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Solution treatment apparatus, solution treatment method and resist coating method

US8375887B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateFeb 23, 2010
Grant dateFeb 19, 2013
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Expiry dateDec 6, 2030

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01L21/67051
  • WIPO fieldSemiconductors
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The invention includes a lower guide unit which obliquely extends downward to an outside from a position closely opposed to a peripheral edge portion of a rear surface of the substrate held on the substrate holding unit, and is formed in an annular shape in a circumferential direction of the substrate; and an upper guide unit which has an upper end surface located at a substantially same height as a front surface of the substrate held on the substrate holding unit, forms a lower annular flow path between the upper guide unit and the lower guide unit for guiding downward together with a gas flow a treatment solution scattering from the substrate, is formed in an annular shape opposed to the lower guide unit to surround an outside lower region of the substrate, and has an inner peripheral surface having a longitudinal-sectional shape curved to bulge outward and extending downward.

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