Applied Materials, Inc.

Jaeyoung Kim

Young Kwon

James Hoffman

Atsushi Kitani

Implementations described herein generally relate to a method and apparatus for processing substrates in a processing system. The method includes identifying, in a buffer chamber coupled to a transfer chamber of a processing system, a first substrate that has been in the buffer chamber longer than a predetermined duration and identifying a first destination chamber of the processing system for the first substrate. After identifying the first substrate, a buffer chamber time-out operation is performed. The buffer time out operation includes suspending movement of substrates from a load lock chamber to the transfer chamber and removing the first substrate from the buffer chamber.

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Jaeyoung Kim