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Heat treatment apparatus, heat treatment method, and recording medium recording program for practicing the method

US7947926B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateApr 26, 2007
Grant dateMay 24, 2011
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Expiry dateMar 23, 2030

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01L21/67126
  • WIPO fieldSemiconductors
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In a heat treatment method in which a semiconductor wafer is carried into a heat treatment chamber constituted of a heat plate and a cover body covering the heat plate and processed, until the wafer is carried into the heat treatment chamber, an opening and closing operation of the cover body is performed to maintain the accumulated heat temperature of the heat treatment chamber at a prescribed processing temperature.

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