the next offset wetting roller.
- the wetting roller height offset with respect to the feed side adjacent portion of the roller transport system is between 0.1 mm and 1, 5 mm. Alternatively or additionally, this height offset is greater than a thickness of the flat substrates to be treated. Investigations show that this quantitative selection of the wetting roller height offset leads to very good, uniform wetting or treatment results, in particular also in the case of the underside etching of solar cell wafers or silicon wafers.
- FIG. 1 is a schematic longitudinal sectional view through a portion of a Substratnassbehand- treatment device with multiple wetting stations
- Fig. 2 is a schematic side view of the device part of Fig. 1 and
- FIG 3 shows a schematic side view of a further substrate wet treatment device with several wetting stations.
- a roller transport system serves to move the substrates S1, S2 to be treated in a continuous process in a horizontal transport direction TR one after the other to different process stations, to which the two wetting stations B A , B B shown belong.
- further process stations for carrying out further treatment steps for the substrates S1, S2 before and / or behind the wetting stations B A B B can be provided in the usual way.
- the substrates S1, S2 may be silicon wafers for solar cell production, alternatively other flat substrates conventionally treated in such continuous plants, such as printed circuit boards and the like, which are to be subjected to fluid treatment, eg an etching treatment or a rinsing treatment.
- the roller transport system includes a plurality of in the transport direction TR spaced successively arranged transport rollers T1, T2, T7, W A , W B with which the resting on these substrates S1, S2 in the transport direction TR can be moved.
- the transport rollers T1 to T7, W A , W B arranged transversely to the transport direction TR, horizontal longitudinal axis and mounted on both sides in a respective roller longitudinal beams, of which in the views of Figs. 1 and 2, a longitudinal roller support 1 from the inside or from can be seen on the outside.
- the respective roller side member 1 is provided from its upper side with U-shaped incisions or recesses L1, L7, in each of which a bearing insert is inserted, which carries a bearing for the respective transport roller T1 to T7.
- a transport roller bearing is known per se, for example, from the above-mentioned DE 101 28 386 A1, to which reference can be made for further details.
- the respective wetting station B A , B B includes a treatment fluid bath and in the example shown, a single wetting roll W A , W B in a conventional, not shown here manner above the treatment fluid bath is angeordet such that it with a lower part of its circumference in the bath dips.
- the wetting rollers W A , W B belong together with the remaining transport rollers T1 to T7 without wetting function to the transport rollers of the roller transport system and are like the transport rollers T1 to T7 arranged with horizontal, transversely to the transport direction TR extending longitudinal axis and end also mounted on the respective roller side member 1.
- the roller side members 1 again have suitable bearing inserts in recesses L A L B.
- Both the non-wetting transport rollers T1 to T7 and the wetting rollers W A , W B are rotated by associated drive means in a conventional manner.
- the rotation of the transport rollers T1 to T7 causes the substrate transport in the transport direction TR
- the rotation of the wetting rollers W A W B additionally ensures that the treatment fluid from the bath at the periphery of the wetting rolls W A W B is taken up and the underside of the Moving substrates S1, S2 wetted over it, wherein the wetting rollers W A W B contact the underside of the substrate on its upper side, for example roll along it.
- the wetting rollers W A , W B are arranged offset in height with respect to a respective feed side adjacent portion of the roller transport system.
- H u Hu + ⁇ ⁇ by the term height level
- a middle section of the roller transport system which contains the three transport rollers T3, T4, T5 between the two wetting stations B A , B B , is at the same height level as the wetting roller W A of the preceding wetting station B A, ie the transport rollers T 3, T 4 and T5 have the same top level Hm as the wetting roller W A.
- the subsequent third section of the roller transport system which comprises the transport rollers T6 and T7, has the same height level Ho as the preceding wetting roller W B.
- Figs. 1 and 2 illustrate a situation in which the rear substrate S1 with its leading edge region V just abuts against the first wetting roll W A , while the front substrate S2 with its leading edge region V from the second wetting roll W B already at its higher level Ho has been raised.
- the height offset ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ of the respective wetting roll W A W B is always chosen to be smaller compared to the feed side adjacent portion of the roller transport system as a radius of the wetting roller W A , W B, preferably significantly smaller, so that the zoomed substrate in a top roll peripheral area on the wetting roll W A , W B meets and can be easily taken and lifted by her.
- the point of impact of the substrate leading edge on the wetting roll W A , W B is at an angle of less than 60 °, preferably less than 45 °, to the vertical measured from the center of the circular roll cross section.
- the roll height offset ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ then remains sufficiently smaller than the wetting roll radius.
- the height offset ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ may also be tailored to the thickness of the treated flat substrates S1, S2, for example, such that it is greater than the thickness of the substrates. To make the height offset clear, it is exaggerated in the not to scale drawn Figs. 1 and 2.
- the height level for the transport rollers T1 to T7 and the wetting rollers W A , W B is set individually by the depth of the associated vertical recesses L1 to L7 in the roller side rails 1. This means that the depth of the recesses L3, L4, L5, L A for the middle transport rollers T3, T4, T5 and the first wetting roller W A is set lower by the height offset ⁇ ⁇ than the depth of the recesses L1, L2 for the two entry-side transport rollers T1, T2.
- the depth of the recesses L B , L6, L7 for the second wetting roller W B and the two last transport rollers T6, T7 is set lower by the height offset ⁇ ⁇ than the depth of the recesses L3, L4, L5 for the transport rollers T3, T4, T5 of the front adjacent section of the roller transport system.
- L A , L B similarly configured bearing inserts are inserted.
- all recesses with the same depth are introduced into the roller side members, and differently configured bearing inserts with a corresponding height offset of the storage level provided by them are used to adjust the height offset for the transport rollers T1 to T7 or the wetting rollers W A , W B to realize.
- the degree of wetting for the substrate S1, S2 can be intensified or homogenized with the treatment fluid.
- leading edge region V of the substrate S1, S2 comes directly into contact with the wetting roll W A , W B and remains in contact with it over a certain path of movement, namely from the point of abutment on the wetting roll W A , W B through to reach the uppermost point, ie the turning point, of the wetting roll W A W B.
- the slight skew of the treated flat substrates caused by the lifting of the leading edge region as it traverses a respective upwardly offset wetting roller has a further advantage, especially in the wet wet etching of silicon wafers.
- a fluid mask for example a water mask, is placed on the upper side of the substrate. to protect this side from the influence of the lower side etching fluid.
- the slight lifting of the substrates after reaching a height-offset wetting roller reliably prevents a part of the top-side fluid mask from reaching this wetting roller, where it undesirably dilutes the treatment fluid.
- the upper-side fluid mask can run in the direction of the substrate trailing edge.
- Figs. 1 and 2 show a device part having two wetting stations B A , B B with height-wetting wetting rollers W A , W B
- the invention also includes devices having only one wetting station with wetting roller height offset or more as having two such wetting stations.
- each wetting station B A , B B includes a single wetting roll W A , W B.
- the respective wetting station may also have a plurality of wetting rollers, for example immersed in a common treatment fluid bath, all or only an arbitrary selectable part of the plurality of wetting rollers can be arranged with height offset.
- the distance between each two successive wetting rollers with height offset is greater than a length of the substrates to be treated in the transport direction TR. This ensures that after leaving the front wetting roller, the substrates first again assume their exactly horizontal position on the transport roller (s) between the two offset wetting rollers before they reach the subsequent wetting roller with height offset.
- FIG. 3 schematically shows a substrate wet treatment device, such as may be used for wet etching of solar cell silicon wafers on the underside, for example.
- the device in its process section of interest here, shown in FIG. 3, the device has twelve wetting stations B 1 to B 12 in the manner of the wetting stations B A , B B each with a wetting roller W 1 to W 12 and a roller transport system explained above with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2 in the manner of the above to Figs. 1 and 2 explained roller transport system, wherein the non-wetting transport rollers are omitted in Fig. 3 for clarity.
- the transport rollers including the wetting rollers W1 to W12 are, as explained above for the devices of FIGS.
- roller side members 1 and 2 mounted on lateral roller side members, of which a longitudinal roller carrier 1 'can be seen in the view of FIG.
- the roller side members 1 ' are in turn provided with vertically introduced from their top images or incisions, are inserted into the appropriate bearing inserts for the transport rollers.
- the cuts in the Roll longitudinal members 1 'and the inserts inserted therein designed so that the respective stored transport roller occupies the desired height level.
- the process part shown in FIG. 3 of the apparatus for the wet treatment of flat substrates on the underside has a plurality of successive treatment sections P1 to P5, each of which includes one or more of the wetting stations B1 to B12 whose wetting rollers are at the same height level and opposite to one another Wetting rollers height level of the respective preceding treatment section are raised.
- the various height levels are represented by corresponding numerical data for the associated treatment sections P1 to P5 and to the adjacent sections E, Z of the roller transport system.
- a first treatment section P1 including the first wetting station B1 connects to an entrance-side section E of the roller transport system.
- the transport rollers in the entry-side section E are at a height level lowered by -1.25 mm.
- the height level of the immediately following wetting roller W1 of the first wetting station B1 as well as the subsequent transport rollers in the first treatment section P1 is raised by 0.5 mm, ie it is -0.75 mm. This corresponds to the height offset ⁇ ⁇ in the example of FIGS. 1 and 2.
- the first treatment section P1 is followed by a second treatment section P2, which comprises the next three wetting stations B2, B3, B4 and their height level for the wetting rollers W2, W3 , W4 and the respective subsequent transport rollers are in turn offset by 0.5 mm with respect to the height level of the first treatment section P1 upwards, that is to -0.25 mm.
- the height offset of its wetting roller W2 relative to the feed roller section adjoining the feed side with the transport rollers of the first treatment section P1 is again present. This corresponds to the height offset AH B of the second wetting station B B in the example of FIGS. 1 and 2.
- the second treatment section P2 is followed, in the transport direction TR, by a third treatment section P3 which comprises the two next wetting stations B5, B6 and is again offset in its height level by 0.5 mm from that of the preceding treatment section P2, ie upwards +0.25 mm.
- This results in the height offset for the wetting roller W5 of the front wetting station B5 with respect to the preceding transport rollers of the treatment section P2.
- the third treatment section P3 is followed by a fourth treatment section P4 with the next three wetting stations B7, B8, B9 and a fifth treatment section thereon P5 with the last three wetting stations B10, B1 1, B12, in turn, each with a height offset of 0.5 mm upwards relative to the preceding treatment section.
- the last treatment section P5 is followed by an exit-side section Z of the roll transport system in which the substrate transport height level is stepped in three stages from at least one transport roller from the raised level +1, 25 mm of the last treatment section P5 to the zero reference level of 0 mm Intermediate levels +1, 0 mm and +0.5 mm is reduced.
- the exit-side section Z of the roller transport system in FIG. 3 can be, for example, a supply section of a subsequent rinsing module in which any treatment fluid remaining on the substrates is rinsed off.
- the following process flow results for the treated with the plant part of Fig. 3 substrates.
- the substrates are introduced in the entry-side section E of the roller transport system at the lowered height level of -1, 25 mm to the first, contrast by 0.5 mm upwardly offset wetting roller W1 and wetted by this in the Substratvorder- tenten area due to the height offset, as above explained.
- the substrate passes over the wetting roller W1 and is thus wetted on its underside for the first time with the treatment fluid. It then arrives at the second wetting roller W2, which in turn is offset in height, where it is wetted on its underside for a second time, again with the leading edge wetting reinforced by the vertical offset.
- the substrate usually passes over the next two wetting rollers W3 and W4 in order to be wetted there a third and fourth time in the conventional manner without wetting roller height offset.
- the substrate then passes to the fifth wetting roller W5, which is again offset in height, where it undergoes reinforced front edge wetting for the third time, in order subsequently to be wetted once more by the wetting roller W6, which is not offset in height relative to the directly preceding transport rollers without reinforced front edge wetting.
- the substrate passes to the seventh wetting roller W7, which in turn is offset in height, where it is wetted a fourth time with reinforced leading edge wetting. This is followed by two wetting by the next non-offset wetting rollers W8 and W9.
- the substrate passes to the last offset wetting roller W10 at the beginning of the fifth treatment section P5 and undergoes wetting there for the last time with enhanced leading edge wetting. This is followed by two normal wetting without reinforced front edge wetting by the wetting rollers W1 1 and W12.
- the wetting treatment is completed and the substrate passes through the two intermediate stages on the exit side Z of the roller transport system from the elevated level +1, 25 mm to the reference level of 0 mm.
- a first half of the treatment path extending from the first wetting station B1 to the last wetting station B12 in the transport direction TR more wetting stations with offset wetting rollers are provided than within the second, exit-side half , Specifically, in the first half comprising the first three treatment sections P1, P2, P3, there are three wetting stations B1, B2, B5 with offset wetting rollers W1, W2, W5 and only two wetting stations B7, B10 with offset wetting rollers W7, W10 in the exit side half intended. This promotes early increased wetting of the substrate leading edge region over the course of the treatment period, which extends for the respective substrate in terms of time from reaching the first wetting roll W1 until leaving the last wetting roll W12.
- the sequence of wetting stations with offset wetting roller and those with non-offset wetting roller can be determined suitably matched to the particular application in any suitable manner.
- the height offset is always 0.5 mm, but in alternative embodiments of the invention, it may have any other value, for example in the range between 0.1 mm and 1, 5 mm, and he can if necessary in particular different wetting stations along the treatment path are also set differently.
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