KR20100012971A - Apparatus for cleaning wafer - Google Patents
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- B05B1/00—Nozzles, spray heads or other outlets, with or without auxiliary devices such as valves, heating means
- B05B1/24—Nozzles, spray heads or other outlets, with or without auxiliary devices such as valves, heating means incorporating means for heating the liquid or other fluent material, e.g. electrically
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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
- B05B7/00—Spraying apparatus for discharge of liquids or other fluent materials from two or more sources, e.g. of liquid and air, of powder and gas
- B05B7/02—Spray pistols; Apparatus for discharge
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- B05B7/1254—Spray pistols; Apparatus for discharge designed to control volume of flow, e.g. with adjustable passages the controlling means being fluid actuated
- B05B7/1263—Spray pistols; Apparatus for discharge designed to control volume of flow, e.g. with adjustable passages the controlling means being fluid actuated pneumatically actuated
- B05B7/1272—Spray pistols; Apparatus for discharge designed to control volume of flow, e.g. with adjustable passages the controlling means being fluid actuated pneumatically actuated actuated by gas involved in spraying, i.e. exiting the nozzle, e.g. as a spraying or jet shaping gas
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- H01L21/67—Apparatus specially adapted for handling semiconductor or electric solid state devices during manufacture or treatment thereof; Apparatus specially adapted for handling wafers during manufacture or treatment of semiconductor or electric solid state devices or components ; Apparatus not specifically provided for elsewhere
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- H01L21/67017—Apparatus for fluid treatment
- 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
- H01L21/67051—Apparatus for fluid treatment for cleaning followed by drying, rinsing, stripping, blasting or the like for wet cleaning or washing using mainly spraying means, e.g. nozzles
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Abstract
The present invention discloses a wafer cleaning apparatus capable of increasing or maximizing production yield. Its apparatus includes a chuck for supporting a wafer; A cleaning liquid supply unit supplying a cleaning liquid for cleaning an organic material formed on a wafer surface supported on the chuck; A gas supply unit supplying a gas mixed with the cleaning liquid supplied from the cleaning liquid supply unit; By including a cavitation nozzle formed to mix and discharge the gas supply unit and the gas and the cleaning liquid supplied from the cleaning liquid supply unit to accelerate the reaction of the cleaning liquid and gas to perform an excellent cleaning process to improve the production yield Can be.
Description
The present invention relates to a wafer cleaning apparatus, and more particularly, to a wafer cleaning apparatus for removing organic substances formed on a wafer.
In general, a semiconductor manufacturing process refers to stacking a plurality of thin films patterned by a photolithography process and a deposition process. The photoresist which is essentially used in the photolithography process is cleaned with a cleaning liquid or ashed after forming the pattern. In a small wafer size, a dip method in which a plurality of wafers are introduced into a chemical tank has been mainly performed. However, in recent years, a large wafer has been cleaned by a single wafer. This is because batch washing may be more productive, but the production yield is lower than that of the sheet type. In the single wafer cleaning process, a cleaning temperature of about 120 ° C. to about 150 ° C. is required, but the cleaning process is performed at a lower temperature because the material is deformed in the semiconductor manufacturing equipment. Therefore, the reactivity of the cleaning liquid is low, there is a problem that a defect of the cleaning process occurs.
An object of the present invention is to provide a wafer cleaning apparatus that can increase the reactivity of the cleaning liquid to minimize the defect of the cleaning process.
Further, another object of the present invention is to provide a wafer cleaning apparatus capable of raising the cleaning temperature to a high temperature.
Wafer cleaning apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object,
A chuck supporting the wafer;
A cleaning liquid supply unit supplying a cleaning liquid for cleaning an organic material formed on a wafer surface supported on the chuck;
A gas supply unit supplying a gas mixed with the cleaning liquid supplied from the cleaning liquid supply unit;
And a cavitation nozzle configured to mix and discharge the gas and the cleaning liquid supplied from the gas supplying portion and the cleaning liquid supplying portion.
Here, the cavitation nozzle includes a ball type nozzle in which a ball is blocked at a center at an end of a body in which a first pipe through which the cleaning liquid flows and a second pipe through which the gas flows is coupled, and the cleaning liquid flows. And a cylindrical nozzle having a plurality of cylinders blocked at an end of the body to which the pipe and the second pipe through which the gas flows are coupled, wherein the first pipe through which the cleaning liquid flows and the second pipe through which the gas flows are coupled. And a pinwheel type nozzle having a pinwheel blocked at the end of the body, and spraying the cleaning liquid and the gas by sound waves at the end of the body where the first pipe through which the cleaning liquid flows and the second pipe through which the gas flows are coupled. It is preferable to include a megasonic type nozzle.
In addition, the cavitation nozzle preferably comprises a heater for heating the cleaning liquid and the gas at the end of the body coupled to the first pipe through which the cleaning liquid flows and the second pipe through which the gas flows.
According to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention as described above, there is an effect of minimizing the defect of the cleaning process by increasing the reactivity of the cleaning liquid using the cavitation nozzle.
In addition, the heater is mounted on the body end of the cavitation nozzle to increase the temperature of the cleaning liquid to a high temperature has the effect of performing a high temperature cleaning process.
Hereinafter, a wafer cleaning apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. While many specific details are set forth in the following examples, by way of example only, in conjunction with the drawings, it is to be understood that this description is made without the intent, except as to aid a more thorough understanding of the invention to those skilled in the art. )shall. Nevertheless, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention may be practiced without these specific details. The method of evaluating the critical dimension of the pattern appearing in the known image is not described in detail in order not to obscure the subject matter of the present invention.
First, in order to more thoroughly understand the function and operation of the embodiments of the present invention described below, this will be described in more detail with reference to FIGS. 1 to 5.
1 is a diagram schematically showing a wafer cleaning apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
As shown in FIG. 1, a
Although not shown, various organic substances including photoresist are formed on the
The
The cleaning liquid for removing the organic matter formed on the
The corresponding material is hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ). Hydrogen peroxide is a compound of oxygen and hydrogen, and it is possible to reduce the exothermic heat with sulfuric acid while retaining the properties of water to dilute sulfuric acid. Therefore, hydrogen peroxide is supplied by the 2nd washing | cleaning
Hydrogen peroxide and sulfuric acid are uniformly mixed in a manifold at a predetermined ratio. The
The cleaning liquid mixed in the
The
FIG. 2A is a diagram showing a ball
As shown in Figure 2a, the ball
In other words, Bernoulli's theorem states that as the velocity of fluid flowing through a pipe increases, the pressure inside it drops. The effect of the venturi tube is that the fluid velocity at two points with different cross sections is inversely proportional to the cross section. At this time, the pressure of the fluid (static pressure) decreases where the speed of the fluid increases. Therefore, the process gas supplied through the
The ball
In addition, the cleaning liquid and the process gas are mixed while bypassing the cleaning liquid and the process gas to the periphery of the
As shown in FIG. 2B, the
As shown in FIG. 2C, the fluid mixed with the cleaning liquid and the process gas is blocked in front of the
Therefore, the ball
3A is a diagram showing a cylindrical
As shown in FIG. 3A, the cylindrical
For example, the cylindrical
As shown in FIG. 3B, the plurality of
Therefore, the cleaning liquid and the process gas passing through the body of the venturi tube may be uniformly mixed while passing through a plurality of pores or pores formed by crossing the plurality of
As shown in FIG. 3C, the fluid mixed with the cleaning liquid and the process gas may flow while being mixed around the plurality of
Therefore, the cylindrical
4A is a diagram illustrating a pinwheel
As shown in Figure 4a, the pinwheel
For example, the pinwheel
As shown in FIG. 4B, the
As shown in FIG. 4C, the vane cross section of the
Therefore, the cylindrical
Although not shown, the
As described above, the
FIG. 5 is a view showing a heater surrounding the outer circumference of the body of the
Therefore, the cleaning solution and the process gas uniformly mixed through the
As a result, the
In addition, it is also possible to form a heater surrounding the outer peripheral surface of the body end of the cavitation nozzle to raise the temperature of the cleaning liquid to a high temperature to perform a high temperature cleaning process.
The above description of the embodiments is merely given by way of example with reference to the drawings in order to provide a more thorough understanding of the present invention and should not be construed as limiting the invention.
In addition, for those skilled in the art, various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the basic principles of the present invention.
1 is a diagram schematically showing a wafer cleaning apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2A is a diagram showing a ball type cavitation nozzle according to a first embodiment of the present invention.
2B is a sectional view of FIG. 2A;
FIG. 2C shows the fluid flow in FIG. 2A. FIG.
3A is a diagram showing a cylindrical type cavitation nozzle according to a second embodiment of the present invention.
3B is a cross-sectional view of FIG. 3A.
3C shows the fluid flow in FIG. 3A.
4A is a diagram showing a pinwheel type cavitation nozzle according to a third embodiment of the present invention.
4B is a cross-sectional view of FIG. 4A.
4C shows the fluid flow in FIG. 4A.
5 shows a heater enclosing the outside of the cavitation nozzle body of the first to fourth embodiments;
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