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Double-sided wafer scrubber with a wet submersing silicon wafer indexer

US5442828A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateNov 30, 1992
Grant dateAug 22, 1995
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Expiry dateNov 30, 2012

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01L21/67046
  • WIPO fieldSemiconductors
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An embodiment of the present invention is a wet indexer for receiving a cassette of wafers from a previous processing station that have not been allowed to dry. The wet indexer then keeps the wafers submersed in processing solution before and during indexed transmission to later cleaning stations.

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