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Liquid processing method, substrate processing apparatus and recording medium

US10727042B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateAug 4, 2017
Grant dateJul 28, 2020
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Expiry dateMar 31, 2038

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  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB41J2/01
  • WIPO fieldSemiconductors
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A liquid processing method can remove pure water existing within a pattern of a substrate and replace the pure water with a solvent rapidly. The liquid processing method of supplying the pure water onto the substrate, which is horizontally held and has the pattern formed on a surface thereof, and drying the substrate includes a pure water supplying process of supplying the pure water onto the surface of the substrate; a heated solvent supplying process of supplying, after the pure water supplying process, the solvent in a liquid state, which is heated to a temperature equal to or higher than a boiling point of water, onto the surface of the substrate on which the pure water exists; and a removing process of drying the substrate by removing the solvent form the surface of the substrate.

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