KR20090011757A - Nozzle and apparatus for coating a processing liquid having the same - Google Patents
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
- B05B—SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
- B05B1/00—Nozzles, spray heads or other outlets, with or without auxiliary devices such as valves, heating means
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- B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
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- B05B1/02—Nozzles, spray heads or other outlets, with or without auxiliary devices such as valves, heating means designed to produce a jet, spray, or other discharge of particular shape or nature, e.g. in single drops, or having an outlet of particular shape
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- B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
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- G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
- G03F—PHOTOMECHANICAL PRODUCTION OF TEXTURED OR PATTERNED SURFACES, e.g. FOR PRINTING, FOR PROCESSING OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; MATERIALS THEREFOR; ORIGINALS THEREFOR; APPARATUS SPECIALLY ADAPTED THEREFOR
- G03F7/00—Photomechanical, e.g. photolithographic, production of textured or patterned surfaces, e.g. printing surfaces; Materials therefor, e.g. comprising photoresists; Apparatus specially adapted therefor
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Abstract
In the process liquid applying apparatus, the spray nozzle is connected to the process liquid supply source by a supply line, and sprays the process liquid on the upper surface of the substrate. The rear suction valve is connected to the supply line and sucks back the process liquid after the injection nozzle is completed. The rear suction display unit may be a scale formed in the spray unit of the spray nozzle for spraying the process liquid, or may be an optical sensor disposed on the side of the spray unit. The rear suction display unit displays the position of the process liquid sucked backward and stopped in the process liquid discharge passage in the spray unit. The back suction position of the photoresist solution in the plurality of jetting parts is uniformly adjusted automatically by the back suction control part manually or by the automatic control part. Therefore, the thickness of the photoresist film may be uniformly formed on the plurality of substrates.
Description
The present invention relates to a spray nozzle and a process liquid coating apparatus having the same. More specifically, the present invention relates to a spray nozzle for spraying a process liquid such as a photoresist onto a substrate such as a semiconductor wafer, and a process liquid applying apparatus having the same.
In general, a manufacturing process of a substrate employed in a display panel of a semiconductor substrate or a liquid crystal display device includes a thin film process for coating a thin film on a glass substrate, a photolithography process for forming the thin film in a desired pattern, and etching the thin film according to the pattern. It can be subdivided into an etching process and the like. By repeatedly performing the above processes, a thin film transistor substrate and a color filter substrate employed in a semiconductor substrate or a display panel may be manufactured.
The photoresist application apparatus used in the photolithography process sprays a photoresist solution through a nozzle connected to a photoresist source and applies it to the loaded wafer surface. The sprayed photoresist solution is cured after a certain time, and the wafer is unloaded and transferred to a subsequent process.
The photoresist solution remains at the end of the nozzle where the injection of the photoresist solution is completed. If the remaining photoresist solution falls on the surface of the wafer, it may cause defects and adversely affect subsequent processes.
In order to prevent this, the photoresist application apparatus includes a suck back valve for suck back operation of the nozzle. For example, the rear suction valve may include a diaphragm therein.
The photoresist coating apparatus processes the rear suction operation of sucking the photoresist solution remaining at the nozzle end into the pipe by using the rear suction valve when the injection of the photoresist solution is completed. Due to back suction, the photoresist solution is sucked from the nozzle end into the tubing to prevent the photoresist solution from curing at the nozzle.
Since the thin film pattern formed on the substrate has a very fine thickness and line width, the thickness of the photoresist film needs to be uniform between the substrates in order to form a high quality thin film pattern.
However, in the conventional photoresist coating apparatus, the height of the photoresist sucked backward in the plurality of injection nozzles is frequently different. In the photoresist coating apparatus, since the injection amount of the photoresist is very small, the thickness of the photoresist film formed on the plurality of substrates becomes uneven when the heights of the photoresist sucked back by the plurality of injection nozzles are different. As a result, there is a problem that the yield of the substrate is lowered by lowering the reliability of subsequent processes such as a developing step.
Accordingly, the technical problem of the present invention is to solve such a conventional problem, and the present invention provides a spray nozzle capable of confirming the position of the rear sucked process liquid.
In addition, the present invention provides a process liquid coating apparatus that can check and control the position of the back sucked process liquid.
In order to realize the above object of the present invention, a nozzle unit includes an injection nozzle and a rear suction display unit. The spray nozzle is connected through a process solution source and a supply line to spray the process solution to form a thin film on the upper surface of the substrate. The injection nozzle is connected to a suck back valve that sucks back the process liquid after the injection is completed. The rear suction display unit is formed in the spray unit of the spray nozzle for spraying the process liquid. The rear suction display unit displays the position of the process liquid sucked backward and stopped in the process liquid discharge passage in the spray unit.
In one embodiment, the rear suction indicator includes a scale formed in the jetting portion of the jetting nozzle. The injection portion is transparent so that the position of the process liquid in the process liquid discharge passage can be visually recognized from the outside using the scale portion. The process solution may comprise a photoresist.
In order to realize the above-mentioned other object of the present invention, the process liquid applying apparatus includes a process liquid supply source, a supply line, and a nozzle unit. The nozzle unit includes a spray nozzle, a rear suction valve and a rear suction indicator. The supply line communicates with one side of the process liquid source to supply the process liquid. The injection nozzle communicates with the other side of the supply line to inject the process liquid onto the upper surface of the substrate. The rear suction valve is connected to the supply line and sucks back the process liquid after the injection nozzle is completed. The rear suction display unit is formed in the spray unit of the spray nozzle for spraying the process liquid. The rear suction display unit displays the position of the process liquid sucked backward and stopped in the process liquid discharge passage in the spray unit.
In one embodiment, the rear suction indicator includes a scale formed in the jetting portion of the jetting nozzle. The process liquid applying device may further include a rear suction control unit for manually operating the rear suction valve to move the position of the process liquid to a designated position on the scale.
In another embodiment, the rear suction indicator may include an optical sensor. The optical sensor may be disposed on the side surface of the injection unit to output the optical sensor signal by observing the position of the process liquid stopped in the process liquid discharge passage. The process liquid coating device may further include an automatic controller. The automatic control unit receives the optical sensor signal and operates the rear suction valve to move the process liquid stopped in the discharge passage to a designated position on the discharge passage.
The spray nozzle may spray a photoresist as a process solution on the upper surface of the substrate disposed on the spin coater.
According to the present invention, there is provided a spray nozzle and a process liquid applying device having the same, which uniformly adjusts rear suction positions of spray nozzles respectively disposed on a plurality of substrates to precisely spray the process liquid to apply the process liquid between the substrates. Uniformity can be improved.
Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Injection nozzle and process liquid applying device
The process liquid coating apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention may be employed in a photolithography process for manufacturing a substrate such as a thin film transistor substrate and a color filter substrate constituting a display panel of a semiconductor substrate or a liquid crystal display device.
The photolithography process includes a process of forming a photoresist film on a substrate, an exposure process of irradiating light to a predetermined region of the photoresist film, and a portion exposed by applying a developer to the photoresist film on which the exposure process is performed. Or developing the unexposed portions.
The process solution coating device may supply a photoresist solution to the substrate to perform such a photolithography process.
1 is a block diagram of a process liquid application apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. 2 is a side view of the nozzle unit according to the embodiment of the present invention.
Referring to FIG. 1, the process
The process solution source 10 stores a photoresist solution as a main tank, and a nitrogen pressurization line may be connected to a side of the process solution.
One side of the
Referring to FIG. 2, the
The
Process
The photoresist solution stored in the process
3 is a cross-sectional view of an injection part of the nozzle unit according to the embodiment of the present invention.
1 and 3, a process
The
Due to the action of the leg diaphragm of the
As a result, the
The rear
The
The
The combination of the
Figure 4 is a plan view of a process equipment for applying the process liquid to the upper surface of the substrate using a process liquid applying apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Referring to FIG. 4, the process facility performs a photolithography process during the manufacturing process of the
The process equipment includes a
The
5 is a cross-sectional view of an injection part of a nozzle unit illustrating a back sucked process liquid.
In order to improve the process efficiency in such a process equipment, a plurality of process
The position of the
The thickness of the photoresist film formed on each
The thickness of the photoresist film may be determined by parameters such as the number of revolutions w of the spin coater for fixing and rotating the
The flow rate of the
On the other hand, the separation distance between the
When the separation distances between the spraying
Therefore, the thickness of the photoresist film can be made more uniform by uniformly adjusting the rear suction position of the
6 is a cross-sectional view of an injection part of a nozzle unit illustrating a process liquid whose position of rear suction is adjusted.
Referring back to FIG. 1, in the present embodiment, the process
The rear
When the user operates the rear
Therefore, in the plurality of
7 is a block diagram of a process liquid application device according to another embodiment of the present invention.
Referring to FIG. 7, the process
The
The rear
For example, the rear
The
The
When the back suction set values of the photoresist are the same in the plurality of process
In the detailed description of the present invention described above with reference to the preferred embodiments of the present invention, those skilled in the art or those skilled in the art having ordinary skill in the art will be described in the claims to be described later It will be understood that various modifications and variations can be made in the present invention without departing from the scope of the present invention.
The spray nozzle and the process liquid coating apparatus having the same according to an embodiment of the present invention may be applied to a device for forming a thin film such as a photoresist film on a substrate such as a semiconductor wafer or a thin film transistor substrate and a color filter substrate. When the present invention is applied as described above, the thickness of a thin film, such as a photoresist film, may be more uniformly formed on the plurality of substrates, thereby improving reliability of a subsequent development process and the like, thereby improving the yield of the substrate.
1 is a block diagram of a process liquid application apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a side view of the nozzle unit according to the embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a cross-sectional view of an injection part of the nozzle unit according to the embodiment of the present invention.
Figure 4 is a plan view of a process equipment for applying the process liquid to the upper surface of the substrate using a process liquid applying apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a cross-sectional view of an injection part of a nozzle unit illustrating a back sucked process liquid.
6 is a cross-sectional view of an injection part of a nozzle unit illustrating a process liquid whose position of rear suction is adjusted.
7 is a block diagram of a process liquid application device according to another embodiment of the present invention.
<Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings>
5: substrate 7: photoresist solution
10: process liquid supply source 20: supply line
30: injection nozzle 35: injection unit
37: process liquid discharge passage 40: rear suction valve
45: rear suction control unit 50: rear suction display unit
60: buffer tank 70: main valve
80: supply pump 90: process liquid filter
100: process liquid coating device
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